Posted on 07/30/2020 12:33:27 PM PDT by artichokegrower
A new study suggests the Mediterranean Sea was the warmest during the Roman Empire than any other time in the past 2,000 years
The research, published in Scientific Reports, notes the Mediterranean was 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit (2 degrees Celsius) warmer "than average values for the late centuries for the Sicily and Western Mediterranean regions.
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Silence!!!
Nice summary!
Did they find a 2000 year old thermometer?.................was it in °F or °C?..................
About IVL — they didn’t use F, and it never got as hot as C. /jk
Mediterranean Sea was 2 degrees hotter during Roman Empire
Charles Rotter / 13 hours ago July 27, 2020
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2020/07/27/mediterranean-sea-was-2-degrees-hotter-during-roman-empire/
It was also 3 feet shallower..................
http://www.ancientportsantiques.com/sea-level-rise/
What? Did he try to drink it and then say, “D’oh!”?
Number 41...Do you find the water particularly warm these days?
“Is that why we cant get good garum these days?
The fish originally used doesnt survive in the colder waters?”
I just watched one of those history/archeology shows. It was about the Roman city of Neopolis and the garum trade. Seems Neopolis was a garum production and shipping hub. 100 three pit production pits and counting.
They found several intact and unopened jars of garum. It had turned to dust but they sent the dust to a lab and it was determined that sardines were the preferred fish for the garum made at Neopolis.
Sardines.
In the book “The Little Ice Age” it’s pointed out that sealevels were feet higher than present during the Medieval Warming which followed the Roman cooling and preceded the Little Ice Age. Inland towns today were once busy seapots.
They also grew copious amounts of wine in Britain.....gotta be hot for good wine.
There has long been a great deal of evidence that it was warmer during the Roman Warming Period than either now or the Medieval Warming period, but not much precision in how much warmer - suggestions of 2-2.5 Celsius, but not a lot of confidence in the precise numbers.
There’s not been so much dissent on that issue, but a great pretending that it never happened.
...and trying to count all the genders we now have...
Warmer waters mean faster growing algae and other green slimes.
Wow. Im impressed! These guys know how warm the Mediterranean Sea was 2000 years ago, to the tenth of a degree.
Polar Bears like it colder
The Roman Empire and the Indian Ocean: The Ancient World Economy & the Kingdoms of Africa, Arabia & India
by Raoul McLaughlin
PDF version
.epub version
It’s available at Barnes and Noble.
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