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New Study Blames Fall of Roman Empire on ‘Climate Change’

Jan. 14, 2011 10:41pm Meredith Jessup

Forget what you thought you knew about history and the fall of Ancient Rome. A new study published in Science magazine suggests climate change actually played a major role in bringing down history’s most infamous decline of civilization.

It turns out that tree rings are leading many scientists to believe that shifts in climate affected farming and amplified political, social and economic crises.

“Climate change seems a factor in the rise and fall of the Roman empire, according to a study of ancient tree growth that urges greater awareness of the risks of global warming in the 21st century,” Reuters reports.

The review, by experts in Germany, Austria, the United States and Switzerland, extended study of tree rings 1,000 years beyond previous analyses. Thick rings indicate good growth conditions while narrow ones mean poor.

The study said the evidence, helping back up written records that are sparse in Europe more than 500 years ago, “may challenge recent political and fiscal reluctance” to slow projected climate change in the 21st century.

Modern societies seem less vulnerable but “are certainly not immune” to climate change, especially because migration “will not be an option in an increasingly crowded world,” they wrote.

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LDRussell
Posted on December 10, 2011 at 9:41am
Article must have been written by a progressive, environmentalist or both.

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The Bees
Posted on January 17, 2011 at 1:17pm
Talk about revisionist history!

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timebandit
Posted on January 17, 2011 at 12:45pm
News to the Visogoths!

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Clambake
Posted on January 17, 2011 at 10:14am
Actually, I think the real culprit is that the Romans voted for change they could believe in.

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donottreadonme
Posted on January 17, 2011 at 12:39am
There are lies, damned lies, and statistics. We must now add climatologists to that list.

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happytheman
Posted on January 16, 2011 at 10:06pm
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA give it UP :-)

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Danny Newton
Posted on January 16, 2011 at 8:03pm
As a point of Social Justice, would it be OK to get my money back from the university system that told me that the causes of the Fall of the Roman Empire was not Gorbal Warming? They pointed out a debasement of the currency or decreasing silver content in coins, civil debauchery, corruption,civil war and political succession via frequent assassination. There was also a problem with over extension of the military. The failure to protect their borders and the tendency to pay off the barbarians and their own military also was mentioned. After the Romans stopped consuming most of the worlds energy and food, I believe Europe fell into what was called the Dark Ages.

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Saratoga
Posted on January 16, 2011 at 5:33pm
Let me get this straight,,,Tree ring comparison, or some such, from trees that date back to, oh, let’s see,,357 AD show climate shifts made the Vandals and Visigoths tear the Roman Empire apart???I’ve been to Rome,,,There isn’t a tree more than 40 years old within 150 miles of the place.What were these people drawing their data from ? Methinks I smell fouled data, or an out and out lie!

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RCScrolls
Posted on January 16, 2011 at 5:31pm
Yht nice thing is that they didnt have cars in Rome.
Global warming is a fact, but its natural cuases are fact aswell.
Polar shifts Co2 etc all interact. More Co2 the better and bigger our plants grow.
not a problem. the last decade we have acxtually cooled down not heated up.
well I wonder what they will try next other than try keeping this man made garbadge alive.

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philby
Posted on January 16, 2011 at 5:06pm
Sooo, it wasnt Neros torches that lit up Rome?
It was that damn global warming that made those structures catch fire.
Glad thats out of the way.

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Kookaburra
Posted on January 16, 2011 at 4:17pm
Really now!? It figures this was a “scientific” opinion. I suppose their Sodomic history and putrid debauchery had nothing to do with their demise?

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ReligionOfPeaceMyAss
Posted on January 16, 2011 at 3:19pm
Damn all those carbon emitting chariots and coal fired power plants the Romans had was just too much for ole mother earth to handle… ;-)

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barrycooper
Posted on January 16, 2011 at 2:49pm
I wonder how many of those clowns could name 5 Roman Emperors, or describe the Roman Republic. I wonder if any of them have SHRED of understanding of the actual history.

The hypotheses contained in the Global Warming climate models have been falsified by reality. The simple fact is: they predict NOTHING. What happens is the weather does whatever it does, THEN they claim retroactively that it’s all perfectly obvious how it fits into a “pattern”.

It does fit into a pattern: grant-driven mental and moral dementia.

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ptizzle
Posted on January 16, 2011 at 2:23pm
LOL, this is what Science magazine puts out, WOW, they are dumb.

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goodwin
Posted on January 16, 2011 at 1:46pm
get rid of Soros and the illuminati and we don’t have to listen to this nonsense anymore. God, this stuff just gets old. Speaking of destroying. Just take a look up in the sky sometime and see all the chemtrails they are killing our society with. Everyday, our blue sky in California is sprayed all day long. I cannot even recognize the plane that is spewing the chemicals all over the lake and mountains and our homes. Ask Bill Gates or Soros if they know who ordered the chemtrails?

