Posted on 01/18/2011 10:49:18 PM PST by neverdem
‘Funny, I would have guessed several hundred years of autocratic leadership, often by mental incompetents, bankruptcy, a declining birthrate, disease, and constant warfare...but maybe those were cool years too.’
All of these things led to civilizational collapse, but most of them went on all the time, not just during colder times. The declining birthrates and disease seems to be especially tied to colder weather.
GGG ping
The real story is that Europe was deeply in trouble before the weather changed for the worse in the mid 1300’s AD.
Italian bankers in Florence and Venice, primarily the Bardi and Peruzzi families had ruled over Europe for 150 years. You know, he who holds the gold, makes the rules. These banksters put the monetary screws to kings and nobility of Europe. Their greed and lending practices led to both France and England defaulting on their national debt. The bankers began having severe financial problems, so they tightened the screws on credit, put the squeeze on debtors.
As they say, some things never change, what goes around comes around.
The bankers squeezed. Feudal nobility was in debt to their eyeballs and they put the squeeze on the poor downtrodden serfs, raising tax levels to a point where the serfs could not feed their families, could not afford to borrow from “the company store” to buy seed to plant the following year. I believe it was winter 1341 or thereabouts when it got so bad, they ate what little supply of seed they had for planting the following spring.
Mass starvation and famine set in. In the space of 7 years half the population died.
Then things really went downhill, the weather changed and freezing cold and dampness set in. TSHTF.
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Actually, there is evidence that the black plague WAS a result of the change in climate.
But you miss the real point....the data here actually says that WARMER IS BETTER, despite the last line of the abstract. So this study is actually another nail in the coffin of global warming hysteria.
Man, they must have fed those horses some POTENT beans.
That statement, taken out of context, could easily be misinterpreted.
Thank you.
It’s a personal pet peeve of mine.
It illustrates silliness of P.C.
Yes, but the article tries t draw the opposite concludion.
Scientists bring cancer cells back under control
Do We Really Know Earths Temperature?
FReepmail me if you want on or off my health and science ping list.
NONE of the methods is Biblical.
And so on. Whether it's the fleas and other vermin on the rodents or the rodents themselves, that's the way you get it.
Rotting corpses of humans usually aren't all that good a vector anyway.
Now, a point about the Islamics spreading plague, they forgot to spread the earlier and even worse one called The Plague of Justinian.
That's because there was no Islam at that time.
You can argue that plague gave rise to Islam as a major military and cultural power ~ mostly by killing off everybody but the desert Arabs.
“BC” and “AD” have been used for two millennia. “BCE” and “CE” are of recent origin and clearly Christophobic. I first encountered “BCE” and “CE” in a book published in Communist East Germany.
LOL! Not a bad correlation, but I wouldn't restrict it to just desert Arabs.
With my winter eczema, I'll take warming.
Thanks for the ping.
LOL
My first impression too.
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