Posted on 07/19/2018 8:07:53 AM PDT by BenLurkin
The Meghalayan...runs from 4,200 years ago to the present. It began with a destructive drought, whose effects lasted two centuries, and severely disrupted civilisations in Egypt, Greece, Syria, Palestine, Mesopotamia, the Indus Valley, and the Yangtze River Valley.
The Meghalayan Age is unique among the many intervals of the geologic timescale in that its beginning coincides with a global cultural event produced by a global climatic event...
The middle phase of the Holocene will be referred to as the Northgrippian, and runs from 8,300 years ago up to the start of the Meghalayan. The onset for this age was an abrupt cooling, attributed to vast volumes of freshwater from melting glaciers in Canada running into the North Atlantic and disrupting ocean currents.
The oldest phase of the Holocene - the exit from the ice age - will be known as the Greenlandian.
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For the Meghalayan, the spike is epitomised in a perturbation in the types, or isotopes, of oxygen atoms present in the layers of a stalagmite growing from the floor of Mawmluh Cave in the northeastern state of Meghalaya in India. This two-step change is a consequence of weakening monsoon conditions.
"The isotopic shift reflects a 20-30% decrease in monsoon rainfall,"
"The two most prominent shifts occur at about 4,300 and about 4,100 years before present, so the mid-point between the two would be 4,200 years before present, and this is the age that we attribute to the [Meghalayan golden spike]," he told BBC News.
Already the decision to discriminate ages within the Holocene has drawn fire from some scientists who believe the move is premature. They question whether some of the climate shifts used as anchors for the new ages were truly global in their impact.
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.co.uk ...
http://www.reportingclimatescience.com/2016/05/10/atlantic-cooling/
Someone needs to give the BBC a North Atlantic temperature map.
Yep...
The argument of nincompoops usually involves some claim that Israel “stole” land or “annexed” Palestine. Palestine was never a nation. That’s the point. There was never a single government associated with the sole governance of “Palestine.”
I do admit, it gets a little more complicated when folks understand the boarder changes associated with war in the region over the years. It is also complicated by the governance agreements that Israel has conceded in the past. Israel has certainly taken land after wars in which they were attacked. But so did Russia after WWII and many other countries. And this is what many of them hang their hat on in the intellectual argument about Israel.
It’s true. We’re all living in the Age of Megan.
I am your Queen.
Bow before me and then would someone please do my laundry?
Thanks!
Megan
I don't think it is premature, as it adds to precision when dating things.
The Holocene began, what 12,000 years ago?
At least back then when the Holocene began there certainly has been climate change, and subsequently even profound climate change in certain areas, since then.
Note: I do believe in Climate Change, as in, the climate changes, especially over long periods of time, that is, longer than a human being's lifetime. What I reject is Anthropomorphic Global Warming (AGW).
Climate changes happens naturally, and no proof exists that mankind's activities are causing rising temperatures.
The Left has co-opted "Climate Change" (when they really mean AGW) to further confuse people and claim that those not agreeing with them are anti-science.
Whenever a Leftists uses the term climate change, I ask them, "Don't you mean AGW?"
They say, no, or "what's that?"
I reply, "The climate could get real colder, so climate change covers that, too. So don't you really mean global warming caused by human activity?"
"Yes," they say.
Then I say, "So why aren't you using the right words to describe what you think is the problem? Climate change doesn't mean what you're trying to say."
7.5 billion humans presently living on Earth in the Holocene say:
Wasn’t that the Ottoman Turks????
Did they not also go into the Med and invade Cyrus, Greece, and southern Italy?
Maybe I’m thinking of another group...
So you’ve heard of a country called Mesopotamia?
A dramatic warming kicked us out of the last ice age?
Tell me more.
I’ve heard of a region called Mesopotamia...It was around what is now Iraq wasn’t it???
No, the Ottoman Turks appear in the 1300’s AD.
My point was that you seemed to be choking on the mention of Palestine but not on the mention of Mesopotamia.
I guess when I copied that line I went too far...
No-Its the same people that I’m thinking of.... They got around and were very prolific throughout the Med.
A lot of distinct Med. cultures can claim cultural/genetic traits back to that group.
It was very far in the distant past but since they were such wide ranging, nomadic, sea faring people, there is not a lot of hard archaeological data about them.
Besides, isn’t Palestine the area being treated as a nation by the Muslims, the leftists and the United Nations everyday today????
I don’t recall hearing Mesopotamia being mentioned anymore...
I see...Thanks...
I read that stuff a very long time ago... I may not recollect everything properly
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