Posted on 11/23/2017 4:48:23 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
The Pilgrims gave thanks for a change in weather, but didn’t thrive until they changed, too.
Every American schoolchild learns a version of the first Thanksgiving, a story half-legend and half-history: After the Pilgrims spent a freezing first winter in Plymouth, friendly Native Americans helped them learn to harvest the bounty of their new country the next year.
The story gets more interesting when we look at the first mention of an actual “thanksgiving” at Plymouth. Less than two years after that 1621 feast, the colony faced drought and famine.
Advances in paleoclimatology, the science of reconstructing past climates from records such as tree rings and lake sediments, show how America in the late 1500s and early 1600s was getting cooler and more prone to drought. The trend was part of a global pattern sometimes called the Little Ice Age.
We can look forward to the weather cooling down across America, and some of us — though probably not those in Houston or Puerto Rico — can perhaps begin to forget about the record heat waves, hurricanes and floods of the past months. Most of us can give thanks that we made it through another summer of climate shock relatively unscathed.
But the climate fluctuations of the Little Ice Age were only a fraction of the climate change projected under most global warming scenarios. We can’t let the reprieve of fall and winter turn our attention away from the climate realities ahead and the need to adapt, even as we give thanks for gentler weather now.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Wow. They are energizer bunnies when it comes to jamming every story into some pre-set liberal mold.
The fact is, the early famine had a lot more to do with attempts at communal agriculture than it did with “climate change”.
Liberalism is a mental disease.
Liberalism is much more than a mental disease. It’s a parasite sucking the life out of our once great society. If continued unchecked it will destroy every one of our treasured institutions: the military, education, religion and our Republic. Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!
Shudda set more fires to get GW going sooner!
THE FIRST THANKSGIVING PROCLAMATION
Whereas it is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God and obey His will, to be grateful for His benefits, and humbly implore His protection, aid and favors...
Now therefore, I do recommend and assign Thursday, the 26th day of November next, to the service of that great and glorious Being, who is the Beneficient Author of all the good that was, that is, or that will be that we may then all unite in rendering unto Him our sincere and humble thanks for His kind care and protection of the people of this country, and for all the great and various favors which He has been pleased to confer upon us.
George Washington, 1789
Wha-choo expect from the WaPo? It was crap before Bezos bought it, and the crap level has only gotten worse after the purchase.
Talk about fake news. Go back and read Bradford’s own words...the libs have changed history once again.
Bump to read at dinner
Someone didn’t get the memo.
So we’re calling it climate “shock” now? How frightening! /s
What a beautiful statement; thank you, President Washington.
And thank you, elpadre, for posting that. We need to remember that America is a Judeo-Christian country and the Founders were men of faith. Faith is the compass that should guide political decisions.
APATT
(All Propaganda All The Time)
So we’re calling it climate “shock” now? How frightening! /s
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Wait till they come up with a clever and catchy way to fuse the words ‘climate’ and ‘apocalypse’. Then we’ll REALLY be scared!!!
Great story. Too bad there were no climate scientists around.
It can teach us the pilgrims did not have any spare time to think up tho crap.
Can you imagine if Trump would tweet this?
Another ice age, global warming, climate change, climate disruption and now climate shock. They have so many words for bullshit in the communist dictionary.
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