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Posted on 06/10/2007 2:59:59 PM PDT by blam
Hot = Wet
Does this mean that with Global warming and the ice melting,that the Sahara will soon be a tropical region?
If so, then the Left will whine that the Western nations are ruining the Saharan culture.
Does this mean that with Global warming and the ice melting,that the Sahara will soon be a tropical region?
If so, then the Left will whine that the Western nations are ruining the Saharan culture.If so, let them. The more important issue to pay attention to is that the impending worldwide disruptions due to climate change will negatively affect the security of ourselves and our allies. There is a good chance the next war in the Mid-East will be fought over water, for example.
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I'm slugging my way through this one: After the Ice: A Global Human History 20,000-5000 BC (Hardcover) by Steven Mithen (Author)
If this SOB mentions man-made global warming one more time I'm likely to throw this book in the trash.
Adovasio refers to the origin of the ice ages as being “murky”, and makes a couple of references to CO2. After I rip through this one, and write an Amazon review of it (along with the memoir “Alvarez”), I plan to start “Bones”. Seems like there’s another one around here... oh yeah, I’ve got to do some excavation and locate that book on the Clovis extinction...
After the Ice:
A Global Human History
20,000-5000 BC
by Steven Mithen
Bones:
Discovering the First Americans
by Elaine Dewar
Okay, dammit, I’ll have to read this thing. Meanwhile, here’s my best guess:
Climates were more largely spread across latitudes pre-Ice Age, making for less competition over food sources, and, thereby, rewarding hunting/gathering. Ice Age and thereafter restricted food supplies into similar latitudes and created more competition over food sources, thus rewarding control over food supply and social organizations.
Well, there’s my best economic model for the Rise of Civilation...
Let me know if you like ‘Bones.’ It sounds like a subject I’m interested in.
Sounds reasonable. However, I think there have been civilizations of which we'll never find any physical evidence...sort-of (ahem) Sunken Civilizations.
Wow, glad we forced you to read it, that’s an excellent analysis IMHO.
Even if I were to start it tomorrow, I spend far too much of my time online (especially considering it’s summer), and the thing is about 2 1/2 inches thick (if memory serves, I’ve not looked for it in a while).
See, I had a motive...
Well, thanks, but I haven’t read the book yet. I’m kinda mad at you and Blam for bringing it up at all. I was hoping for a LIGHT reading list this summer...
Thanks for all your hard work on these threads. Fantastic stuff!
82,000 Year Old Jewellery Found
Oxford Mail | 6-4-2007 | Fran Bardsley
Posted on 06/04/2007 1:43:44 PM EDT by blam
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1844620/posts
The Cycle of Cosmic Catastrophes:
Flood, Fire, and Famine in
the History of Civilization
by Richard Firestone,
Allen West,
Simon Warwick-Smith
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