Sure the climate warmed up, but what really screwed the Romans was that their major ports silted up due in part to their agricultural practices. You would hope that college graduates would know who Fernand Braudel is, but that sort of education could interfere with a career in publishing stupidities.

Calling it a ‘Caesar Salad’ won’t change the fact it’s a smoke-stack or tail-pipe pumping shit into the atmosphere.

Huh. I thought what really what screwed the Romans was allowing their electoral process to be corrupted by money and by politicians using wars as leverage over domestic affairs, both of which led to a republic in name only where the idiot son of a former ruler could hold power because no one was willing to publicly admit what he was or to take any constitutionally-mandated steps to remove him.

Good thing none of that applies to our current situation.

Why are we busying ourselves with trivialities like murder trials or even having police to protect life and property? Even if they aren’t murdered, everyone is going to die one way or another and, shit, it’s not like they can take it with them.

I totally get it now!

Huh. I thought what really what screwed the Romans was allowing their electoral process to be corrupted by money and by politicians using wars as leverage over domestic affairs, both of which led to a republic in name only where the idiot son of a former ruler could hold power because no one was willing to publicly admit what he was or to take any constitutionally-mandated steps to remove him.

Nah, what really screwed the Romans was their brilliant decision to build their plumbing out of lead, thus rendering all of Rome stupid.

In other news, the Bush-era EPA supported allowing more heavy metals in the environment.

what really screwed the Romans was their brilliant decision to build their plumbing out of lead, thus rendering all of Rome stupid.

Sadly, not really: http://penelope.uchicago.edu/~grout/encyclopaedia_romana/wine/leadpoisoning.html

I love how righty-tighties like to pull out the “That’s What Destroyed Rome” card whenever they want to condemn illegal immigration, or ghey seks or a general decline of morals, or whatever their pet outrage of the week happens to be, but whenever anyone else (for instance an actual, y’know, historian) draws parallels between Rome’s imperial overreach, economic exploitation of lower classes by an aristocratic elite, stupidly wasteful military adventures, bloated military outlay and general snobbish hubris and us, well, they’re just making meaningless historical analogies that have nothing to do with the modern world.

In other news, the Bush-era EPA supported allowing more heavy metals in the environment

So THAT’S how Mettalica made it’s ill-fated comback!

How can people make fire when it also occurs naturally? What about artificial snow machines, what’s up with that?

Dumb liberals don’t understand that the atmosphere is just too big for humans to affect.

Too big. For six billion humans. Six billion humans who pump more greenhouse gases into the atmosphere than all the world’s volcanoes combined.

I read through the comments and I think I finally get it: wingnuts deny global warming because they think it’s a leftist conspiracy to get government control of…something. Their car size or house temperature or something else precious to them. Something obviously more precious to them than, say, their right to have a phone conversation without the NSA listening in or their right to petition for a court hearing if they are arrested or their right to not be tortured. Now that I understand this, I can say once and for all, they are willfully stupid.

Glad I got that straightened out.

Why don’t they go along with climate-change, but with a wingnutty twist?

“George Soros is melting teh polar icecaps via his secret lazer-satellites!”

Now THAT’s infotainment we can believe in, my friends!

Too big. For six billion humans. Six billion humans who pump more greenhouse gases into the atmosphere than all the world’s volcanoes combined.

For damn near 150 years!

Aren’t these essentially the same people who denied cigarettes were bad for you for 50 years or more? Did Rush Limbaugh ever recant his “there’s no conclusive proof cigarettes cause emphysema, lung cancer, heart disease” stance?”

Did Rush Limbaugh ever recant his “there’s no conclusive proof cigarettes cause emphysema, lung cancer, heart disease” stance?”

No, and he also still insists that Oxycontin and Dominican boys contain high levels of vitamin C.

he also still insists that Oxycontin and Dominican boys contain high levels of vitamin C.

This is a totally scurrilous & inaccurate slander of Rush Limbaugh’s personal lifestyle choices!

I hear he’s since moved on to Vicodin, absinthe & consorting with livestock.
Much richer in D & D12, after all.

Aren’t these essentially the same people who denied cigarettes were bad for you for 50 years or more? Did Rush Limbaugh ever recant his “there’s no conclusive proof cigarettes cause emphysema, lung cancer, heart disease” stance?”

A little punk like you won’t even remember how banning CFCs in underarm deodorant sprays destroyed the world economy.

It gets dark every night, so what possible harm could come from destroying the sun?