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Mayan Drought?| Dref |
Posted: Nov 16 2010, 12:45 PM
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Is there any truth to the claim that the Mayans died out because of climate change?
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| Andrew |
Posted: Nov 17 2010, 08:50 PM
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Yes, there is a study that points to this due to changes in solar activity,
Changes In Sun’s Intensity Tied To Recurrent Droughts In Maya Region (University of Florida) The peer-reviewed paper is on the list, Solar Forcing of Drought Frequency in the Maya Lowlands (Science, Volume 292, Number 5520, pp. 1367-1370, May 2001) - David A. Hodell et al. |
 
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| Dref |
Posted: Nov 17 2010, 11:04 PM
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That's what I thought. The AGW crowd, of course, tries to claim it was man made.
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| Andrew |
Posted: Nov 17 2010, 11:17 PM
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The Mayans were around for hundreds to thousands of years sustainably and then all of the sudden just started practicing unsustainable agriculture and forestry? That just doesn't make any sense to me, especially with the near unlimited resources available to them.
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| Dref |
Posted: Apr 2 2011, 11:11 AM
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Also, it is absurd for alarmists to equate one group of people from thousands of years ago to the entire world today as if somehow that can tell us something about how similar climate change would affect the entire population in modern times.
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