[SunkenCiv]

William the Conqueror's Global Warming
by Steven J. Milloy

Lloyd Keigwin, a researcher from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution... concluded that although sea surface temperature (SST) in the northern Saragasso Sea is now about 1 degree centigrade warmer than 400 years ago during the Little Ice Age, it is about 1 degree cooler than about 1,000 years ago during the Medieval Warm Period. Keigwin's conclusions are based on his study of sediment accumulation in the Saragasso Sea... Eleventh century society burned no gasoline. There were no electric power plants to burn coal. No chemical plants emitted volatile organic compounds (VOCs). Airplanes, reputed to emit as much of the greenhouse gases as the eighth most polluting nation, were still 900 years away from being invented.

[SunkenCiv]

One time ping to Daveinyork as well.

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[DManA]

Could have adapted to the weather if they hadn’t all gone nuts from the led poisoning.

[Snickering Hound]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_adrianople

The Battle of Adrianople that led to a barbarian kingdom in the middle of the empire happened a century before 476...

[exist]

Great read.

[mountainlion]

The Romans were broke. People couldn't afford taxes. Almost every day was a holiday and little work was done. Slaves revolted. The rulers could not afford to have kids and pay the extra taxes. Sounds kinda familiar.

[Bernard Marx]

Does anyone know the method of observing sunspots in Roman times? How and where were they recorded?

[MrsEmmaPeel]

Fascinating! Thanks! (Terrific race, the Romans)

[steelyourfaith]

Thanx again, SunkenCiv !

 

Beam me to Planet Gore !

[WoofDog123]

As you undoubtedly know, there is further speculation based on tree rings and I am not sure what else that a meteor/comet event around 540ad caused total collapse of some social/governing institutions in europe (e.g. the remaining roman institutions), IIRC there is textual reference to it raining mud or something otherwise exotic in ?france or somewhere western europe.

[Cvengr]

The weather didn’t help the Spanish Armada any.