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.
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.
They had lead in their cups which killed off a lot of their leadership. For the last several centuries they had strict governmental controls on prices and production. If your dad was a blacksmith you were one too. They also had the islamic deathcult to contend with. There was no patent office or real freedom for people. Any climate change in a static society such as this would have only hastened an inevitable fall.
“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”
Hey there, buddy, they didn’t have cars in ancient Rome. This is not so much the politically correct party line. And it stands to reason. I seem to remember there being a “Little Ice Age” during the Dark Ages, which subsided when the Middle Ages rolled along.
Wait, I didn’t really mean to say it stands to reason. I haven’t thought about it enough. An Ice Age would be the opposite of what they’re talking about here (i.e. global warming).
I thought the theory that global cooling played a part in ushering in the dark ages in Europe was quite common.