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August 03, 2026

Bronze Age Emissions

Timothy Birdnow

I guess it was all those SUV chariots they were dri ving...

Scientists Reveal the Climate "Perfect Storm” Behind an Ancient Civilizational Collapse

This article claims climate changes led to droughts and other climate disasters that led to the collapse of the Bronze Age civilization.

Maybe in part. Part of it though was that the Bronze Age civilizations were, as now, heavily dependent on international trade and when the Sea People showed up and disrupted that trade their economies collapsed.

At any rate how could they have faced climate change when they didn't have industrial emissions or internal combustion engines to emit greenhouse gases? We've been told repeatedly that that is the cause of any planetary warming, that carbon dioxide is the "thermostat" of the climate.

Maybe they had cap and trade back then to guarantee low emissions from the tailpipes of their chariots and wagons.

Here is the money quote:

"Our results show that the region underwent a gradual drying trend over thousands of years, driven by slow changes in Earth’s orbit."

So, it wasn't carbon dioxide levels at all but slow changes in Earth's orbit. How interesting!

The article continues:

"Their combined effects reinforced one another, creating dry periods much more severe than the gradual long-term decline alone would have produced."

well, what do you know? Natural forces came together over a longer period to cause relatively rapid climate change - the very condition we are seeing today that is being blamed on industrial emissions and are being called "too quick" for natural processes.

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1 Naw, it was those Toyota Priuses (Prii?) they were driving that causes the problems.

Posted by: Dana Mathewson at August 03, 2026 10:51 PM (+uala)

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