Originally Posted by
Peter Szarycz
This whole issue is trumped up. It permeated into every media outlet and is asking for a lashback. For example, yesterday I caught this show on the Discovery Channel or National Geographic called "Pompeii of the East" elaborating on the Tambora eruption of 1815. The narration asserted that the resulting global cooling was so drastic and unbearable, that it caused intense bread shortages and bread riots in England and France. On the other hand from what I can recall, in 1816 the agrarian lobby in England managed to get the Parliament to pass the Corn Tarriff that kept foreign grain out and led to high corn prices in England and sometimes even shortages as its corn farming was quite inefficient. It was actually a big issue back then that spurred unrest and riots.
I notice such inconsistencies on the Discovery Channel all the time, when ever I still watch it which is not often. A few months ago they aired another show which discussed the First Intermediate Period in Egypt at the end of the Old Kingdom. It warned of an upcoming, impending climate crisis similar to the severe droughts experienced back then by Egypt, India, and all over the world. The inconsistency is such, that the severe droughts at that time were a localized Egyptian phenomenon. India precisely at the same time experienced severe floods that washed away its early cities built in valleys with fluctuating river channels. Henceforth, the Harappa civilization was agrarian, village based, featuring a striking absence of cities. I don't know how the Discovery Channel experts could have missed this? As long as they throw in the rhethoric, the accuracy and facts don't matter.
I am sorry but since when did writers for TV shows become noted scientists?
For future reference - scientists are the ones in reading glasses and lab coats
TV writers are the ones with empty wine glasses and Labrador puppies
The internet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhoea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind- boggling amounts of excrement when you least expect it.
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