I usually see the estimate for the Roman Warm Period topping out around AD 300. Thus, the beginning of the Dark Age cooling period (which bottomed out around AD 900 to begin the Medieval Warm Period).
About a century before the fall of the Byzantine Empire — the eastern portion of the vast Roman Empire — signs of its impending doom were written in garbage.
Archaeologists recently investigated accumulated refuse in trash mounds at a Byzantine settlement called Elusa in Israel's Negev Desert. They found that the age of the trash introduced an intriguing new timeline for the Byzantine decline, scientists reported in a new study...
Unlike the architecture of an ancient city, which could be repeatedly destroyed and rebuilt, landfills steadily accumulated over time, creating continuous records of human activity. Clues found in preserved garbage dumps could thereby reveal if a city was thriving or in trouble...
In the dump sites, the scientists found a variety of objects: ceramic pot sherds, seeds, olive pits, charcoal from burned wood and even evidence of discarded "gourmet foods" imported from the Red Sea and the Nile, the study authors reported.
The scientists carbon-dated organic material such as seeds and charcoal in layers of trash mounds located near the city. 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.
Based on the new evidence, researchers concluded that Elusa's decline began at least a century before Islamic rule wrested control of the region from the Romans. In fact, Elusa was struggling during a period that was relatively peaceful and stable; it was during this time that the Roman Emperor Justinian was expanding the empire's boundaries across Europe, Africa and Asia, Bar-Oz said.Ancient Garbage Heaps Show Fading Byzantine Empire Was 'Plagued' By Disease and Climate Change | Mindy Weisberger | March 25, 2019 | Live Science
Figures muzz were involved.....
Wait a minute. Mini Ice Age? Is that like Climate Change?
I usually see the estimate for the Roman Warm Period topping out around AD 300. Thus, the beginning of the Dark Age cooling period (which bottomed out around AD 900 to begin the Medieval Warm Period).
Cold kills. Warmth makes life flourish on Earth. When it become colder or warmer the ideal zone shifts from north to south. It is not sudden but slow as is rising sea level or receding sea level. At the end of the last ice age the Dogger banks of the North Sea were above water and inhabited. Today they are far beneath the surface. The vast majority of sea level rise since the end of the ice age has been preindustrial times. Why did it melt? Man had nothing to do with this? Not one damn drop of petroleum was being burned before or after the last ice age until “Drake 1” in Pennsylvania. Why did the rapid rate of melting slow down even before CO2 was a factor?
The Drake Well, also known as “Drake’s Well 1, is the first successful commercial oil well in the United States, located in Cherrytree Township, Pennsylvania. Drilled by Colonel Edwin Drake in 1859, it struck oil at a depth of 69.5 feet, marking the beginning of the American oil industry.
It is really about orbital mechanics of the earth and changing axial inclination. This effects the total energy the earth receives from the sun. It is really that simple.
Malankovitch a brilliant astrophysicist figured this out long ago. From Wiki, “Milutin Milankovitch (1879-1958) was a Serbian mathematician, astronomer, and geophysicist who is best known for his theory of Milankovitch cycles, a theory that explains long-term changes in Earth’s orbit and rotation and their relationship to climate change, particularly during ice ages.
In political correct scientific communities they ignore his work as it defies the current scientific fraud about global warming.
Maybe in the middle of the middle of the sixth century, Romans had to adhere to a forced recycling program to save the erf.
It must have been all of those Chariot SUV’s the Roman’s were driving around. /hehe
You mean the factories, cars and masses of people at the time did not contribute to climate change, that it happens naturally???
If the cold period began in 500 A.D., it was too late to bring down the Western Roman Empire. Romulus Augustulus, the last official Western Roman Emperor, was deposed in 476. By the 500s, the last people claiming to be Western emperors were gone, except for the local king of a mini-state in western Algeria. It looks like the Eastern Roman Empire WAS badly affected by the colder weather and Justinian’s plague, but I figured we all believed in that by now.