Drought might have collapsed Cambodian Angkor city

Associated Press ^ | Wednesday, February 18, 2009 | unattributed

[SunkenCiv]

The collapse of Cambodia's great ancient city of Angkor may have been due to a massive drought nearly 600 years ago -- not just rival Siamese forces and widespread deforestation as previously suspected, a researcher said. Brendan M. Buckley said Tuesday that bands from tree rings that he and his colleagues examined show that Southeast Asia was hit by a severe and prolonged drought from 1415 until 1439, coinciding with the period during which many archeologists believe Angkor collapsed.

[SunkenCiv]

angkor wat site:freerepublic.com

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[stayathomemom]

This is about the same time period as the demise of the Cahokia Mounds settlement in the St. Louis area.

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bands from tree rings that he and his colleagues examined show that Southeast Asia was hit by a severe and prolonged drought from 1415 until 1439,

Interesting, wouldn't that be at the time Earth was experiencing significant global cooling. One might note that during this time period of global cooling Europe was experiencing famine and plague and now experts say drought was causing civilization in Cambodia to wane. In my opinion there is continued evidence that global cooling is far more harmful than global warming as an environmental condition.

On the radio there is a commercial saying global warming is a choice. If that is the case I choose warming and will conduct actions that increase warming since evidence from the past clearly indicates warming is better for humanity.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks.

[colorado tanker]

Looks like it was a rotten century all around the world.