Posted on 04/05/2017 7:06:52 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
The reason for the collapse of Mayan civilisation has been hotly debated, but now scientists claim they have an answer - climate change.
Researchers believe that hot weather made the Mayans more aggressive and therefore likely to fight one another.
As crops failed due to the rising temperatures leaders waged war for power which lit the fuse of their eventual demise around 900 AD, the study says.
With crops levels low Mayan leaders could no longer rely on brash festivals or building projects to keep their sujects happy.
So they resorted to power struggles and war instead which finished the mysterious civilisation off.
Researchers catalogued inscriptions related to violence on stone monuments and compared them to temperature and rainfall records for the lowlands of the Yucatán Peninsula, which includes mordern-day Mexico, Guatemala and Belize.
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Oh barf...
Not only WHO but HOW MUCH was paid for this science fiction masquerading as ‘research’?
I went through 8 revisions of my master’s thesis because my advisor said it was “too technical” for my field of study. The end result was something that was a narrative pile of crap, and I refused to submit it. Yet garbage like this passes muster, likely more than once every semester, and academe just lets it happen.
It was Mayan SUVs.
Yeah, those Mayan SUVs were terrible CO2 producers.
Q: What does one call a physics major with an F average?
A: A future climate scientist.
Today you could submit something like that and put your more technical research online as an ‘addendum’ to it (or something)
Mayans’ Coal burning plants were to blame.
This explains the vast wheat fields in northern Alaska.
Just like that song, “Global Warming Killed the Video Star...” /s
You know, if it will make me hot I could change my mind on global warming.
;-)
So global warming was happening in the 9th century and obviously wasnt man made back then, or did the mayans have coal fired power plants and SUVs?
Just in: global warming is responsible for dandruff.
Actually, if the ‘scientists’ want to go down this road, LET THEM!!!
It will destroy any credibility they have about trying to link either fossil fuels OR human activity to Climate Change . . . in 900 AD there was little of either!
Q: What does one call a guy with a BS in Mechanical Engineering?
A: Bill Nye, the Science Guy.
Hot weather is more inclined to make a people indolent, since activity raises body temperature.
Correlation is not causation.
No, it was my SUV!
I forgot I left it idling in the driveway.
The latest scientwisting findings prove it was retroactive.
Soooo soorrryyyy!
And this was man made? Oh my, we no longer have an education system and that is a provable fact.
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