Posted on 01/14/2011 7:53:47 AM PST by Sub-Driver
Study: Climate change contributed to fall of Roman empire By Ben Geman - 01/14/11 09:50 AM ET
Some House Democrats blamed their defeat in November’s mid-term elections partly on Speaker Nancy Pelosi's decision to force a vote on a climate change bill.
A new study suggests that climate change has claimed bigger political victims in the past. Much bigger.
The study published in the journal Science suggests climate change contributed to the rise and fall of the Roman empire.
“Climate change seems a factor in the rise and fall of the Roman empire, according to a study of ancient tree growth that urges greater awareness of the risks of global warming in the 21st century,” Reuters reports.
The study's lead author said climate shifts affected farming, and amplified other political, social and economic crises.
The study notes that periods of good oak and pine growth in central Europe over the last 2,500 years signaled warm, wet summers that overlapped with wealthy periods among farming societies – including the height of the Roman empire.
But the story notes that the good times didn’t last: “Periods of climate instability overlapped with political turmoil, such as during the decline of the Roman empire, and might even have made Europeans vulnerable to the Black Death or help explain migration to America during the chill 17th century.”
There was a lot of discussion after last November’s mid-term elections about whether votes for cap-and-trade fueled the defeat of some House lawmakers. Democrats lost 63 House seats, and many of those who lost supported a climate change bill approved by the House.
As was said yesterday, N. Pelosi (D-Mars).
Seriously? WTF?
Maybe global climate isn't supposed to be immutable after all!
What they are not telling you is that the warm periods are when there was great wealth. the colds periods were bad. We should welcome and hope for global warming, not fight against it.
guess they had to many SUVs back then..and factories..if only they had green technology, they might have survived as a society.
They are just trying to discredit Glenn Beck’s book “Broke.”
If the Romans had adopted Cap ‘n’ Trade we would be speaking Latin this very day. HMM.
Also Romans refused to remove all crosses from public places. I recommend greater awareness of the risks of public displays of Christianity in the 21st century
shifts ie hot & cold, yes? Why harp on the warming while discounting or not mentioning the cooling?
Yeah, I know...........
Yeah, because the Germanic tribes had NOTHING to do with it.
/sarc
***“Climate change seems a factor in the rise and fall of the Roman empire, ***
Them d*mned SUV Chariots are to blame! No wonder Rome forbade them in the city during the daylight hours!
Add to that the coal fired hot baths and olive oil lamps putting so much pollution into the atmosphere.
No, it wasn't moral decay,
or the cult of Caesar worship,
or the barbarian invasion...
IT WAS THE WEATHER.
For a time is coming when people will no longer listen to sound and wholesome teaching. They will follow their own desires and will look for teachers who will tell them whatever their itching ears want to hear.
(2 Timothy 4:3)
Burning of Christians??
And all these idiots are making more than you or I even dreamed about...
Bush’s fault.
Climate changes? Who’d have guessed?
Is this suppose to be a SERIOUS hypothesis by the GW/CC fraudsters?
GW/CC caused the Fall of the Roman Empire AND the Black Death?
How sophmoric and ignorant can anyone be that would write such tripe. Or for that matter BELIEVE this garbage.
I’m pretty much sure accdg to this libtardic loon that WW2 ended because of the fear of global warming.
It’s because Roman families were reluctant to light their homes with CFCs (Compact Fluorescent Candles).
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