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General => The Superdeep Borehole => Topic started by: Beardo on December 11, 2008, 03:07:23 PM

Title: It's time we get serious about climate change.
Post by: Beardo on December 11, 2008, 03:07:23 PM

Did Climate Change Kill the Roman Empire?
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/JustOneThing/story?id=6428550&page=1 (http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/JustOneThing/story?id=6428550&page=1)

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Scientists have discovered extraordinarily precise data on rainfall in the Mediterranean region from 200 B.C. to 1100 A.D. which suggests that the fall of the Roman and Byzantine empires may have been partly caused by climate change.

Okay this is some scary shit. If climate change could bring down the roman empire then it will certainly be the end of the world as we know it. Tomorrow I am ridding my bike to work and I promise to recycle all my plastic. I'm writing my state senator as we speak and asking him to ban all offshore drilling and to introduce a carbon tax bill ASAP.

WE CAN DO THIS IF WE WORK TOGETHER FOLKS!!!

Title: Re: It's time we get serious about climate change.
Post by: patrickula on December 11, 2008, 03:17:10 PM

You don't recycle plastic?

Title: Re: It's time we get serious about climate change.
Post by: Great Rumbler on December 11, 2008, 03:17:33 PM

2 medieval 2 depressing

Title: Re: It's time we get serious about climate change.
Post by: Beardo on December 11, 2008, 03:20:24 PM

Quote from: patrickula on December 11, 2008, 03:17:10 PM

You don't recycle plastic?

I didn't know man.

I DIDNT KNOW!! :'(

Title: Re: It's time we get serious about climate change.
Post by: Phoenix Dark on December 11, 2008, 03:21:48 PM

I always assumed it was the rampant homosexuality

Title: Re: It's time we get serious about climate change.
Post by: lordmaji on December 11, 2008, 03:22:46 PM

Quote from: Thanks But No Thanks on December 11, 2008, 03:21:48 PM

I always assumed it was the rampant homosexuality

We could only hope.  :-*

Title: Re: It's time we get serious about climate change.
Post by: Eric P on December 11, 2008, 03:23:50 PM

if it were the rampant homosexuality, evilbore would have gone down so hard it necessitated a server change




oh god






oh GOD

Title: Re: It's time we get serious about climate change.
Post by: fistfulofmetal on December 11, 2008, 03:25:30 PM

WE DIDN'T LISTEN

Title: Re: It's time we get serious about climate change.
Post by: lordmaji on December 11, 2008, 03:27:49 PM

Well... really. The Byzantine Empire was brought down by the Ottoman Turks in 1453 AD.

Title: Re: It's time we get serious about climate change.
Post by: Beardo on December 11, 2008, 03:28:35 PM

Quote from: lordmaji on December 11, 2008, 03:27:49 PM

Well... really. The Byzantine Empire was brought down by the Ottoman Turks in 1453 AD.

The debate is over. IT WAS CLIMATE CHANGE!!!

Title: Re: It's time we get serious about climate change.
Post by: Great Rumbler on December 11, 2008, 03:35:59 PM

Quote from: lordmaji on December 11, 2008, 03:27:49 PM

Well... really. The Byzantine Empire was brought down by the Ottoman Turks in 1453 AD.

It also probably didn't help too much that Constantinople was a favorite pillaging spot for the later Crusades.

Title: Re: It's time we get serious about climate change.
Post by: lordmaji on December 11, 2008, 03:36:13 PM

Quote from: Beardo on December 11, 2008, 03:28:35 PM

Quote from: lordmaji on December 11, 2008, 03:27:49 PM

Well... really. The Byzantine Empire was brought down by the Ottoman Turks in 1453 AD.

The debate is over. IT WAS CLIMATE CHANGE!!!

Yes sir! :bow2

WE SHOULD HAVE LISTENED!  :o  :'(

Title: Re: It's time we get serious about climate change.
Post by: Madrun Badrun on December 11, 2008, 03:46:06 PM

lol.  I hear the war in iraq and the current market crisis are also caused by climate change.  And butt sex. 

Title: Re: It's time we get serious about climate change.
Post by: recursivelyenumerable on December 11, 2008, 03:59:10 PM

iirc this (at least for the Romans) has been a semi-mainstream thesis for some time now.  I think I remember seeing it mentioned in Larry Gonick's "Cartoon History of the Universe"

Title: Re: It's time we get serious about climate change.
Post by: demi on December 11, 2008, 04:00:08 PM

Quote from: Eric P on December 11, 2008, 03:23:50 PM

if it were the rampant homosexuality, evilbore would have gone down so hard it necessitated a server change




oh god






oh GOD

but we are back, because of my undying want and desire for you riding my face

Title: Re: It's time we get serious about climate change.
Post by: Eric P on December 11, 2008, 04:03:46 PM

Quote from: demi on December 11, 2008, 04:00:08 PM

Quote from: Eric P on December 11, 2008, 03:23:50 PM

if it were the rampant homosexuality, evilbore would have gone down so hard it necessitated a server change




oh god






oh GOD

but we are back, because of my undying want and desire for you riding my face

i'm sorry demi,  if we consummate your love, then evilbore will forever be destroyed

it's just like twilight

only fatter

and harrier

Title: Re: It's time we get serious about climate change.
Post by: demi on December 11, 2008, 04:12:09 PM

I am ok with that. I am a hands-off kind of guy. Just continue forwarding pics and/or vids.