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Ancient poop helps show climate change contributed to fall of Cahokia
University of Wisconsin - Madison ^ | February 26, 2019 | By Kelly April Tyrrell

Posted on 02/26/2019 12:01:55 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Can't blame SUV's, can't blame Trump but the can always bring up the universal scapegoat Climate Change when lacking any other explanation.

21 posted on 02/26/2019 1:09:29 PM PST by BitWielder1 (I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

so, San Francisco won’t be the first city destroyed by poop?


22 posted on 02/26/2019 1:12:40 PM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The ‘climate’ changed when a bunch of new guys moved in and killed them all .. climate problem solved


23 posted on 02/26/2019 1:14:48 PM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: rktman

what, you didn’t find the pony ?

I guess they just explained roanoke.
They explained the 1930’s dust bowl.


24 posted on 02/26/2019 1:44:21 PM PST by stylin19a (2016 - Best.Election.Of.All.Times.Ever.In.The.History.Of.Ever)
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To: rktman

It has to be true. Pooptrometers use to measure its characteristics are highly accurate.


25 posted on 02/26/2019 1:52:44 PM PST by antidemoncrat
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I’m sure it had nothing to do with mass murder, especially of women, and enslavement of neighboring tribes.


26 posted on 02/26/2019 3:13:32 PM PST by VanShuyten ("...that all the donkeys were dead. I know nothing as to the fate of the less valuable animals.")
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Have they unvovered any SUVs yet?


27 posted on 02/26/2019 3:43:32 PM PST by aquila48
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To: rktman

‘Climate Change’ is a tautology (a redundancy) as the worlds climate HAS ALWAYS CHANGING

Leftists lie as easily as they breath, and dont give a damn about truth or honesty.

So for the unfortunates being bombarded by this leftist propaganda just remind THEM that : The same proponents of ‘climate change’ are the ones who pushed ‘Global Warming’ which has been shown to be a socialist scam (they had to change that scams name to be more vague - so that ANYTHING can be claimed to be ‘climate change’).

To the Leftards - demand that they : Turn off their air conditioning, and keep their heat at 65 in winter, and STOP driving their cars (use public transit) and stop going on trips -— Or THEY ARE HYPOCRITES (they CAN DO these things TODAY if they actually believe what they spew - but for some reason they never seem to)


28 posted on 02/26/2019 3:48:08 PM PST by elbook
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“Archaeological evidence also shows that by 1200, Cahokia’s population was on the decline and the site was abandoned by its mound-building Mississippian inhabitants by 1400.”

So it took well over 200 years for the so called “fall”? Most civilizations don’t last that long!


29 posted on 02/26/2019 3:49:13 PM PST by aquila48
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“Scientists have uncovered a number of explanations for its eventual abandonment, including social and political unrest and environmental changes.”

But what’s in the headline? Climate change.


30 posted on 02/26/2019 3:51:22 PM PST by aquila48
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To: marktwain; Oldeconomybuyer; zot; ckilmer

I too was thinking about the Medieval warm period coinciding with the time of ‘climate change’ mentioned in the article. A connection the author did not mention. I wonder if the archaeologists are taking that in account or just looking at Cahokia in isolation from the rest of global weather patterns and climatology?


31 posted on 02/26/2019 3:51:31 PM PST by GreyFriar (Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

We regret to inform your young archeologist group that their finding is not the petrified penis of a prehistoric prince but is the remainder of a creature that crept into the crypt and crapped.


32 posted on 02/26/2019 3:53:47 PM PST by N. Theknow (Kennedys-Can't drive, can't ski, can't fly, can't skipper a boat-But they know what's best for you.)
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“Cultures can be very resilient in the face of climate change “

unfortunately concentrated technologically-primitive populations are quite brittle when their food production is impacted by climate. The population has to disperse when the local crops are insufficient.

Example - Even in China, where civilization was extremely sophisticated, something like 1 million people DIED EVERY YEAR of Famine (even up to the time of the revolution) because their transportation was incapable of transporting sufficient food inter-regionally


33 posted on 02/26/2019 3:56:21 PM PST by elbook
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For instance, in 2015, co-author Samuel Munoz, a former UW–Madison graduate student and now a professor at Northeastern University, was actually the first to collect one of the Horseshoe Lake sediment cores White used in his study and he found evidence that the nearby Mississippi River flooded significantly around 1150.

That's not "climate change" that's just a "500 year flood," like 1993. The Mississippi has a long history of fairly regular multiyear flood cycles...not just the normal annual spring flooding.

34 posted on 02/26/2019 3:57:59 PM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge.)
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To: N. Theknow

Well played sir!


35 posted on 02/26/2019 4:08:26 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I had a suspicion about the Cahokia poopulation and their travels..


36 posted on 02/26/2019 4:13:11 PM PST by SGCOS
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To: SunkenCiv

*um, ping*


37 posted on 02/26/2019 8:42:13 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj ("It's Slappin' Time !")
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To: GreyFriar; marktwain; Oldeconomybuyer; zot

Its also the case that the medieval warm coincides with the viking expansion out of Scandinavia. better climate more food more people so the extras go raiding and colonizing.


38 posted on 02/27/2019 7:23:39 AM PST by ckilmer
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To: GreyFriar; marktwain; Oldeconomybuyer; zot

Its also the case that the medieval warm coincides with the viking expansion out of Scandinavia. better climate more food more people so the extras go raiding and colonizing.


39 posted on 02/27/2019 7:23:43 AM PST by ckilmer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

This isn’t Goebbels stuff.

It is indisputable that the various climates which exist on our planet (there is no “global climate”) have undergone huge changes in historic time which have moved around, wiped out, or fostered various human populations.

Whether the activity of humans have had, or have now, anything to do with this is, of course, very dubious.


40 posted on 02/27/2019 7:27:29 AM PST by Jim Noble (Freedom is the freedom to say that 2+2 = 4)
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