Climate Change Killed Off The Harappan Civilization

According to the experts.

Hey folks, 

I love this. One I enjoy reading about lost civilizations. Two I love science. Three, I love history. So this was right up my ally. However, I'll tell you what got my attention. It was not the actual article headline, which actually is,  Huge Ancient Civilization’s Collapse Explained. No, it was this headline, posted elsewhere that referred to this article. Climate Change killed off ancient civilization. 

However, when I started reading it, I was hooked. I love this story. In it, there is one sentence that should clear up the whole man-made global warming BS. One sentence in the whole thing, tells you the absolute TRUTH about climate change. More on that in a second. 

So turns out, they discovered a large ancient civilization called the  Harappan . They were quite impressive.

Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia may be the best known of the first great urban cultures, but the largest was the Indus or Harappan civilization. This culture once extended over more than 386,000 square miles (1 million square kilometers) across the plains of the Indus River from the Arabian Sea to the Ganges, and at its peak may have accounted for 10 percent of the world population. The civilization developed about 5,200 years ago, and slowly disintegrated between 3,900 and 3,000 years ago — populations largely abandoned cities, migrating toward the east.

"Antiquity knew about Egypt and Mesopotamia, but the Indus civilization, which was bigger than these two, was completely forgotten until the 1920s," said researcher Liviu Giosan, a geologist at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts. "There are still many things we don't know about them."

"They had cities ordered into grids, with exquisite plumbing, which was not encountered again until the Romans," Giosan told LiveScience. "They seem to have been a more democratic society than Mesopotamia and Egypt — no large structures were built for important personalitiess like kings or pharaohs."

Like their contemporaries in Egypt and Mesopotamia, the Harappans, who were named after one of their largest cities, lived next to rivers.

"Until now, speculations abounded about the links between this mysterious ancient culture and its life-giving mighty rivers," Giosan said. 

So picture this massive city. People living their lives. Art, trade, even pluming, and other modern amenities. They were like ancient New York or something. Just living their lives. Doing their thing. Then poof. Gone. 

Of course people that discover these civilizations want to know why. There appear to be many concepts. That they lived on the river for obvious reasons. The source of the river was, and still is, debatable. Was the source a glacier that was slowly melting? Was it heavy rains that feed it? What caused the rivers to flow. 

Well this group says it was heavy rains. They say Monsoons were the source. Reoccurring, pretty constant, monsoons. Then, their theory goes, the monsoons stopped coming as often, drying up the river. This of course forced the people that relied on the river to move. 

So this is their theory. Climate change killed them off. Or at least made them move. Of course, the chicken little, greeny, GWBS crowd are jumping all over this. See? See what happens if we do not stop global warming? Well, lets look at this. 

First, the theory of a reoccurring, regular, monsoon, is well, problematic. Nature is not regular. We have cycles. Warm, cold, wet, dry, etc. We have bad storm seasons, and no storms. Heavy snow, no snow. Rain, no rain. The truth is, we do NOT control the weather. 

But lets just go with they were in a wet season. That apparently  lasted for a couple of what, thousand years? Then they went into a dry season, that reduced the river flow. OK. So these folks had to move. Sounds like a stretch, the wet season lasting thousands of years, but lets say.  

So now we get to the one paragraph, the one sentence, that tells you the absolute truth. This one sentence tells you all you need to know about climate change. Here it is.. 

"The insolation — the solar energy received by the Earth from the sun — varies in cycles, which can impact monsoons," Giosan said. "In the last 10,000 years, the Northern Hemisphere had the highest insolation from 7,000 to 5,000 years ago, and since then insolation there decreased. All climate on Earth is driven by the sun, and so the monsoons were affected by the lower insolation, decreasing in force. This meant less rain got into continental regions affected by monsoons over time."

Did you catch the one sentence? Here it is.. "All climate on Earth is driven by the sun," WOW. Really? That big yellow ball in the sky effects our climate? Not according to the GWBS, chicken little crowd. According to them, WE do. So how much CO2 do you think the Harappans pumped into the atmosphere? Maybe they had too many farting cows? Horses? Maybe it was their diet. Was it their factories? 

This is a really interesting article. It really is. Check it out. But that one sentence is a crystal clear example of the truth coming out through REAL science and not scarence. Or Scare Science. That is a FACT. So even if we take everything that these researchers say as absolute fact. It was not man-made climate change that forced the Harappans to move. It was simple nature. Natural Cycles. Normal. Nothing we can do about it. 

We have talked about Global Warming, and Climate Change, for years. It's a total scam. It is a money grabbing, power grabbing, control giving, scam. We are not going to turn into a big fire ball. We are not going to have another Ice Age any time soon. Nothing is going to happen if you use cheap light bulbs. If the climate does change in a few thousand years, we will have to adapt to it. But we are not the cause of it. It's that little yellow ball in the sky. 

Peter

Sources: 

Live Science - Huge Ancient Civilization’s Collapse Explained by Charles Choi, LiveScience Contributor | LiveScience.com