Major Climate Change Occurred 5,200 Years Ago: Evidence Suggests That History Could Repeat Itself

Space and Earth Science News ^ | December 16, 2004

[Lokibob]

3200 BC is usually marked as the start of the bronze age.

So, clearly, the climatic changes were man made.

[Lokibob]

You want to look at some hard data, Stanford has some on line here:
http://www.stanford.edu/~meehan/donnellyr/paleo.html

[SIRTRIS]

So, clearly, the climatic changes were man made. So clearly?!?!!? Mind explaining this clear as mud finding 3200BC marked by the start of the Bronze Age? This is in light of today's understanding or lack of understanding of statistical variability now and then. Kinda weak correlation don't you think?

[Lokibob]

Do all sarcastic remarks have to contain sarcastic tags?

Lighten up!!!!

[SierraWasp]

"But more importantly, they believe it has happened at least once before, and the results were nearly catastrophic to emerging cultures at the time."

Kinda reminds me of this data and model...

"In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened." Genesis 7:11

Something drastic happened then that changed the lifespans drastically and suddenly from Noah's 600+ years, down to Abraham's 120, or so. Something must have changed in the "firmament," also known as the "heavens" in those days... The timing would have been about 5200 years ago, as well!!!

[M Kehoe]

It appears that 5,200 years ago, something fairly catastrophic happened to Earth...

We will survive this one too.

5.56mm

[SierraWasp]

"Flatly untrue."

Good catch!!!

[SierraWasp]

Oh brother! I hadn't quite gotten to your #19 when I posted my number 25!! Great minds run in the same groove!!!

[farmfriend]

Seems to be a frequently reoccurring question.

Yes. I think links to certain informational pages should be put on the front page or accessed somehow. Not my call though.

[DirtyHarryY2K]

Yep, Seems their iceman is about the same age as Noah. I'm not sure about the time line though, because I don't know exactly how many years from Noah to Christ.

[SunkenCiv]

There isn't much to worry about, and, hey, what's that rumbling noise?

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[blam]

"Yep, Seems their iceman is about the same age as Noah. I'm not sure about the time line though, because I don't know exactly how many years from Noah to Christ."

If the Black Sea flood was Noah's, it was in 5,600BC.

[snarks_when_bored]

I've been away from my computer, so a belated thanks for that link to the Stanford site. I was very intrigued by the roughly contemporaneous events cited by Thompson, and your link is right on topic.

As for those events having been caused by the onset of the Bronze Age (per your post #21), what could be clearer?

Nature, good; humans, bad. Bad humans...bad, bad humans!

[snarks_when_bored]

If you could suggest a mechanism whereby some sort of climate catastrophe caused human lifespans to shrink (virtually overnight, in geological terms) from 600+ years to 70+ years, I'd be interested in hearing it.

[snarks_when_bored]

We will survive this one too.

That's what I'd bet on (said just before glancing up and noticing a fireball expanding to fill the entire sky from horizon to horiz

[U S Army EOD]

Seems this guy collected data from many different places that had the same results. Also, his time date is about the time that history pertaining to man started. All of this fits into a time frame of 500 years or so. He could be right.

The question is how quick did it take to get cold and how long did it take to get warm and of course which is the norm. The cold or the warm.

When North America was settled by the Europeans we had horrible Winters. It would snow waist deep in Virginia and so on. Prior to that, the Vikings could plant crops in places like Greenland. It is clear there can be drastic climate changes but the question is what brings them on. Meteors strikes would be my best guess. What we do to the climate with man induced events are like trying to bail the ocean out with a bucket.

I don't personally think we can prevent something like this from happening except maybe locally in a city or something. What we have to do is make plans to survive something like this and carry on with our lives.

[ApplegateRanch]

I look forward to emigrating to Antarctica, and developing a ranch/farm complex. Maybe use glacial melt water to irrigate it, and on the side, sell bottled "pure glacier water" to the poor, deluded eviro-schmucks who stayed in the Pacific Northwest Desert, protecting the dead snags of the former rainforest from "exploitation".

[-=Wing_0_Walker=-]

If what happened 5200 years ago also happened 5200 years before that, I would take the pattern to heart. At present we have speculation.

[SunkenCiv]

missed you on the GGG ping.

[ForGod'sSake]

If you could suggest a mechanism whereby some sort of climate catastrophe caused human lifespans to shrink (virtually overnight, in geological terms) from 600+ years to 70+ years, I'd be interested in hearing it.

Simple, earth lost its warp drive. The earth, due to the flood, couldn't get dilithiium crystals which had us zippin around the sun in about two months or so?

FGS