[SunkenCiv]

A view of Ipi-ha-ishutef’s coffin when originally sampled in 1938.

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[S. Cristanetti, A. Whyte/University of Chicago’s Oriental Institute] The coffin of Ipi-ha-ishutef showing details of the decorations on the walls. This is the coffin tree ring samples were taken from

[trebb]

Time machines - someone from the future went back and loaded them up with CO2.

[Ditter]

read later

[Maine Mariner]

This is news: climate change that was not the fault of white male capitalists living in the US!

[alexander_busek]

So, "climate change" caused one empire to fall - while shortly thereafter, another civilization rose (rarely does one superpower fall without another almost immediately taking its place).

So what?

Regards,

[umgud]

Geez, I thought climate had been consistent and static until modern man came along to screw it up with automobiles and factories.

[left that other site]

damm ancient Egyptians and their internal combustion engines and over-consumption of fossil fuels!

[Gaffer]

dendro radiocarbon wiggle matching

Yeah. That must be the archaeological equivalent of Prof. Michael Mann's "Hockey Stick" data manipulation. Fit the data to where you want your conclusions to go.

[xp38]

I thought it was the ewoks of Endor but I suppose the big trees had something to do with it.

[Popman]

“The tree rings show the kind of rapid climate change that we and policymakers fear,” says Manning...

OK...rapid climate change happened some 4,000 years ago...So what...

Humm, so we are supposed to change our entire standard of living to attempt to stop something that has been occurring for eons...

Mann needs to lead the way, live in a hut like a bushmen did 4,000 years ago, I might pay attention...

[gspurlock]

Too bad they didn’t know to burn enough fossil fuels to provide a CO2 rich environment which would have allowed more food plants to survive with less water.

[Teacher317]

Too many SUVs in ancient Egypt? Or maybe, juuuust maybe, the “scientific community” is actually wrong about the source of the modern “Climate Change”???? NAAAHHHH!!!

[Delta Dawn]

what led to the collapse of the Akkadian Empire and affected the Old Kingdom of Egypt and a number of other civilizations, he says.

Maybe the Akkadians should have tweeted out to #SaveOurPlanetAlGore. I am pretty sure that would have made a difference.

Seriously, when does one admit that one's research will never make one bit of difference to anyone...

[LoneRangerMassachusetts]

Want to fell an empire. Put Democrats in charge.