The Bronze Age Collapse (approximately 1200 B.C.E.)
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Global cooling rather than global warming or “climate change” doomed ancient societies, despite the New York Times’ latest efforts to invent a new global warming alarm. The Times published an article Tuesday claiming “climate change” doomed ancient societies to famine and collapse, but those societies thrived while temperatures were significantly warmer than today. It was only when temperatures cooled that shorter growing seasons and less favorable climate conditions doomed crop production and the food supplies of ancient civilizations.
The Times noted an extreme and prolonged drought lasting up to 300 years decimated crop production in Greece, Israel, Lebanon and Syria. According to the Times, around 1,200 B.C. “A centuries-long drought in the Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean regions, contributed to — if not caused — widespread famine, unrest and ultimately the destruction of many once prosperous cities.”
It is true, as the Times noted, that the Earth’s climate was changing around 1,200 B.C. Then again, the Earth’s climate is always changing. What was remarkable about the climate in 1,200 B.C., however, is the Earth’s climate was becoming cooler rather than warmer. The global cooling did not spare Eastern Mediterranean civilizations. A recent study published in the peer-reviewed Journal of Archaeological Science reported a cooling of sea surface temperatures in the Mediterranean Sea around 1,200 B.C. The cooling not only shortened growing seasons, but also resulted in declining rainfall.
The Times emphasized the devastating impact of this global cooling – er, make that “climate change”: “The era that followed is known as the first Dark Ages, during which the thriving economy and cultures of the late second millennium B.C. suddenly ceased to exist. It took decades, and even hundreds of years in some areas, for the people in these regions to rebuild.”
History repeated this lesson around 1,200 A.D. after the Medieval Warm Period. Human civilization thrived when dramatic warming ushered in enhanced crop production and the more beneficial climate of the Medieval Warm Period. The climate “change” that ushered in the Medieval Warm Period was a strikingly fortunate event for human health and welfare. By contrast, when cooler temperatures ended the Medieval Warm Period and ushered in the Little Ice Age, crop production declined, famines grew more regular, extreme weather and climate events worsened, and human health and welfare suffered.
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The Times noted an extreme and prolonged drought lasting up to 300 years decimated crop production in Greece, Israel, Lebanon and Syria. According to the Times, around 1,200 B.C. “A centuries-long drought in the Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean regions, contributed to — if not caused — widespread famine, unrest and ultimately the destruction of many once prosperous cities.”
It is true, as the Times noted, that the Earth’s climate was changing around 1,200 B.C. Then again, the Earth’s climate is always changing. What was remarkable about the climate in 1,200 B.C., however, is the Earth’s climate was becoming cooler rather than warmer. The global cooling did not spare Eastern Mediterranean civilizations. A recent study published in the peer-reviewed Journal of Archaeological Science reported a cooling of sea surface temperatures in the Mediterranean Sea around 1,200 B.C. The cooling not only shortened growing seasons, but also resulted in declining rainfall.
The Times emphasized the devastating impact of this global cooling – er, make that “climate change”: “The era that followed is known as the first Dark Ages, during which the thriving economy and cultures of the late second millennium B.C. suddenly ceased to exist. It took decades, and even hundreds of years in some areas, for the people in these regions to rebuild.”
History repeated this lesson around 1,200 A.D. after the Medieval Warm Period. Human civilization thrived when dramatic warming ushered in enhanced crop production and the more beneficial climate of the Medieval Warm Period. The climate “change” that ushered in the Medieval Warm Period was a strikingly fortunate event for human health and welfare. By contrast, when cooler temperatures ended the Medieval Warm Period and ushered in the Little Ice Age, crop production declined, famines grew more regular, extreme weather and climate events worsened, and human health and welfare suffered.
Global Cooling, Not Global Warming, Doomed the Ancients
Global cooling rather than global warming or "climate change" doomed ancient societies despite the New York Times' latest effort to invent a new global warming alarm.
www.forbes.com
livingston
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This is something to take away from everything I posted ..
. History repeated this lesson around 1,200 A.D. after the Medieval Warm Period. Human civilization thrived when dramatic warming ushered in enhanced crop production and the more beneficial climate of the Medieval Warm Period. the climate “change” that ushered in the Medieval Warm Period was a strikingly fortunate event for human health and welfare. By contrast, when cooler temperatures ended the Medieval Warm Period and ushered in the Little Ice Age, crop production declined, famines grew more regular, extreme weather and climate events worsened, and human health and welfare suffered.
And why do we need to cut fossil fuels to curb global warming ? Read the above paragraph again.... ... Global warming was a fortunate event...
. History repeated this lesson around 1,200 A.D. after the Medieval Warm Period. Human civilization thrived when dramatic warming ushered in enhanced crop production and the more beneficial climate of the Medieval Warm Period. the climate “change” that ushered in the Medieval Warm Period was a strikingly fortunate event for human health and welfare. By contrast, when cooler temperatures ended the Medieval Warm Period and ushered in the Little Ice Age, crop production declined, famines grew more regular, extreme weather and climate events worsened, and human health and welfare suffered.
And why do we need to cut fossil fuels to curb global warming ? Read the above paragraph again.... ... Global warming was a fortunate event...
1075tech
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Yep. Glaciers retreat and they find remnants of tropical forests. They tell you that the glacier melting is a result of climate change. But the glacier growing over once tropical forests isn't.