Posted on 02/01/2024 4:26:51 AM PST by Mr. Mojo
ROME — Long before the industrial revolution and fossil fuels, “climate change” was wreaking havoc on the health of ancient Romans, Smithsonian magazine contends.
Citing a study published in the journal Science Advances, Smithsonian underscores a correlation between cold, dry periods in ancient Rome and “devastating bouts of fatal illness” between 200 BC and 600 AD.
Whereas Rome enjoyed stable weather from 200 to 100 BC, it later suffered “three very cold periods,” all of which “line up with documented plagues,” states Smithsonian writer Sarah Kuta.
The first cold spell, which struck the Roman Empire between 160 and 180 AD, corresponds almost perfectly to the period of the Antonine Plague (also called the Plague of Galen), which caused diarrhea, fever, and pustular eruptions of the skin and left an estimated 5-10 million dead, some 10 percent of the population of the empire.
The second cold period occurred between 245 and 274 AD and coincided with the Plague of Cyprian (250-266 AD), an outbreak costing an estimated 5,000 lives daily in the Roman Empire.
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If they had switched to electric cars who knows??? The Roman empire could still be standing.
The ancient Romans died from common winter colds and flu
Who nu ???
So ... Global Warming is good.
If that’s the case, then it’s a natural phenomenon and there nothing we can do to change it. So, fire up your gas stove, gas cars, gas mowers, etc.
Yes!
The obvious lesson is that warm weather is GOOD!
We have had a very mild winter here in Ohio and I am very happy for that fact.
Since I am suffering through the Biden economy the low gas bills are a welcome side effect of a mild winter.
Global Warming works for me.
Well... You don’t want to be too hot, or too cold. Room temperature is the best, but that’s hard to achieve in a natural setting.
That’s why they call it ‘nature’.
btt
Just a guess: When so many people are led to be fearful of weather - and thereby, of life - things adjust, and people find that God or nature or both, will force such people into the world.
Instead of “sheltering in place,” that is the leftist “experts” with “expertese” prescription that confirms to public broadcast “journalism.”
“confirms” - > conforms
Follow the science!!
Is the Smithsonian trying to kick the modern day climate Nazis in the crotch?
I suspect that oral hygiene and availability of food, materials for clothing and shelter, water, and routes for transport and travel, in addition to strategic consideration of the defensible site where the village was sited . . . along with knowledge of the bad guys and worries about the as-yet-unknown bad guys . . . affected:
What do we do, next?
Until the mobile phone showed up.
Reads like a Babylon Bee headline.
There IS considerable evidence linking cold spells that lasted for years to the land becoming more marginal, food production thus dropping, the population not being as well nourished and the death rates from communicable diseases exploding.
Warmer weather is associated with human flourishing. Colder weather is associated with the opposite. This is a pattern that repeated multiple times.
The evidence would indicate global warming is good for humanity.
Critical thinkers might look at this and say to the Climate Alarmists:
"Well, you concede then that we had an abnormal warming period centuries before man began driving cars and building industrial plants? So I am to conclude that warming or cooling on a global scale is not tied to anthropogenic CO2 emissions? Therefore, any money we spend or sacrifice to combat climate change due to man-caused CO2 emissions is a waste of money?"
People who are suffering from cold and have less to eat have weakened immune systems.
Rats, Lice, and History by Hans Zinsser (1934) provides some interesting insights on various plagues throughout history. And yes unsanitary conditions were often great contributors.
The job of the Smithsonian is to obscure true knowledge rather than spread it.
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