Timothy Birdnow

So, now they are telling us drought ended the Mayan civilization in the Yucatan. Very interesting.

Most Mayan cities were abandoned between 800 and 950 AD. That was during the Medieval Warming Period. Now, Climate Change true believers hate the Medieval WArming Period and have tried very hard to say it was just a European phenomenon but tthis strongly suggests otherwise. The Yucatan area was under very unusual precipitation patterns and that suggests changes to the jet stream.

I would point out that at this time the Mound Builders aka the Mississippians were busily constructing their own civilization, with Cahokia as their capital (everyone who gets around St. Louis should visit Cahokia Mounds to see the remnants of this once-great civilization). Cahokia flourished because it was warmer and crops grew better in the alluvial soil of the Mississippi valley. That civilization flourished wsith the MWP and died with the coming of the Little Ice Age. By the time the Turks seized Constantinople Cahokia was completely abandoned (it was entirely empty by 1400 or so.) It became a place of legends among the native Americans and in fact few wanted to live anywhere near it.

In South America The Chimú saw their civilization flourish between 900 and 1470 - conveniently collapsing at the tail end of the Medieval Warming Period. And the Incans were weakened by civil war, a civil war that no doubt was driven in part by the warming at the end of a cold snap.

I could go on, from the rise of the Mongols to the explosion of the Arabs and elsewhere. The fact is the climate changed and grew cold world-wide. This article is just more proof of that.

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