Comments by "Arthur Mosel" (@arthurmosel808) on "Highly Compelling"
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@NeptunesLagoon Please check your data, sea level was around 400 feet lower about 17,000 years ago. There was still extensive glacierization at that point. The ice and land bridge from Siberia to Alaska existed at least at the beginning of this time. I do agree that further back there was even more ice in some past periods; however the Earth has cycled between hot and cold throughout eons. Check out the three orbital cycles, one of which has the Earth in an extremely elliptical orbit somewhere around every 100,000 years. There was a cartoon around in the 70's when the fear was of a new ice age; it featured an ant on a leaf floating down a river demanding the drawbridge be raised. Mankind believing that it can change/control the climate is equivalent to that ant's belief that the drawbridge needed to be raised for him. The climate will change whether we want it to or not. We have yet to identify all the causes of climate change; that is why none of the models have accurately predicted climate changes. I remember hearing Al Gore confidently predict all Arctic Ice would be gone a decade ago. I saw the satellite pictures of Arctic ice covered with dust from explosions used by Russia rerouting rivers to run to the north coast of Siberia trying to allow Siberia to warm. That dust actually allowed more melting of the ice;. Yes man can affect climate, however, the same ice melt disrupts the Gulf Stream that warms the North American Continent and Northern Europe and in around 500 years finally affects the Southern Hemisphere since the Gulf Stream is part of a world wide ocean system that is estimated to take 1,000 years for a complete cycle. Remember that around 1,000 AD or CE (they both use the same start point) Greenland 's coast included arable land well up is west coast. The Little Ice Age ended that, now that land is emerging again; the Little Ice Age ended in the the first decades of the 1800's (lets use around 1820). If a roughly 1000 yea r cycle is involved, we should be looking at being near the peak of the warming cycle. Just an aside geologists taking core samples inthe Great Plains found a decades long drought around every 500 year; this was verified by tree ring samples. That drought occurred near the point of the Little Ice Ages beginning. Instead of wasting time and money trying to prevent climate change, that effort needs to go into 0lznning to survive it.
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@craigmiller4528 How about you giving me one. Again actual evidence of wide spread cultures starting say 10,000 years ago. Europe, Middle East and Asia. Written languages, Middle East and Asia; somewhat later in MesoAmerica. I am not saying people didn't exist in other areas e as; but rather little has been found. In Brazil there is some wide spread evidence of large scale populations, but nothing written, carved or available. The Pacific Coast of South America remains of early civilisations; but no written or carved language, even the Inca had no actual written language, although through their knowledge cords they were able to transmit information. My point is that cultures that leave no hard evidence or writings behind are hard to study. We can look at what we can find, make guesses based on funeral offerings and graves, find camp or village sites; but the transmission of knowledge determines what we can say about a past people. New knowledge is added over time as New methods are developed to search for it; but until things are found that tell us something about the people who used the site, there is little to study. Neanderthal was originally thought not to have any artistic or cultural traits, now we know that they had funeral practices, did use decorations and even some art. Less than 50 years ago that won't have been believed. The oldest pottery found was in Japan whi.e the first glazed pottery came from the mountains of Asia 500 years later. Submersibles have found evidence of settlements at the bottom of the Blsck Sea at least as old as those found in Turkey. My point is that we learn over time and condemning Eurocentrism for lack of concern over other cultures is just as foolish as ignoring that as our tools improve, our ability recognize earlier civilizations improve. The question then becomes why did they disappear, and the answer is only zeuropeans.
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