[shekkian]

The Ice Age came to an end with a phase of rapid climate change around 9500 BC. Scientists estimate that the average yearly temperature may have risen by as many as seven degrees within a few decades. What remained of the continental glacier vanished within another thousand years.

SUVs were to blame.

[muawiyah]

Chariots ~ all those oat eaters and hayburners required lots of slash and burn agriculture ~ as bad as any SUV.