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- Kookaburra
  Posted on January 16, 2011 at 4:19pm
  Amen brother! You are so right!
  
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dwh320
Posted on January 16, 2011 at 1:13pm
I also hear that dandruff was caused by global warming… as well as the common cold and cavities..

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UlyssesP
Posted on January 16, 2011 at 1:09pm
This is an attempt to discredit the first chapter of “Broke”. Is this all that they can come up with?

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KenMacMillan
Posted on January 16, 2011 at 1:06pm
This isn’t new, it’s called the little ice age & has been known for years. Gauls who had been driven from their homeland by the Mongols were starving & thanks to an unusually cold winter they were able to cross the frozen Rhine on foot & ask the Romans for sanctuary. After years of abuse by the Romans they rebelled & took down the western half of the empire. It sounds like a rebranding for political purposes, how could written records from 500 years ago matter at all?

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Phr34k
Posted on January 16, 2011 at 12:54pm
Ugh.

Reading the story, they of course mention “climate change”. And why not? Climate change has been happening from the moment the earth was created. They didn’t say anything in this article that indicated the climate change came about as the result of human interaction with the environment. This is what makes us recoil.

The idea that we as humans are influencing the world wide climate is preposterous, nonsensensicle and a lie at best.

Do not let these climate Nazi’s affect your brain by causing you to knee-jerk everytime you hear or see the words, “climate change”.

It has long been felt that climate change, has had something to do with not only the fall of Rome, (though it played more of a “straw that broke the camel’s back” role), but also it has seemed to play a role during the Dark Ages, (cooler), and the Renaissance, (warmer).

Never has anyone posited that “man-made” climate change has affected anything, until recent decades.

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Rational Man
Posted on January 16, 2011 at 12:51pm
All I have to say is, FOLLOW THE MONEY, to find the motive behind this study!
That is IF you don’t already know.

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Akira Gomi
Posted on January 16, 2011 at 12:20pm
Climate changes are part of the end time of the Gentiles. Have you notice that the European influence in the world is coming to an end? Look at whats taken it’s place, Obama, Chavez, Amahdenjahd, Sharpton, Jackson, etc,etc,etc, Godless progressives. These are the prepatories to the next generation of Godless degenerates in the system who will take over. It is meant to usher in thier destruction. At this point climate change is not man made. It’s the Sun and our position to Galactic center thats causing all the climate problems. So let me ask? Is man the cause of the Sun changes or earth quakes? Yup because of our black souls spewing hate, LOWEST BASE VIBRATION. The vast maority of people on this earth are based out and seek not the higher order of spirtuality, but instead love and run after animal like behavior. Human nature never changes! The progressives think they have the answer. Look at their history, they have proven over and over that genocide is all they have to offer, so we reap what we sow. The big quakes and a comet strikes are a cumin, the grand alignment in the heavens is about to occur in 2012. This marks the beginning of the most darkest and henious time in all of Earth’s history, more people are about to die then ever has occured on this planet. Ready for this “The Heavens will be closed for twenty minutes” (Gods time about 25 years). That means nothing but hell on earth, Gods protection will be lifted off the earth.. It’s all in the scriptures my fellow Christains. The rest of you liberal hate mongers, may I suggest you get a running start and kick harder against the *****…God will feed you your own flesh..Canabalism is a cumin too.. YIKES!

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swimmer1940
Posted on January 16, 2011 at 12:04pm
Rome fell because: 1) They chose not to reproduce. 2) They took in copious amount of lead through their plumbing pipes. 3) They enslaved millions, and allowed them to outnumber the Roman Citizenry. 4) They spread themselves too thin, ergo unable to control their imperial territories. 5) They divided themselves into two parts, east and west. 6) It was their time to fade into history as may be time for the USA as a world leader.
It isn’t S–t that happens, but history, and history will have its way. This especially true with a country that has so failed to learn the lessons of history as we in the U.S have done. Can I say FAT, LAZY, ENNUI, Laizzez Faire attitude, a government that knows no boundaries, and a barbarian invasion that goes unchecked.

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Fedupwithprogressives
Posted on January 16, 2011 at 11:51am
OK, let’s just say it was climate change that caused the fall of the Roman Empire. That would then mean that all the claims made today that humans are causing climate change are false. What was the world population then? Half a billion? No factories no coal no oil burning, so what caused it? Definitely not humans. Even Greenland 1000 years ago was 2 deg warmer than it is today and the Vikings had colonies there that died off when the climate cooled. Go figure.

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drago
Posted on January 16, 2011 at 11:36am
Lot of “facts” being spited off in here, fact is, the golbal warming scientists have ruined all credibility in science period, in my opinion, so quoting scientific “fact” here, or elsewhere, is iffy at best.Take gov. funding of science away, then lets see IF the true facts about anything comes out…..

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