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Tablets That May Reveal El Nino Secrets Are Feared Lost In Iraq
Independent (UK) ^
| 6-9-2003
| Ben Russell
Posted on 06/08/2003 4:10:20 PM PDT by blam
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To: blam
Look,anything that Tom Dalyell says should be immediately discounted. The ignorant Marxist Scot Laborite is a fool who, tragically, is suffered gladly by Britain's left wing press.
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posted on
06/08/2003 5:15:44 PM PDT
by
gaspar
To: blam
The secrets of El Niño There is no secret, El Nino means: Let's twist again like we did last summer"... I thought EVERYONE knew that!
To: blam
"Dr Grove said: 'What happened was like a nuclear explosion. The cuneiform tablets of Iraq record in detail the almost complete collapse of pre-industrial agrarian societies due to extreme climate events lasting up to 10 to 20 years and possibly longer.'" Caused by all the CO2 those Sumerians were generating with their inefficient internal-combustion engines, right?
--Boris
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posted on
06/08/2003 6:20:07 PM PDT
by
boris
To: Our man in washington
Well you beat me to it.
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posted on
06/08/2003 6:20:42 PM PDT
by
boris
To: blam
Also on the shattered jar pieces, who shot JFK, The location of the lost cities of Atlantis and El Dorado, The location of Genghis Khan's tomb, the contents of Area 51 and where to find Big Foot.
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posted on
06/08/2003 6:27:13 PM PDT
by
Shooter 2.5
(Don't punch holes in the lifeboat)
To: Moonmad27
(I'm betting on the 50)And those were probably useless shards of pottery that the museum staff put out with the trash.
To: Shooter 2.5
Also on the shattered jar pieces, who shot JFK, The location of the lost cities of Atlantis and El Dorado, The location of Genghis Khan's tomb, the contents of Area 51 and where to find Big Foot.Not to mention where Jimmy Hoffa's buried, the exact North Pole coordinates of Santa's workshop and the secret sex fantasies of the Loch Ness Monster.
To: blam
This
is ridiculous.
In the American southwest studies done using pack rat nests and bristleconce pine trees have brought to light a weather time line more accurate than Mesopotamian scribes ever kept, a time line that goes back for about 10,000 years.
The bad news is that there have been severe droughts during the past 7,000 years. Some lasted 200 years and resulted in the desertification sweeping into some areas only to sweep out again.
Darn those cave men and their SUV's!
To: CFC__VRWC
Darn! you know I tried really hard to come up with some more zingers and I couldn't come up with any more.
Thanks. You did a good job.
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posted on
06/08/2003 6:35:43 PM PDT
by
Shooter 2.5
(Don't punch holes in the lifeboat)
To: goody2shooz
"In the American southwest studies done using pack rat nests and bristleconce pine trees have brought to light a weather time line more accurate than Mesopotamian scribes ever kept, a time line that goes back for about 10,000 years." You are absolutely correct. Tree rings show worldwide catastrophic events at 3195BC, 2354BC, 1628BC, 1159BC and 540AD. (two less events at 207BC and 44BC) Mike Baillie (below) is my guy.
Professor Mike Baillie
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posted on
06/08/2003 6:40:30 PM PDT
by
blam
To: 2sheep; happygrl; IFly4Him; AnnaZ
The tablets record the ancient Akkadian and Sumerian empires, which once dominated the land now divided between Iraq, Iran and Syria. They outline the catastrophic collapse of the city of Ur more than 4,000 years ago. Hundreds of thousands of people are thought to have died in a disastrous series of flash floods and severe droughts that may have lasted up to 30 years. Dr Richard Grove, research director at the Centre for World Environmental History at the University of Sussex, believes a series of dramatic changes in ocean currents and global winds was responsible for the collapse of the civilisation. His controversial theory suggests that the El Niño* he believes contributed to the fall of the Sumerian and Akkadian empires was one of the most severe of the past 5,000 years, and may have vital lessons for climatologists today.
*[South American fisherman have given this phenomenon the name El Nino, which is Spanish for "The Christ Child," because it comes about the time of the celebration of the birth of the Christ Child-Christmas.] http://kids.earth.nasa.gov/archive/nino/intro.html
Genesis 12:1 Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will shew thee:
Genesis 12:2 And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing:
Genesis 12:3 And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.
Who needs to make up a clay tablet crisis. Abram seemed to have a clue.
To: goody2shooz
"The bad news is that there have been severe droughts during the past 7,000 years. Some lasted 200 years and resulted in the desertification sweeping into some areas only to sweep out again." ...and, a few other things too.
Disaster that struck the ancients
A crater in Iraq that was discovered after Saddam drained the swamps that were the homeland of the Marsh Arabs
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posted on
06/08/2003 6:52:50 PM PDT
by
blam
To: blam
is this a bush-bash?
or wha'?
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posted on
06/08/2003 6:54:40 PM PDT
by
liberalnot
(what democrats fear the most is democracy .)
To: blam
Thanks, blam, to the professor's page. I just love that sort of thing. My all-time favorite book is "Roadcut Geology of Oregon". Sadly it was never a best seller.
To: goody2shooz
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posted on
06/08/2003 7:01:16 PM PDT
by
blam
To: boris
Carbon dioxide from all those furnaces they used to make clay tablets was the problem. Long-winded scribes did them in.
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posted on
06/08/2003 7:03:12 PM PDT
by
justshutupandtakeit
(RATS will use any means to denigrate George Bush's Victory.)
To: visualops
This is absurb. I can't believe something this empty has been published. The entire article is speculating about a speculation of a maybe.perhaps!
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posted on
06/08/2003 7:06:33 PM PDT
by
meyer
To: Welsh Rabbit
but now because the tablets are lost, humanity is doomed.Is that where the dims have been getting their talking points?
If it is, no wonder civilization colapsed 3000 years ago!
;-)
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posted on
06/08/2003 7:10:58 PM PDT
by
StriperSniper
(Frogs are for gigging)
To: blam
Wait till they tell us that the clay tablets had warnings about global warming and gas-guzzling SUV's.
To: StriperSniper
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posted on
06/08/2003 8:10:58 PM PDT
by
blam
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