The rocks have long gooves - glacial striations - cut into them when the glaciers dragged debris across the bedrock. 
Posted on 07/30/2020 12:33:27 PM PDT by artichokegrower
A new study suggests the Mediterranean Sea was the warmest during the Roman Empire than any other time in the past 2,000 years
The research, published in Scientific Reports, notes the Mediterranean was 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit (2 degrees Celsius) warmer "than average values for the late centuries for the Sicily and Western Mediterranean regions.
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Romans ate a lot of beans too
I believe Diodorus Siculus (1st century BC) says that they don’t grow grapes in Gaul (roughly modern France) because it’s too cold.
Is that why we can’t get good garum these days?
The fish originally used doesn’t survive in the colder waters?
Polar Bears like it colder and you know we need more Polar Bears, right?
;-)
2000 years??????
I love Central Park and pay at least a quick visit every time I get to NYC. I could never understand why it has all those rocky outcrops all over the place.But a year or two ago I stumbled upon a website that says that those outcrops (I forget what they’re officially called) represent irrefutable proof that that little spot of land now known as “Central Park” was,a few thousand years ago,enveloped in a glacier about a half mile thick.
Oh noooes...paging the now little heard from Greta....Greta must be working on her post Doctoral thesis on climatology....or her high school service project...CNN???
Well you see, they scoop out sand at the bottom of the sea, then take measurements of the microscopic dead critters, then figure out how much they should have measured 2000 years ago, divide the difference by the Roman Emperor’s hat size, 2,000 years ago, multiply it by 2000, divide it by the size of the recent dead critters, and subtract the difference, check which way the political winds are blowing, make a computer model to fit all that, and presto chango, there you go!
Kids today read poems from Maya Angelou in school, not stuff from dead old white heterosexual men. So how would they know that?
They don’t read Plato’s Republic, and that’s why they think they live in a Democracy, not a republic (they just regurgitate what they hear on the web/TV). They don’t learn to read nor write in cursive, what our Constitution and Declaration of Independence are written in. Clemon’s impacting the English language and one of the most significant US writers is essentially excluded (not PC today). The English Epic poem Beowulf few will read as part of their great public education, but my son did tell me all about global warming coming home from school. Shakespeare, many will never be exposed to... but they will read literature that is contemporary and deemed relevant because it deals with or was written by a homosexual, female, or black person.
With few morals (replaced by secular situational dependent ethics), culture and a poor public education, you can convince people of just about anything.
viticulture in Roman Britain. Mentions it being warmer https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/veni-vidi-viticulture-remains-of-roman-vineyards-found-in-uk-738723.html?&cf=1
At some point the Romans had vineyards in Great Britain.
Also there was long cold snap during the time of the Black Death. Theory is rats and their fleas moved closer to humans.
Scoldilocks Greta is beating her Asperger’s addled noggin on her Bedroom Headboard with this news.
They could swim in the ocean sans fear from attack by Jaws. The downside being you'd have to swim in stercis pulmenti.
*ping*
Exactly!!!
The rocks have long gooves - glacial striations - cut into them when the glaciers dragged debris across the bedrock.
Yup...and the glacier seems to have left at least one umbrella behind.
But you are right that the germ laden water was a serious danger. Lots of people died of dysentery back then.
I’m curious as to what kind of thermometers they were using 2000 years ago.
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