Besides, a long term Bermuda High that came up in the wrong place knocked off the Mayan.
Winters in the SE United States would have been exceptionally warm and humid for the multi-hundred year duration of that anomaly.
That's probably why all the "locals" pulled back up the Mississippi, Tennesse, and Chattahoochee into the Ohio/Missouri Valleys.
This allowed a major invasion by South American and Caribbean Indians into the Gulf States just prior to the arrival of the Spanish.
Something similar happened to Puerto Rico, et al, where the local Indians had recently been conquered by the Caribs who killed all the males and took the women as slaves.
That was one heck of a weather system that caused everybody lots of problems.
It's all because Bush did not sign Kyoto
Global warmth generated by all those Rickshaw boys farting and breathing heavy.
I wonder if they carbon-dated the ancient Chinese & Mayan SUV's they dug up?
It wasn't just those, it was the coal fired electric power plants.
"There has never been a satisfactory explanation for the decline and fall of the Tang emperors,"
So the religion of the left thought they could make one up.
Sigh. More gloom and doom from the "scientists." Seriously, these guys are giving all of us technical folk a bad name.
So what if climate shifts? Just adapt. What ever happened to "when life hands you lemons, make lemonade"?
We humans have the power of mathematics, science, and technology. This earth is under our dominion. However, our inventions and discoveries are useless if we are not willing to use them to support the continued existence of our civilization. Yes, protect the earth, but don't overprotect the earth to our detriment. It's called good stewardship.
I thought the Tang still has plenty of power.
Climate variations have always affected harvests. But there is nothing to suggest that man has ever been able to affect the weather. He has, in the past, taken too much water from aquifers for them to replenish, polluted the water, killed enough wild game to make them extinct, and so on. But the weather? You might as well try to affect the rotation of the planets.
Hamarabbi's Fault.
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Why didn't Gore protest this outrage? Oh, right, he wasn't born yet. Um, neither were any of us! Jerk.
If only the dynasties would have signed Kyoto...
The Tang dynasty collapsed for the usual reasons - inept hereditary rulers without the ability and vigor of their forebears, ambitious officials who decided to become political entrepreneurs and imperial overstretch. Blaming climate change for it is indescribably silly. Here's an account of why it collapsed. Why the author of the article feels that this collapse is inexplicable is in itself inexplicable - the collapse had an air of the inevitable.
Those Chinese are such great folk. I'm sure they are pulling a "blue ribbon" panel of "experts" together immediately. Then it's right back on the assembly line.
It wasn't climate change, it was ManBearPig.
IOW, they still don't know.