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Climate may have caused Rome to fall
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| Dec. 6, 2008
Posted on 12/06/2008 5:55:08 AM PST by grjr21
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To bad They never had an Emperor Gore around .He could have mandated production of low emission horses
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posted on
12/06/2008 5:55:08 AM PST
by
grjr21
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climate change may have caused the fall of the Roman and Byzantine Empires.
And all this time I thought it was Bush's fault.
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posted on
12/06/2008 5:56:13 AM PST
by
oh8eleven
(RVN '67-'68)
To: grjr21
Right. Not Germans or Moslems or anything. Climate change.
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posted on
12/06/2008 5:57:46 AM PST
by
Tax-chick
("Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance." ~Sam Brown)
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posted on
12/06/2008 5:58:15 AM PST
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Phoenix11
To: grjr21
Geologists say a discovery in a cave near Jerusalem suggests climate change may have caused the fall of the Roman and Byzantine Empires. How convenient that it just happens now that these geniuses have found the "real" reason, that just happens to coincide with a politically correct hysteria about climate change. These "geologists" are looking for grant money from a source that's out of their normal realm - "climate change" grants. These people are either G-d d@mn fools or ruthless charlatans to suppose that they have suddenly found the "real" reason Rome fell, after two millenia of historians investigating and writing about it.
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posted on
12/06/2008 6:03:51 AM PST
by
Hardastarboard
(Why do I find the Toyota "Saved by Zero" ads so ironic?)
To: grjr21
How about never having learned to fight on horseback??
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posted on
12/06/2008 6:05:15 AM PST
by
wendy1946
To: grjr21
"Whether this is what weakened the Byzantines or not isn't known, but it is an interesting correlation," Translation: I don't know, but I want some free publicity.
I could just as easily say the lack of fresh slave girls demoralized the Roman army which contributed to bad performance.
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posted on
12/06/2008 6:05:50 AM PST
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CE2949BB
(Fight.)
To: Hardastarboard
Rocks in a cave suggest climate change caused the fall of the Roman Empire.
I don’t know about you but every time I took a suggestion from an inanimate object I’ve lived to regret it.
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posted on
12/06/2008 6:11:31 AM PST
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grjr21
To: Hardastarboard
I would guess Rome really fell from government over-spending, defunding their military for welfare spending, and a breakdown in the culture caused by assimilation failure. Climate change would be a real long shot.
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posted on
12/06/2008 6:12:05 AM PST
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Reeses
(Leftism is powered by the evil force of envy.)
To: grjr21
This story is bull flatulence from Madistan where common sense is forbidden by fiat.
We all know that climate change only happens when evil entrepreneurs try to make a profit and have free markets. It takes the collective to direct us in the ways of the Goregons and Bommabots.
Where are the revolutionaries when we need them?
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posted on
12/06/2008 6:12:14 AM PST
by
Steamburg
( Your wallet speaks the only language most politicians understand.)
To: grjr21
Well, at least the Romans fixed it by getting rid of all those cars.
To: Tax-chick
Not Germans or Moslems or anything. Um, Muslims weren't for another couple hundred years. The Goths, upper Germanic tribes that the Romans considered subhuman and oppressed - that's another story.
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posted on
12/06/2008 6:16:34 AM PST
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Desdemona
(Tolerance of grave evil is NOT a Christian virtue (I choose virtue. Values change too often).)
To: grjr21
Apparently the same with the Anasazi in the NA SW. No food is a problem.
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posted on
12/06/2008 6:18:31 AM PST
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Paladin2
(No, pundits strongly believe that the proper solution is more dilution.)
To: Reeses
I would guess Rome really fell from government over-spending, defunding their military for welfare spending, and a breakdown in the culture caused by assimilation failure. Not to mention adoption of immoral lifestyles and the weakening of the will to defend the empire. Talk about self-indulgent, decadent cultures. Not many in written history surpass it.
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12/06/2008 6:19:15 AM PST
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Desdemona
(Tolerance of grave evil is NOT a Christian virtue (I choose virtue. Values change too often).)
Did the Romans use squiggly torches to save on their lighting?
To: Desdemona
“Not to mention adoption of immoral lifestyles and the weakening of the will to defend the empire.”
Sounds, frightenly, familiar.
To: grjr21
If it was climate change it was because the earth COOLED.
Back then grapes for wine were grown in Northern England.
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posted on
12/06/2008 6:22:51 AM PST
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Leo Farnsworth
(I'm not really Leo Farnsworth...)
To: Reeses
You just named most of the REAL major reasons Rome fell, and I’m willing to bet you’re not even a geologist.
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posted on
12/06/2008 6:23:19 AM PST
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Hardastarboard
(Why do I find the Toyota "Saved by Zero" ads so ironic?)
To: Desdemona
Good ole moral corruption destroyed Rome and it’s starting to do the same in the ole US of A. Short of a real spiritual revival we are headed down the same road, but our republic is only 200 years old.
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posted on
12/06/2008 6:23:37 AM PST
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Rodm
(Seest thou a ,,diligent in his business? He shall stand before kings)
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