Posted on 01/18/2011 10:49:18 PM PST by neverdem
Climate variations have influenced the agricultural productivity, health risk, and conflict level of preindustrial societies. Discrimination between environmental and anthropogenic impacts on past civilizations, however, remains difficult because of the paucity of high-resolution palaeoclimatic evidence. Here, we present tree ring–based reconstructions of Central European summer precipitation and temperature variability over the past 2500 years. Recent warming is unprecedented, but modern hydroclimatic variations may have at times been exceeded in magnitude and duration. Wet and warm summers occurred during periods of Roman and medieval prosperity. Increased climate variability from ~AD 250 to 600 coincided with the demise of the Western Roman Empire and the turmoil of the Migration Period. Historical circumstances may challenge recent political and fiscal reluctance to mitigate projected climate change.
Did they use an oliver typewriter to do the recording?
/mark
More climate hysteria disguised as policy-neutral scientific inquiry.
It was all those damn diesel powered chariots.
No on “BCE” and “CE.” It’s “BC” and “AD.”
If only the Left were right, and former empires did fail because of the weather...
But then, the Left couldn’t gasp any other reason for it, so I’m sure they’ve bought off on the global warming angle 100%.
The Left continues to impress, how dumb can a human being actually be? New records seem to be set all the time.
Exactly.
Global warming might be good for world peace.
The abstract would have been more pc if they had used CE (common era) instead of AD.
So preventing climate change is really the desperate act of a hegemonic elite obsessed with clinging to power?
What a bunch of gobbledegook to avoid the obvious “inconvenient truth” (for the global warming crowd, that is), that warmer weather means better crops and prosperity, and cold weather leads to famine and social disruption.
‘It was the climate. All those grass-guzzling oxcarts and oxen.’
The Black Death is blamed, in part, on the beginning of the Little Ice Age, as the Plague of the reign of Justinian is often blamed on the cooldown of the late Classical period. This is the opposite of global warming, and is evidence of its falsity.
Obviously other causes, such as plagues spreading out of central Asia were involved.
‘It was the climate. All those grass-guzzling oxcarts and oxen.’
The Black Death is blamed, in part, on the beginning of the Little Ice Age, as the Plague of the reign of Justinian is often blamed on the cooldown of the late Classical period. This is the opposite of global warming, and is evidence of its falsity.
Obviously other causes, such as plagues spreading out of central Asia were involved.
Those Roman Chariots were one of the worst creators of global warming. It sure makes me feel better to know that they are thing of the past.
‘What a bunch of gobbledegook to avoid the obvious “inconvenient truth” (for the global warming crowd, that is), that warmer weather means better crops and prosperity, and cold weather leads to famine and social disruption.’
Isn’t that what the report says.
‘What a bunch of gobbledegook to avoid the obvious “inconvenient truth” (for the global warming crowd, that is), that warmer weather means better crops and prosperity, and cold weather leads to famine and social disruption.’
Isn’t that what the report says.
Funny, I would have guessed several hundred years of autocratic leadership, often by mental incompetents, bankruptcy, a declining birthrate, disease, and constant warfare...but maybe those were cool years too.
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