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Originally Posted by niky
Colder climes with a set growing season means that you have a flurry of agricultural productivity for one season, and then a harsh winter in which people are stuck indoors doing nothing but drinking and inventing sewing machines and atom bombs.
Tropical places have longer growing seasons, but unpredictable weather means more famines, more disasters
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I've been learning about ringing Gauge Blocks. Northern societies had an advantage in that they could put steel stock in ice caves overwinter and do finer precision machine work.
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...may I refer you to my favorite crackpot, Velikovsky?
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Velikovsky did nothing wrong. ...at least according to Electric Universe theory.
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Originally Posted by NeilBlanchard
At the point that we add carbon to the air more quickly than it can be weathered out, it will lead to climate change.
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Someday we'll all look back and laugh.