To bad They never had an Emperor Gore around .He could have mandated production of low emission horses
Posted on 12/06/2008 5:55:08 AM PST by grjr21
Geologists say a discovery in a cave near Jerusalem suggests climate change may have caused the fall of the Roman and Byzantine Empires.
Geochemical analysis of a stalagmite from Soreq Cave in the Stalactite Cave Nature Reserve reveals increasingly dry weather from A.D. 100 to A.D. 700 that coincided with the fall of both Roman and Byzantine rule in the region, the University of Wisconsin-Madison said Friday.
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To bad They never had an Emperor Gore around .He could have mandated production of low emission horses
LOL
Right. Not Germans or Moslems or anything. Climate change.
Global warming?
How convenient that it just happens now that these geniuses have found the "real" reason, that just happens to coincide with a politically correct hysteria about climate change. These "geologists" are looking for grant money from a source that's out of their normal realm - "climate change" grants. These people are either G-d d@mn fools or ruthless charlatans to suppose that they have suddenly found the "real" reason Rome fell, after two millenia of historians investigating and writing about it.
How about never having learned to fight on horseback??
Translation: I don't know, but I want some free publicity.
I could just as easily say the lack of fresh slave girls demoralized the Roman army which contributed to bad performance.
Rocks in a cave suggest climate change caused the fall of the Roman Empire.
I don’t know about you but every time I took a suggestion from an inanimate object I’ve lived to regret it.
This story is bull flatulence from Madistan where common sense is forbidden by fiat.
We all know that climate change only happens when evil entrepreneurs try to make a profit and have free markets. It takes the collective to direct us in the ways of the Goregons and Bommabots.
Where are the revolutionaries when we need them?
Well, at least the Romans fixed it by getting rid of all those cars.
Um, Muslims weren't for another couple hundred years. The Goths, upper Germanic tribes that the Romans considered subhuman and oppressed - that's another story.
Apparently the same with the Anasazi in the NA SW. No food is a problem.
Not to mention adoption of immoral lifestyles and the weakening of the will to defend the empire. Talk about self-indulgent, decadent cultures. Not many in written history surpass it.
Did the Romans use squiggly torches to save on their lighting?
“Not to mention adoption of immoral lifestyles and the weakening of the will to defend the empire.”
Sounds, frightenly, familiar.
Back then grapes for wine were grown in Northern England.
You just named most of the REAL major reasons Rome fell, and I’m willing to bet you’re not even a geologist.
Good ole moral corruption destroyed Rome and it’s starting to do the same in the ole US of A. Short of a real spiritual revival we are headed down the same road, but our republic is only 200 years old.
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