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Climate change rocked cradles of civilisation
University of East Anglia ^
| 7-Sep-2006
| Simon Dunford
Posted on 09/07/2006 5:24:26 AM PDT by Pharmboy
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Let's see if this thread can avoid somebody posting "Bush's fault."
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posted on
09/07/2006 5:24:26 AM PDT
by
Pharmboy
To: blam; SunkenCiv; aculeus
Interesting hypothesis, eh? Also interesting how they use the "s" and the zed in civilis(z)e within the same article.
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posted on
09/07/2006 5:26:01 AM PDT
by
Pharmboy
(Every single day provides at least one new reason to hate the mainstream media...)
To: Pharmboy
These first large urban, state-level societies emerged because diminishing resources forced previously transient people into close proximity in areas where water, pasture and productive land was still available. Translation: Change can bring beneficial results to a society.
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posted on
09/07/2006 5:26:52 AM PDT
by
neodad
(USS Vincennes (CG-49) Freedom's Fortress)
To: All
But...but...Al Gore told me changes in Earth's environment are caused by people, not natural fluctuations. How can this be?
To: Pharmboy
Clearly this is undisputed proof that they had SUVs between 6000 and 4000 years ago. I wonder how many miles per gallon that heap of rocks Fred Flintstone drove got. That eco-criminal should have been jailed.
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posted on
09/07/2006 5:31:06 AM PDT
by
rhombus
To: Pharmboy
I give it until the fifteenth post.
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posted on
09/07/2006 5:31:35 AM PDT
by
satchmodog9
(Most people stand on the tracks and never even hear the train coming)
To: satchmodog9
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posted on
09/07/2006 5:33:45 AM PDT
by
TYVets
(God so loved the world he didn't send a committee)
To: Pharmboy
Time for the obligatory "Humans did not cause Global Warming" slide
![](http://www.placergop.org/_content/gw.jpg)
Note: Data provided by N.O.A.A
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posted on
09/07/2006 5:34:37 AM PDT
by
Paloma_55
(I may be a hateful bigot, but I still love you)
To: Pharmboy
But, but, but the only possible source of climate change is eeeevil conservative Americans </sarcasm>.
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posted on
09/07/2006 5:36:34 AM PDT
by
steveegg
(Let's make the deeply-saddened Head KOmmie deeply soddened in Nov. - deny the 'RATs the election)
To: rhombus
Very funny and well put. Ha.
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posted on
09/07/2006 5:37:18 AM PDT
by
Pharmboy
(Every single day provides at least one new reason to hate the mainstream media...)
To: Pharmboy
An older and similar version with an 'S' in civilised.
The Cold Snap That Civilised The World
"A SUDDEN drop in temperatures 5,000 years ago ushered in the modern climate and may have encouraged the development of complex civilisations around the world."
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posted on
09/07/2006 5:37:24 AM PDT
by
blam
To: blam
Hmmm...they positioned it like it was new in this latest press release. I had not remembered your thread from 4 years ago on this.
Your mind is like the proverbial steel trap--thanks, blam.
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posted on
09/07/2006 5:40:13 AM PDT
by
Pharmboy
(Every single day provides at least one new reason to hate the mainstream media...)
To: Pharmboy
Must have been all those SUV's that the ancient civilizations used to cart their children to their rock throwing games.
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posted on
09/07/2006 5:42:41 AM PDT
by
sandbar
To: Paloma_55
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posted on
09/07/2006 5:43:27 AM PDT
by
Pharmboy
(Every single day provides at least one new reason to hate the mainstream media...)
To: Pharmboy
--
driven by natural fluctuations in the Earth's orbit,--
--while I agree that climate changes, this isn't the cause, IMHO--
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posted on
09/07/2006 5:44:35 AM PDT
by
rellimpank
(Don't believe anything about firearms or explosives stated by the mass media---NRABenefactor)
To: Pharmboy
>>>The early civilisations of Egypt, Mesopotamia, South Asia, China and northern South America were founded between 6000 and 4000 years ago when global climate changes, DRIVEN BY NATURAL FLUCTUATIONS IN THE EARTH'S ORBIT... >>>
WHAT? You mean that the Earth can actually have climate change and it not be man's fault???
Why, that just goes against everything Al Gore told me. I have been feeling waves of guilt for years now about how my air conditioner is the ruin of the entire planet.
I guess I can go back to aerosol hairspray, eh?
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posted on
09/07/2006 5:44:36 AM PDT
by
sandbar
To: Pharmboy
"Hmmm...they positioned it like it was new in this latest press release. " Yup. Happens to me all the time I even find some in the 'breaking news' category. I say the more the merrier. Thanks for posting.
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posted on
09/07/2006 5:51:10 AM PDT
by
blam
To: Pharmboy
My hypothesis: We domesticated animals starting with sheep and goats. The pastoral lifestyle allowed a population explosion leading to overgrazing. Then seasonal rains swept topsoil into the river valleys on a yearly basis. What could be easier? The floods fertilized and irrigated the valleys. Bugs and weeds were wiped out. Poke a hole in the silt and plant your grain. Voila! Bread, beer, and the easy life. Hence the early civilizations of Mesopotamia, the Indus, China, etc.
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posted on
09/07/2006 6:31:51 AM PDT
by
darth
To: Pharmboy
Climate change rocked cradles of civilisationmeaning:
Ancient global warming rocked cradles of civilisation.
Enviwacos never use term "global warming" applied to the past. Global warming can happen only now and in the future. Global warmings of the past are "climate changes".
To: Paloma_55
Very revealing, temperatures peak, then head down into long glacial periods. Homo sapien developed somewhere between 150000-100000 years ago. From the graph, It looks like man is extending the warm period, a beneficial thing. Could it be Bush is doing something right, and Al Gore is cornering the fur seal coat market.
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posted on
09/07/2006 6:36:51 AM PDT
by
depressed in 06
(Bolshecrat, the party of what if.)
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