Beam me to Planet Gore !
My only question is:What will you do when your tree-ring world-cataclysm-prognosticator is found to be as much of a desperate hoax as global warming is? What will you do? What will you do?
When has the Earth’s climate ever NOT CHANGED?????.....
The problem comes when the AGW crowd ignores or tries to pretend that past natural climatic shifts never happened, as they try to label modern climate shifts as human-caused (and the infamous hockey-stick graph is a prime example of that).
I don’t have a problem ascribing changes in human fortune to changes in the climate. Certainly the times when the climate is warm fosters agriculture, prosperity, and therefore peace: people don’t go to war when they have full bellies and burgeoning farms. The problem arises when they confuse cause and effect, imagining that we humans are causing the climate change that affects our lives. Clearly humans did not cause any climate change that took place thousands of years ago. The climate changes, and will always do so, for reasons entirely unrelated to human activity.
Makes perfect sense, unless you know anything about Roman history and 400+ years of decline, resurgence, etc.
Also that a severe winter allowed a significant germanic settlement across frozen rivers into Roman territory.
Certainly illegal immigration played an enormous role in Roman history.
During the time of the Roman Empire, North Africa and Egypt were vast grain producing regions. The drying up of North Africa and reduction in grain production contributed to the fall of Rome.
BTW, just in case it's slipped someone's mind: Caligula was the THIRD Roman Emperor. He succeeded Tiberius, who was a monster himself. That's how fast totalitarianism degenerated into a hellhole.
Oh! And in case there's anyone who thinks it couldn't happen here, make no mistake: There are countless psychopaths and other monsters out there just salivating over the prospects of seizing control of the greatest, richest, most powerful nation the world has ever known!
When was any of the Climate Change that changed history caused by human activity?
And who is to say that the coming climate change (whatever it is) is going to be a bad thing?
Maybe it will lead to the downfall of communism.
“...Looking back on 2,500 years there are examples where climate change impacted human history...”
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Burn in hell, you blasphemer!
Our Gore-god teaches us just the opposite - humans effect the climate.
by the sudden expansion of gardening across Europe
for ingredients for Caesar Salads,
which led to massive deforestation and
sudden expansion of the Roman Army,
which led to massive deflowerings all across Europe,
caused by Roman hands and gropal warmings
Something is missing here. There is no explanation of exactly what it was that the Romans were doing to bring about climate change and, thus, their own demise.
Did the baths pollute the Mediterranean?
Was it all that salt sowed at Carthage?
Was it all the lion poop disposed of in the dump behind the Coliseum?
What was it, dammit? We need to know, so that we can save ourselves?
Professor Mike Baillie is an expert in the field of dendrochronology, that is, tree-ring dating, at Queen's University, Belfast. Over the past 100 years, scientists across the globe have been reconstructing a global chronology of tree growth going back 10,000 years. Because tree growth varies from year to year based on environmental conditions, it is possible to study the chronologies to build up a picture of the climate that existed when these trees were alive. Using this method, scholars have identified evidence of alarming environmental events in the past, affecting the entire planet, with profound consequences for the human groups living at those times.
Branches ? Branches?!!
We ain`t got no strinkin branches!!
We don` need no stinkin` branches!!
How much were the Romans paying for gas before their empire collapsed? Enquiring minds want to know...
Caligula’s hoopty be a fly Escalade..
IMO, while this report is probably linked to the bogus AGW agenda, I’d heard about this possibility of weather-induced crop failure precipitating the fall of the Roman Empire long before that AGW agenda got going.