Byzantine Empire at its greatest extent, 565
It was caused by those Byzantine guys eating beef and bacon while driving around in their SUV’s.
Climate sure is changing. First it’s nasty Winter, then that horrible Spring time followed by the golden rays of warm sunshine in Summer. And to top it all off there is Autumn, you know where all the leaves turn all those horrible colors. Give me a fricking break liberals. This has only been going on for say a few billion years. And you are gonna tell me the world in gonna end in 10 years. Stupid is a stupid does.
If I had to choose between bubonic plague, Visigoths, Vandals, Huns, Persian and Muslim invaders, and the temperature getting 2 degrees cooler or warmer over 100 years (not that there is actually any proof of this), I would prefer the slightly cooler or warmer temperature. Below is a good textbook on the Byzantine empire. Oddly it never mentions climate change, because only a moron thinks climate change was anything but a trivial contributor to the advance or decline of any civilization that ever existed. Conversely, I guess climate change was a contributor to the advance of the Turks who conquered Constantinople in 1453, so Erdogan should want more of it. I wish I had a nickel for every idiotic statement made about the significance of climate change.
https://www.amazon.com/History-Byzantium-Timothy-Gregory/dp/140518471X
Climate change????
These people are stupid. Let em dig around in a garbage pit and leave the world alone.
They ACTUALLY used “Climate Change” in the title.
I clicked on it hurriedly to see if it was that crazy.
Proof that in order for an article to be printed it MUST contain global warming and/or some Trump bash.
Climate change should read “Environment change” because they done messed up where they call home.
And before SUV’s and Republicans! Amazing!
So has the dim-witted Bronx Bartender giving her two cents yet? I await with bated breath.
And yet, here we are.......
so if they were ruined by climate change how come we are here now, shouldn’t the climate be so much more worse?
I would think this helps show that the climate has it’s cycles it’s all ok, just a little rough at times but all cyclical.
The Roman Empire lost a lot of territory to the Arabs in the seventh century, but it didn't collapse. In fact, it made a comeback late in the first millennium AD. The final decline began, arguably, with the Battle of Manzikert in AD 1071.
“They found that trash had built up in that location over a period of about 150 years and that the accumulation terminated in the middle of the sixth century. This suggested there was a failure of infrastructure, which happens when a city is about to collapse, the researchers noted.”
Or, they decided to move the trash dump to a new location?
LOL!
So stupid!
The Ottoman Empire was destroyed by the US anti-=slavery .
Look up “harvest of the steppes”.
The Ottonams economy was based on slavery.
It is all right to talk about climate change and little ice ages, as long as the right people are talking about them. The little ice ages are usually “corrected” out of most climate change models. At that time, the plague wiping out the population was a bigger problem than chilly weather.
Not much garbage to throw way in those days. The occasional broken clay pot. Fire ashes. Animal bones. Fruit and vegetable peelings, seeds and cores. Maybe a piece of worn-out clothing now and then. Maybe a rare bit of corroded iron.
I imagine those ancients were really big on recycling and had little to throw away in the dump. We should learn from our ancestors.
I’m a bit skeptical climate change affected things equally to 100 million dead from disease.
But hey,
