Sinister 'hunger stones' with dire warnings have surfaced as water levels drop
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Re: Sinister 'hunger stones' with dire warnings have surfaced as water levels drop
#2Reminds me of the stones in Japan warning not to build homes below them.
https://www.amusingplanet.com/2015/03/ancient-tsunami-warnin...
Re: Sinister 'hunger stones' with dire warnings have surfaced as water levels drop
#3It's almost as if this has happened before...
But no, it's record breaking drought.
Re: Sinister 'hunger stones' with dire warnings have surfaced as water levels drop
#4It's almost as if this has happened before... But no, it's record breaking drought.
It … can be both?!
And given that the stones explicitly warn of catastrophe associated with the drought it doesn’t seem like a too common occurrence.
(Also, on an unrelated note, it’s important not to confuse drought (for which there’s precedence) with global warming and recent heat waves (for which there isn’t precedence). The two are probably connected but they’re not the same.)
Re: Sinister 'hunger stones' with dire warnings have surfaced as water levels drop
#5It's almost as if this has happened before... But no, it's record breaking drought.
Um, the fact that the last time it was this bad was 400 years ago is pretty much the definition of "record breaking".
Re: Sinister 'hunger stones' with dire warnings have surfaced as water levels drop
#6It's almost as if this has happened before... But no, it's record breaking drought.
Um, the fact that the last time it was this bad was 400 years ago is pretty much the definition of "record breaking".
uhhh... the fact that there was a time that was "this bad", means that at most it's record equaling.
Re: Sinister 'hunger stones' with dire warnings have surfaced as water levels drop
#7It's almost as if this has happened before... But no, it's record breaking drought.
It … can be both?! And given that the stones explicitly warn of catastrophe associated with the drought it doesn’t seem like a too common occurrence. (Also, on an unrelated note, it’s important not to confuse drought (for which there’s precedence) with global warming and recent heat waves (for which there isn’t precedence). The two are probably connected but they’re not the same.)
How can it have happened before and be record breaking?
Why the unrelated note? Why assume I am an idiot?
Re: Sinister 'hunger stones' with dire warnings have surfaced as water levels drop
#8It's almost as if this has happened before... But no, it's record breaking drought.
What you are saying is not greatly removed from “well if the world’s gettin’ so dang warm, why’s it so cold right now?”
Climate science is much more complex than isolated data points such as a local temperature or river level, and to counter multivariate studies with anecdotal reductionism is the tool of demagogues.
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#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
It … can be both?! And given that the stones explicitly warn of catastrophe associated with the drought it doesn’t seem like a too common occurrence. (Also, on an unrelated note, it’s important not to confuse drought (for which there’s precedence) with global warming and recent heat waves (for which there isn’t precedence). The two are probably connected but they’re not the same.)
How can it have happened before and be record breaking? Why the unrelated note? Why assume I am an idiot?
“Record” refers to past data. “Record breaking” means you’ve exceeded the past data, not that you’ve exceeded anything that has ever happened.
For example, regular and reliable temperature records only go back to the late 1800s, so any “record breaking” temperature just means it hasn’t happened since 1888 or whatever.
Re: Sinister 'hunger stones' with dire warnings have surfaced as water levels drop
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
It … can be both?! And given that the stones explicitly warn of catastrophe associated with the drought it doesn’t seem like a too common occurrence. (Also, on an unrelated note, it’s important not to confuse drought (for which there’s precedence) with global warming and recent heat waves (for which there isn’t precedence). The two are probably connected but they’re not the same.)
How can it have happened before and be record breaking? Why the unrelated note? Why assume I am an idiot?
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