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General => The Soap Box => Topic started by: hutch-- on February 15, 2023, 09:53:20 AM
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Poor bastards have been hit with a massive cyclone that has caused serious damage and severe flooding.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AL6TQ1_jmgo (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AL6TQ1_jmgo)
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Latest reports indicate over 1000 people are missing after the massive flooding. I just hope its not an indication of the death toll.
An earthquake has also added to the miseries.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2SVdGNEAcw (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2SVdGNEAcw)
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Best wishes for the Kiwis.
A lot of earthquakes happened during the last weeks. Iran, Syria/Turkey, now NZ ...
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A lot of earthquakes happened during the last weeks. Iran, Syria/Turkey
Severes earthquakes in this area where asociated with severe cyclical cooling around 1200 BC (3 little cycles ago). That finish previous "globalization", and only egyptian civilization survive more or less intact.
Everybody is worried by warmings, naturaly because we are in a warming. But the cold part of the cycle is always worst, and can be terrible.
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A Drought May Be Behind the “Bronze Age Collapse” (https://greekreporter.com/2022/05/14/a-drought-may-be-behind-the-bronze-age-collapse/)
The sediment showed a marked decline in marine plankton and pollen from marine sea grass starting around 1450 BC, until the lake, which was connected to the sea, became landlocked just 100 years later.
This indicates an extreme lack of rainwater during that period. Sediment from the lake also showed that by 1,200 BC, the period of the Bronze Age Collapse, agriculture in the area came to a halt and only started back up around 850 BC.
Such a dramatic environmental change, which would cause a lack of water and food, is thought to have spurred widespread revolts and social upheaval.
“This climate shift caused crop failures, dearth and famine, which precipitated or hastened socioeconomic crises and forced regional human migrations,” researchers wrote in the paper.
Considering that the drought started hundreds of years before the Bronze Age Collapse occurred, many probably did not realize that the climate had changed so dramatically until it was too late.
As usual, it's a little bit more complicated (https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01916122.2022.2067259) (and earthquakes had nothing to do with it) :cool:
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A Drought May Be Behind the “Bronze Age Collapse” (https://greekreporter.com/2022/05/14/a-drought-may-be-behind-the-bronze-age-collapse/)
:thumbsup: :thumbsup: Exactly. Drought is a consequence of cold climate.
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The theory of climatic causation to these events is subject to lively and contentious debate ... there is evidence that populations expanded not only despite long-term climatic shifts, but also due to them, with climatic adversity acting a stimulus rather than a hindrance to adequately structured societal/organisational adaptive strategies (https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01916122.2022.2067259)
During the late 3rd millennium BCE, the Eastern Mediterranean and Near East witnessed societal changes in many regions, which are usually explained with a combination of social and climatic factors. However, recent archaeogenetic research forces us to rethink models regarding the role of infectious diseases in past societal trajectories. The plague bacterium Yersinia pestis, ... (https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(22)01101-0)
As usual, it's a little bit more complicated (https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01916122.2022.2067259)
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I have recently watched a doco on why sites like Gobekli Tepe were buried and why sites like the underground cities in Turkey were built and occupied and it had to do with meteor showers back around the time of the Younger Drias. I did not absorb enough of the doco to remember enough of it but it was interesting stuff.