Posted on 02/01/2024 5:47:46 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
Agree they fail to understand how many times the earth has changed temperatures and why it wasn’t born this temperature.
For many, many, many years now I realized. The Smithsonian may as well be a tabloid organization.
It is sacrilege to Breitbart’s life.
I did not note any advocacy of the Smithsonian article by Breitbart in their article. It read, at least to me, as a report on an article/press release by the Smithsonian. What I got from the article is that the Smithsonian is fully in the hands of the ‘globull warmists’ and no longer do science.
But the title sucks.
“The Roman Empire rises and falls and rises and falls,” said co-author Kyle Harper, a classicist at the University of Oklahoma.
“There's a series of episodes of very extreme crises in some cases. And I think the case is now overwhelmingly clear that both climate change and pandemic disease had a role in many of those episodes,” he added.
Smithsonian is fully in the hands of the ‘globull warmists’ and no longer do science.
So what was high temperature in Rome on March 15, 44BC (date of Caesar’s assassination)? Was it a sunny day or cloudy? So if there are no historical records of temperatures how can one attribute plagues to climate change?
We can however infer that there was a Roman warming period that persisted in Europe from about 250 BC until 400 AD and temperatures were likely warmer than today. However from about 400 AD until 800 AD Europe was colder then from 950 to 1250 Europe was again warmer. That Medieval warm period gave way to what was called the little Ice Age which persisted possibly until the early 19th century. However without any meaningful surface temperatures these changes can only be speculation. Yes, the earth has climatic changes, but it would be laughable to think these climatic changes were due to any human activity.
This confirms climate change is natural and normal according to the climate record.
“ Te earth is coming out of an ice age. It’s has been for 12-13,000 years. It’s moving back towards a warmer climate.”
The average interglacial period of this recent ice age is around 15-20,000 years, so we’re on the downside of this particular warm period.
Really? I know the last ice age lasted 70,000 year or so…so the interglacial time is less than half of that? That doesn’t seem fair! Ha Ha.
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