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Post by Deleted on Feb 22, 2017 4:10:24 GMT -5
Circa A.D. 626 volcanic eruption, climatic cooling, and the collapse of the Eastern Turkic Empire by Jie Fei & Jie Zhou & Yongjian Hou.
The severe winters (Zud) of Mongolia can be catastrophic for the nomadic peoples and their livestock. Between the years of 627-629 AD the Türks of Mongolia suffered a 3 year Zud, the heavy snowfall led to mass livestock deaths and starvation. By 630, the Türks were defeated by the Tang dynasty and served the Chinese till 682AD. Was there a connection between the Zud and the volcanic explosion of 626 AD? link www.aari.ru/docs/pub/070316/fei07.pdfUnfortunately, this winter is not looking good. www.newser.com/story/238681/a-dzud-comes-every-12-years-except-for-this-time.html
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Post by deuce on Feb 22, 2017 21:46:11 GMT -5
Circa A.D. 626 volcanic eruption, climatic cooling, and the collapse of the Eastern Turkic Empire by Jie Fei & Jie Zhou & Yongjian Hou.
The severe winters (Zud) of Mongolia can be catastrophic for the nomadic peoples and their livestock. Between the years of 627-629 AD the Türks of Mongolia suffered a 3 year Zud, the heavy snowfall led to mass livestock deaths and starvation. By 630, the Türks were defeated by the Tang dynasty and served the Chinese till 682AD. Was there a connection between the Zud and the volcanic explosion of 626 AD? link www.aari.ru/docs/pub/070316/fei07.pdfUnfortunately, this winter is not looking good. www.newser.com/story/238681/a-dzud-comes-every-12-years-except-for-this-time.html Interesting stuff! I hadn't heard of that. That would match up pretty closely to the rise of the Religion of Peace. There have been several theories positing that perhaps some sort of ecological crisis helped drive Arab expansion out of the Peninsula. It might even be possible to conjecture that the event in 536AD set things up/destabilized the situation, and then the knock-on effects of whatever happened in the late 620s was the straw that broke the camel's back, so to speak. Here is one look at the "Arabian ecological crisis" idea: cliodynamics.ru/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=270&Itemid=1,
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Post by Deleted on Feb 23, 2017 14:36:14 GMT -5
Thanks for the link. Yeah, I think, it was probably a combination of ecological and political factors that lead to the Arab/Islamic conquest. The Byzantine–Sasanian War between the years 602–628 also left both empires weakened and vulnerable to Arab expansion. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine–Sasanian_War_of_602–628
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Post by deuce on Mar 14, 2017 19:36:55 GMT -5
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Post by deuce on Apr 19, 2017 21:58:00 GMT -5
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Post by deuce on Jun 20, 2017 22:12:42 GMT -5
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Post by deuce on Jun 28, 2017 16:49:52 GMT -5
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Post by deuce on Jul 23, 2017 13:06:41 GMT -5
Harley Bretz was right and the "gradualists" were wrong. They tried to destroy his career, but Bretz won in the end. The phenomenon of gradualists denying any possibility of cataclysms -- only to be proven wrong -- just keeps happening. news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/03/channeled-scablands/The Channeled Scablands.
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Post by deuce on Sept 29, 2017 13:25:04 GMT -5
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Post by deuce on Jan 20, 2018 17:20:58 GMT -5
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Post by kemp on Jan 26, 2018 22:27:36 GMT -5
In 2012, the Earth missed the blast from a massive solar flare by one week: nypost.com/2014/07/24/solar-flare-nearly-destroyed-earth-two-years-ago-nasa/It would have utterly crippled global high-tech civilization. NASA told no one for 2 years. Think about that. The Carrington Flare of 1859 created an electromagnetic storm for two days which played havoc with the infant communication network of the time. Reports of telegraph wires bursting into flames and telegraph machines with scorched printouts, compasses went haywire. I would not want to imagine what a massive solar flare would do to our infrastructure so dependent on communication technology these days. I can hazard a guess that it would mean massive power outages and disruption of communication services, damage to electronics, damage to computer devices and the net going down. I don't believe it would mean anything as dramatic as sending us back to the stone age, but if the damage was done long term and digital technology was severely effected it would mean taking us back by several decades, and civilisation of our magnitude is a costly endeavour to run as it is.
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Post by deuce on Feb 3, 2018 19:52:22 GMT -5
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Post by deuce on Mar 30, 2018 10:24:44 GMT -5
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Post by deuce on Sept 9, 2018 18:56:00 GMT -5
An excellent presentation by geologist, Randall Carlson, on Lake Missoula and the catastrophic formation of the Scablands:
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Post by deuce on Nov 16, 2018 0:55:56 GMT -5
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