Everybody knows that George W. Tang brought down his heriditary dynasty by refusing to put afterburners on Ox-butts. It was all documented by AlChink.
Buddha's fault.
One for the GGG?
BS
"the martial arts honed during the fall of the Tang still providea staple of modern Chinese epic films, and Mel Gibsonhas just released Apocalypto, a film set in the last days of the Maya"
And this years Oscar for greatest civilization lost due to global warming goes tooo.......
Yes, they did - and it was SUV's that caused the whole problem -- carbon dating proved it conclusively. In an odd twist, ancient elitist jets had almost no effect on Chinese climate change...
"The martial arts honed during the fall of the Tang still provide a staple of modern Chinese epic films..."
http://www.sonyclassics.com/curseofthegoldenflower/
The only problem with the Mayan thing, is that the towns in the dryest areas lasted the longest. It was war combined with environmental stress that did it in. The problem with these civilizations is that they required huge amounts of manual labor, coerced, religiously induced, etc, and intense organization. When the Swiss watch got some dirt into it, things were put under severe strain. There was not much margin for error. It really took the steam engine and the like to provide that critical margin, Rome to the contrary notwithstanding.
similar:
Collapse Of Civilisations Linked To MonsoonChanges
New Scientist | 1-4-2007 | Catherine Brahic
Posted on 01/04/2007 1:32:54 PM EST by blam
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1762414/posts
also related:
Scientists Study Ancient Gulf Stream
UPI | 12-4-2006
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1748962/posts
Discovery of Constant, Sun Spot Induced,
Harmless 1500 Years Global Warming Cycles
LifeSiteNews | 12/22/06 | Steve Jalsevac
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1758622/posts
Scientists drill back in time in Antarctica
Reuters | Friday, Dec 15, 2006 | Deborah Zabarenko
Posted on 12/16/2006 6:34:54 AM EST by jimtorr
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1754377/posts
Global warming biggest since Viking era
Cox News Service | Friday, February 10, 2006 | MIKE TONER
Posted on 02/12/2006 11:49:59 PM EST by presidio9
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1577371/posts
Sure, "Golden Civilizations"; No CFC's, no industrial revolution, no hole in the ozone layer, no fossil fuels and no chemical runoff caused by pesticides.
BUT
There was plenty of slavery, unexplained (and untreated) disease, famine, human sacrifice and absolute monarchs with the power of life and death over every individual.
Sounds to me that when the author is waxing poetic about "Golden Civilizations" what he seems to be referring to is an idealistic (but unfufilled) wish for a pastoral, totalitarian-communist-like society, sans technological progress.
To illustrate the point:
Think of a Stalin-like figure, bedecked in his finery of flayed human flesh, standing upon the balcony of his stone ziggurat (i.e. Kremlin), presiding over the May Day Open-Heart-Surgery-without-anesthetic parade, with thousands of "volunteers" all willing to take a very active (and final) roles, so that the gods (i.e. The State) get their blood sacrifice (which also coincidentally helps reduce the population, saving 'scarce' natural resources), and thus, secure the common harvest (income which will later be ruthlessly redistibuted at the whim of the State).
How dare ou puncture the author's vision of Utopia by asking a logical question about carbon-dated SUV's? (/sarcasm)
Too much dust from horses hooves and chariot wheels. I only await the unearthing of documents revealing the heretofore unknown Bush Dynasty responsible for this.