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.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
So, the Mayans had too many farting cows or were driving too many gas-burner SUVs?
French Revolution arose from an extended period of cold weather that caused poor wheat harvests. Price of bread skyrocketed, a staple of the French commoner's diet.
Irish potato famine occurred in similar fashion. Doesn't anyone study history anymore? smdh
How could their activity possibly have caused the earth to warm?
The evil Europeans were driving SUVs back then?
The SUV was invented in 900AD? That means there’s a new archaeological holy grail to be found.
And they are passing off this irresolvible theorizing as “science”?
Global Warming causes:
Hair loss, amnesia, dementia, road rage...
drought
drout/
noun
noun: drought; plural noun: droughts
a prolonged period of abnormally low rainfall; a shortage of water resulting from this.
synonyms: dry spell, lack of rain...
NOTHING TO DO WITH ‘CLIMATE CHANGE...
I assumed the story was being presented as evidence AGAINST the idiotic warming claims of today.
If the Mayans wilted under the heat a thousand years ago, it surely couldn’t have been my three all-wheel drive vehicles that caused the problem.
Recently I read a history of the Indian tribes in my home area, scholarly but very readable, and the author pointed to the same kind of terrific heat wave about five hundred years ago...said tribes migrated north from present-day Mexico all the way to and beyond the Canadian border, in search of food and water.
The heatwave and drought lasted many years...again, it sure as hell wasn’t coal or oil that brought that one about...
No factories or cars, what caused that “global warming?” Likewise, what happened to the last ice age since there was no man made carbons being poured into the atmosphere?
Such advanced machinery ... all without the invention of the wheel ...
I am sure it was all the old clunkers they were driving around those days, and I bet their airconditioners were all running R13 freon.
So global warming was occurring before there was any industrial output which means that it is a NATURALLY OCCURRING PHENOMENON !
#FAKE NEWS
Change is constant, whether we like it or not.
I suppose global warming made them cannibals too.
Eleven hundred years ago the Mayans neither created nor could could control “Global Warming”
nothing has changed.
So their civilization was destroyed 1117 years ago because they were all driving cars, SUVs, and flying in airplanes?
They didn’t have any FARTING COWS either.
And Erectile Dysfunction!
btt
Hot tempers accelerated by climate change. One question here The cause of climate change this long ago? opposing views of the civilization.
Leaders being leaders doing what leaders do. Control the populace
Climate change the the cause of everything to hear these nitwits tell it.
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