[SunkenCiv]

Hongshan jade

[Darksheare]

12k years ago, an ice sheet not far from there was melting..
No surprise there.
No more ice melt, lakes eventually dry up.

[Tainan]

...suggests that its desert is only 4,000 years old.

And still more research will show that, typical of China, it has been the same damn year repeated 4,000 times.

[G Larry]

NOTHING to do with man-made climate change.

[ExCTCitizen]

I guess we should flood the Great Plains since it was an ocean. What BS...

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

2104 BC – 2103 BC: Date of the Biblical flood according to the Hebrew Calendar.

The 4.2 kiloyear BP aridification event was one of the most severe climatic events of the Holocene period in terms of impact on cultural upheaval. Starting in ~2200 BC, it probably lasted the entire 22nd century BC. It is very likely to have caused the collapse of the Old Kingdom in Egypt as well as the Akkadian Empire in Mesopotamia. The drought may have also initiated southeastward habitat tracking within the Indus Valley Civilization.

[WMarshal]

The trigger for this climate disaster was methane from Bactrian camel farts.

The earth really doesn’t give a shit what the gnats living on its surface do. 10,000 years ago the land on which New York City sits was under the mile-thick Laurentide ice sheet and, in 10 to 15 thousand years from now, that same ice sheet will waltz out of Canada and bulldoze that city into the sea.

[Mike Darancette]

They found that Hunshandake had deep lakes and rivers beginning some 12,000 years ago.

Not unlike Death Valley, CA.

[colorado tanker]

As the desert closest to Beijing, I suppose this is where the dust storms that sometimes envelope the city come from.

It is a shame that to get funding for interesting work like this the profs have to find some connection to "climate change."