[decimon]

Extra dry ping.

[ken21]

global warming no doubt.

those toyotas, priuses, buicks, ... destroy the environment.

[samtheman]

Aztec SUVs are the cause.

[Thunder90]

Oh Knows, Global Warming from us today affected the Roman Empire 2000 years ago... It went through a time warp or something...:)

[mylife]

Thank goodness we grow all our food in China now.

No worries. ☺

[I am Richard Brandon]

" in the second century A.D. Almost nine hundred years ago, in the mid-12th century, "

Huh?

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[SuzyQue]

Isn’t that about the Anasazi left their pueblos?

[ApplegateRanch]

Previous megadroughts in America: 2nd Century +/-; 12th Century +/-.

21st Century Time Magazine cover:

IS AMERICA HEADED INTO A MEGADROUGHT CRISIS?

Ten things YOU can do NOW to prepare!

Related stories:

President Appoints Water Czar pg 13
The Health Benefits of Dust Baths pg 37
How To Choose & Install a Flushless Toilet pg 42
You May Not Get Blood From a Turnip, But They DO Contain Precious Water pg 52
Learning From Our Pets: How to Use Your Tongue for Personal Grooming pg 69

[ccmay]

These are the same guys that claim they can tell the temperature long years ago from tree ring widths. Now they say they can tell how much rainfall there was too. Which is it?

[fatez]

Irritates me to no end when I see warming and drought linked together. Warm air holds moisture, cold air cannot. The drought was most likely linked to a cold spell, not a warm one. What is interesting is that this is the time that Rome started to go through troubles with plague, invasion and crop-failure. The cooling / drought could have been global.