Thread by @fredontwittur

Scientists believe the Mayan civilization collapsed as a result of drought ca. 800-1000CE. The article I read then compared this to effects from climate change brought on by warming.

800-1000CE was the tail end of the (colder) Dark Ages that *preceded* the Medieval Warm Period.

People want to assign every change to our environment to Anthropogenic Global Warming (aka “Climate Change”). The reality is that we have a very poor understanding of our planet’s climate history and what the overall effects of the current warming period will be.

Based on estimates from ice core data, temperatures were warmer in the North Atlantic during Roman times than today. Temperatures seem to peak around the turn of each millennium, and they tend to bottom out halfway through, with some variation.

The general trend in temperatures over the last 8,000 years has been downward, and there’s no evidence that the Earth’s biosphere was in danger of sudden collapse 8,000 years ago, although a number of species did go extinct around that time and during the previous 3-4 millennia.

We like to believe that the Earth has always been as we see it now, but the reality is that the Earth is a harsh, unforgiving Death Planet. We’ve largely insulated ourselves from that with technology, and our lives are too short to see how much things have really changed.

Parts of Italy that were Roman harbors that are now dry not because of silt, but because the combination of *lower* sea level and geologic upthrust has pushed the sea farther out. We don’t comprehend that the glaciers covering Greenland once stretched to Louisville, KY.

We can’t accept that our planet’s surface from Tennessee to Nunavut is *still* rebounding from the 2-mile-thick ice sheet that covered it 10,000 years ago. We want to believe the Earth is as it always was, like it has always been fully-formed as God made it for us.

The fanatical devotion to “the climate models” that have failed to match reality for now over 40 years, the dire predictions of which have failed to come, is absolutely religious. Climate Change Movement is nothing more than the 20th Century’s version of the Millerites.

The only difference between Climate Change and Adventism is that Adventists gave a specific date, while Climate Alarmists have managed to largely avoid such hard numbers. There will be no Great Disappointment on October 22, 2044 because it’s always, “within the next few decades.”

Like Adventism the belief system has been created and will continue long into the future. It will survive every failed model, every illegitimate prediction, every inept comparison to past collapse. We are after all just a bunch of crazy, hairless apes on a spinning ball of dust.