Europe's Chill Linked To Disease (Black Death Caused Little Ice Age?)

bbc ^ | 2-27-2006

[blam]

GGG Ping.

I'll pick box #1, A decrease in solar activity.

[CROSSHIGHWAYMAN]

"The atmosphere is in equilibrium with the ocean and this tends to dampen or offset small changes in terrestrial carbon uptake," he explained.

I always thought there was more O2 at the time of the dinosaurs.

[Fielding]

This theory sounds as good as any created by randomly cutting and pasting words from a article in the NYT.

[Publius6961]

OK I'm convinced.
No matter how silly, anything that can be written wiil be assumed to be as "serious" and "valuable" as anything else.

Silliest notion I've ever heard!

[Kirkwood]

Science is going down the tubes.

[BadAndy]

More evdence that these global warming people are idiots.

[Vicomte13]

They left out a crucial piece.

The little Ice Age started to end in the 1630s, and corresponded with...the widespread adoption of Virginia tobacco in Western Europe!

That's right, my friends, it was all those people lighting up tobacco (cultivated by the rape of North America, the slaughter of the Indi... sorry, Native Americans ... perpetrated by the slave trade...that started us on the upward path towards global warming.

Therefore, the only way we can truly end the menace of global warming is by banning all smoking everywhere in the world, reforesting Eastern North America, and having all white people emigrate to Europe.

And that is how tobacco and slavery caused global warming, and why it's all America's fault.

[meandog]

"Ashes, ashes, all fall down!"

[andrew2527]

At this point in history, would this drop in temperature not be documented?

[Jeff Chandler]

And that is how tobacco and slavery caused global warming, and why it's all America's fault...and Bush is an American, therefor...

[edcoil]

It was transferred by mice, 1,000's of mice and it did not stop until the huge london fires that killed most of the mice.

[Ditto]

In a time when pile of PC junk science grows larger by the minute, this hunk of junk stands out from the pack.

[Conan the Librarian]

Little Ice age was caused by period of low solar activity. Maunder Minimum 1645-1715 (also the reign of Louis XIV of France the 'Sun King') The 60+ years of solar minimum had a great impact on the Earth, but, it was caused by the Sun putting out less energy. People who write this stuff forget that people can check behind them now. Like AlBore and the internet.

Looks like a lot of this story came from the Wikipedia. Very similar wording

[RegulatorCountry]

This study will be used to rationalize "reducing" world population by 1/3 in order to combat global warming.

[Elpasser]

These global warming goofballs are making up their "science" as they go along.

Evolutionists, are you taking note? This is the same "bandwagon" mindset that passes itself off for scientific thought in modern universities.

Real science proposes a hypothesis, and is willing to discard it if the evidence and predictions run to the contrary. Evolutionists instead continually revise their hypothesis into an ever more malleable, all-encompassing glob to accommodate observations without questioning their fundamental premise that life brought itself into existence.

[siunevada]

Pollen and leaf data support the idea that millions of trees sprang up on abandoned farmland, soaking up carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.

I'll bet they eventually became 'old-growth' forests, too. The worst kind.

We all learned as children from Hansel and Gretel that forests are evil. This is the scientific proof.

[Tokra]

I just finished reading a book about the Bubonic Plague. It's hard for us to comprehend the staggering death toll. It wasn't as though one out of every three people dropped dead - there were certain areas (most of Scotland and Poland) and some isolated towns and villages that were untouched. There were many more cities and towns were everybody died. One of the major problems was that there was no one left in some of these places to bury the dead.

Some of the writings and diaries left by the survivors are heartbreaking to read. It was a terrible death - huge growths appeared under a persons arms, their skin turned dark purple, they became delerious and usually died within a few days.

The people of that time tried everything they could think of - but since they knew nothing about how viruses travel, it was all to no avail. Many thought it was the end of the world. It was, for millions.

[stubernx98]

Actually it was the other way around. The Bubonic Plague was caused by the lower temps. The lower temps resulted in mass starvation and mal nutrition, which lowered resistance to disease. That added to the ignorance about rats(before the French ate all of them) and hygiene.

The Plague could reside in you, and when you were weakest emerge and kill you in days. It would not be a problem in this time.