[blam]

I have tree-ring incidents at: 3195BC, 2354BC,1628BC,1159BC, and 540AD. There are two smaller events recorded at 44BC and 207BC.

I think his ice core data is incorrectly dated. If anything had occurred worldwide, the trees would have recorded it.

[blam]

GGG Ping.

[Slings and Arrows]

Bush's fault.

[Fitzcarraldo]

Proof that time travel is possible and Bush was sent back to raise Cain.

[raybbr]

I have tree-ring incidents at: 3195BC...

Plus 2004 equals approximately 5200 years ago. Yes?

[Mister Baredog]

If anything had occurred worldwide, the trees would have recorded it.

WHEW! Thanks, I was starting to worry.

[Lokibob]

3195 B.C. is the same as 5,200 years ago (plus or minus 5 years).

[muawiyah]

The Earth's angle of inclination changed about 2 degrees. That cooled down the Sahara with the result that the monsoons no longer came in and watered the place.

German researchers have proposed that if we could heat up the Sahara by propagating hardy broadleafed plant species, we might well be able to pull the monsoons back in and create a new pluvial period.

It wasn't insolation that changed, but rather the capacity of the environment to absorb and keep heat.

(Yes, plant cover makes an area warmer because it will trap water vapor, a powerful greenhouse gas. Gee, maybe apparant global warming has to do with expanded irrigation. Whadda' ya' think, eh?!)

[Outland]

It was all those damned SUV's back then that did it.

[SunkenCiv]

similar:

Major Climate Change Occurred 5,200 Years Ago:
Evidence Suggests That History Could Repeat Itself
Space and Earth Science News ^ | December 16, 2004
Posted on 12/17/2004 10:57:17 PM PST by snarks_when_bored
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1304010/posts

[isthisnickcool]

The ice thawed in my back yard and I found this really big dog. It ate my mother-in-law so I think I'll keep it.

[randog]

I guess we'd better begin a massive effort to cap the world's volcanoes.

[Always Right]

I thought thought the earth had perfectly constant temperatures until the SUV was invented.

[RightWhale]

Little Ice Age, from 1450 to 1850 A.D.

Moderately interesting that coincides with the breakout of Europe into the Renaissance, with Copernicus, Columbus, Galileo, Newton, Pascal, and the whole gang discovering science again.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Blam.

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[okie01]

I have tree-ring incidents at: 3195BC...

3195BC + 2004AD = 5199 (or "5200 years ago").

Or am I missing something...???

[RadioAstronomer]

Both Lonnie Thompson and my uncle are published in this particular annal. :-)

http://www.igsoc.org/annals/21/

[reg45]

Fred Flintstone's SUV.

[Publius6961]

Major Climate Change Occurred 5,200 Years ago: Evidence Suggests That History May Repeat Itself

Impossible!
A lie!
Never happened!

A calumny and attack on the Bugs and Bunny crowd and the Enviro-leeches!
This is an outrage!

... the poor dears may have to go out and find real productive jobs!

[Publius6961]

3195 BC fits right in...

[solitas]

Thompson believes that the 5,200-year old event may have been caused by a dramatic fluctuation in solar energy reaching the earth.

Evidence shows that around 5,200 years ago, solar output first dropped precipitously and then surged over a short period. It is this huge solar energy oscillation that Thompson believes may have triggered the climate change he sees in all those records.

...we should be extremely cautious in how much we ‘tweak’ the system,” he said.

WE NEED LAWS PROHIBITING SUN-TWEAKING!
KERRY, KENNEDY, CLINTON SAAAVEEE USSS!