I could not stop laughing when I saw the photo of the Greta cult archaeologist carrying the bundle of sticks.
Look up the definition of a 'bundle of sticks' in English. Then, look for the slang translation of the word. Sometimes the universe presents the most hilarious moments.
I've never understood, why the glaciers were environmentally sacrosanct.
They were held up as evidence of humanity's crimes against nature. Their slow melt, our Scarlett letter! 🤔Strange, particularly when one considers how mountains, rivers, oceans, islands, continents, etc are all made over millennia- constantly moving, ebb and flow. So why are the glaciers required to be static? Held up as a symbol of our trangressions🤔🤔😐🤦♀️
I think it's because it melts literally before it our eyes, hence it's a useful (discursive, or performative) bludgeon that cannot be questioned: once gone, it's your fault, and there's no way of 'falsifying' that hypothesis, hence it's not science.
But it's extremely useful for virtue-signalling because of *that* quality.
OK, I guess it fits in this case, as Wikipedia states: "The use of symbols, marks, and images appears very early among humans, but the earliest known writing systems appeared c. 5,000 years ago. It took thousands of years for writing systems to be widely adopted, with writing spreading to almost all cultures by the 19th century. The end of prehistory therefore came at very different times in different places, and the term is less often used in discussing societies where prehistory ended relatively recently."
The article is long, using internet-measures for such things, but a real good primer on cuneiform, the oldest known system of writing. Interestingly enough, cuneiform wasn't a language but a system, much in the same way our modern western letters are not tied to a specific language.
The problem is that you need common sense in order to understand the implications......unless, of course, you’re job requires you to ignore the implications of your work.....
What is perplexing is that in the 1950s up until the 1980s, it was regularly taught in schools here that during the Stone Age and especially the Bronze Age, it was warm enough that you could grow grapes in Mälardalen in Sweden - that's at 59 North, roughly, and is the lowlands surrounding Lake Mälaren.
Meaning the annual mean must have been too high for proper glaciers, so the archeologists can't have thought glaciers have been around for more than 1 000 to 1 500 years or so (which in turn is consistent with virtually all other archeological finds in Scandinavia).
I'd wager that said archeologists know full well that the media truth-version of climate theory is complete and utter bogus, but they also know equally well on what side their bread is buttered, so must "hålla god min i elakt spel" (keep a straight face despite knowing better, roughly translated).
I base this assumption on people I know in swedish academia: you must pay lip service to climate change, feminazism and the "whites evil - darkies good"-racism, or you're out out out.
"Eigentlich hatten die Forscherinnen und Forscher an Bord mit dem Schlimmsten gerechnet, was das Meereis angeht. "Wir waren unterwegs mit dramatischen Vorzeichen: Hitzewellen im Atlantik, beginnendes El Nino (Anm. d. Red.: Klimaschwankungen), der heißeste globale Sommer der Erde aller Zeiten", erzählt Boetius."
I could not stop laughing when I saw the photo of the Greta cult archaeologist carrying the bundle of sticks.
Look up the definition of a 'bundle of sticks' in English. Then, look for the slang translation of the word. Sometimes the universe presents the most hilarious moments.
Thanks so much for this--I fell off my chair.
Talk about life imitating art.
I am very glad I could contribute to this cultural exchange!
I've never understood, why the glaciers were environmentally sacrosanct.
They were held up as evidence of humanity's crimes against nature. Their slow melt, our Scarlett letter! 🤔Strange, particularly when one considers how mountains, rivers, oceans, islands, continents, etc are all made over millennia- constantly moving, ebb and flow. So why are the glaciers required to be static? Held up as a symbol of our trangressions🤔🤔😐🤦♀️
Because a glacier is a beautiful thing but the rubble it leaves behind when it retreats is ugly. It is natural to feel sad at the sight.
I think it's because it melts literally before it our eyes, hence it's a useful (discursive, or performative) bludgeon that cannot be questioned: once gone, it's your fault, and there's no way of 'falsifying' that hypothesis, hence it's not science.
But it's extremely useful for virtue-signalling because of *that* quality.
The "bronze age" is now "prehistory"? I've always taken that word to mean paleolithic age and older. Guess I'll have to google it...
OK, I guess it fits in this case, as Wikipedia states: "The use of symbols, marks, and images appears very early among humans, but the earliest known writing systems appeared c. 5,000 years ago. It took thousands of years for writing systems to be widely adopted, with writing spreading to almost all cultures by the 19th century. The end of prehistory therefore came at very different times in different places, and the term is less often used in discussing societies where prehistory ended relatively recently."
My personal impression was that 'prehistory' is whatever happened before writing.
Be that as it may, if these Bronze Age people were up there frequently, we might need to reassess 'history' and 'prehistory', too.
You might enjoy this article from Archeology (a publication of the Archaeological Institute of America) then?
https://www.archaeology.org/issues/213-features/4326-cuneiform-the-world-s-oldest-writing
The article is long, using internet-measures for such things, but a real good primer on cuneiform, the oldest known system of writing. Interestingly enough, cuneiform wasn't a language but a system, much in the same way our modern western letters are not tied to a specific language.
The problem is that you need common sense in order to understand the implications......unless, of course, you’re job requires you to ignore the implications of your work.....
Somehow, a well-known quote by a certain Upton Sinclair comes to mind…
It also occurred to me while I was typing the above comment :)
What is perplexing is that in the 1950s up until the 1980s, it was regularly taught in schools here that during the Stone Age and especially the Bronze Age, it was warm enough that you could grow grapes in Mälardalen in Sweden - that's at 59 North, roughly, and is the lowlands surrounding Lake Mälaren.
Meaning the annual mean must have been too high for proper glaciers, so the archeologists can't have thought glaciers have been around for more than 1 000 to 1 500 years or so (which in turn is consistent with virtually all other archeological finds in Scandinavia).
I'd wager that said archeologists know full well that the media truth-version of climate theory is complete and utter bogus, but they also know equally well on what side their bread is buttered, so must "hålla god min i elakt spel" (keep a straight face despite knowing better, roughly translated).
I base this assumption on people I know in swedish academia: you must pay lip service to climate change, feminazism and the "whites evil - darkies good"-racism, or you're out out out.
@fackel of interessant for you:
https://www.butenunbinnen.de/nachrichten/bremerhaven-awi-expedition-polarstern-boetius-100.html
"Eigentlich hatten die Forscherinnen und Forscher an Bord mit dem Schlimmsten gerechnet, was das Meereis angeht. "Wir waren unterwegs mit dramatischen Vorzeichen: Hitzewellen im Atlantik, beginnendes El Nino (Anm. d. Red.: Klimaschwankungen), der heißeste globale Sommer der Erde aller Zeiten", erzählt Boetius."