Posted on 11/10/2008 5:21:12 PM PST by SunkenCiv
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What?
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ping of interest
Next we’ll figure out why the Mayans declined... along with dozens of other major, advanced ancient civilizations.
Seriously, when an academic speaks like this, I wonder how long before someone else makes their PhD by saying the direct opposite.
Am I missing something? I read the entire article, and I didn’t see what kind of change doomed them. Was it too hot, too cold, too damp, too dry, or something else? Or was it like the Climate Change Crisis of this year and they faced cooling due to warming?
Not a single mention of the climate history of that area in the article.
I HATE journalists.
Argyll Ping.
I’d planned to ping ya, but you were too fast, or maybe I was just too slow.
I wonder if the same period climate change had an impact on Kashmir...
I have a “pashmina” shawl...silk and cashmere...I suspect the shawl would have been much warmer, back then...with the climate change and all...
Goats would have been VERY busy trying to keep warm...
Not sweaters, the people who sing, “Alley Oop.”
;’) The “Hollywood Argyles” — they must have been from Hollywood, they couldn’t spell.
This wiki-wacky page is pretty cool for a change:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alley_Oop
It probably rained that day. ;’)
I’m not even gonna *ask* how they do that...
The goats are randy from what I hear. I suspect millennia have not changed that...;o]
They certainly got their scaremongering done in the title ‘climate changed doomed’...
The Scotsman was a little more responsible with their headline “Was climate change responsible for driving ancient Scots out of glen?”
http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/scotland/Was-climate-change-responsible-for.4674280.jp
They also have a weather claim the other article did not have {guess ‘colder weather’ references are still banned in some press}
“They claim this period is marked by the start of a colder, wetter climate.”
two references...
“”Certainly, in some parts it seems to have become colder and wetter after about 1,200BC, and the people may have moved away.””
and more
“Neal Ascherson, visiting Professor at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London, said climate change brought an end to “this strange, idyllic period of late Neolithic and Bronze Age in this area”.
He said: “The weather, which was dryer and finer than it is now, seems to have come to an end around 1,000BC, when it began to change and the whole ecology began to alter. At the same time, culture changed.”
Thanks for that, especially the link.
Also some interesting remarks re: Hekla eruption, before it devolved into an AGW crevo type “debate”.
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