Also: those dang kids and their…well, they call it music.
January 14, 2011
Study: Climate change contributed to rise and fall of Roman empire
“Periods of climate instability overlapped with political turmoil, such as during the decline of the Roman empire, and might even have made Europeans vulnerable to the Black Death or help explain migration to America during the chill 17th century.”
Must have been all the SUVs.
Via Memeorandum.
More: Jammie Wearing Fool says:
Reuters seems to downplay the role of barbarians, or as they’re more commonly known, liberals.
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Actually, global COOLING may have been pretty important in the fall of the Empire. In the late fifth century, through at least the eighth, shortened growing seasons and wetter weather caused crop failure, moldy grain, the usual Medieval miseries. The sequestration of more water at the poles may have led to the couple of centuries of drought in Arabia, well attested, which eventually resulted in the increasing violence in the peninsula, until a bipolar caravan trader gave them an ideology and took their show out to the wider world.
So, no SUV to blame, but cyclical climate change probably did have quite an impact.
The Roman version of the SUV:
SIX horses pulling the chariot, rather than TWO.