The real problem that threatens humanity is not global warming, but global cooling, a group of Russian scientists is convinced
Researchers at the Main (Pulkovo) Astronomical Observatory, headed by Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences Khabibullo Abdusamatov, insist that global warming is over. The temperature on Earth has reached its maximum values, and then its slow decline will begin in accordance with the expected decline in solar radiation activity. The most noticeable process, according to scientists, will be already in 2012-2013. In another 20-30 years, the light emission of our "red dwarf" will become minimal, which will entail another climatic minimum. A deep cold snap will set in, which will last until about the 70s of this century.
What is hidden behind the term "deep cooling" in relation to the Celsius scale, the academician did not specify, but emphasized that such fluctuations are ordinary cyclical events that were observed earlier, and more than once.
“A global decrease in temperature was observed throughout Europe, North America and Greenland during the solar minimum in the 17th century. In Holland, then all the canals froze, and in Greenland, due to the onset of glaciers, people left part of the settlements, says Khabibullo Abdusamatov. - Something similar is happening in our time. Look at the abnormally cold winters and extremely cold temperatures that neither Europeans nor Africans are used to."
In the history of the planet, there have been periods of severe cold snaps, and not during the ice age, but much later. People of early civilizations turned out to be more resilient than mammoths and survived even in the winters of 401 and 801 AD, when, according to the chronicles, "the waters of the Black Sea became hard." During the first millennium, the Adriatic froze at least twice. In the XI century, the cold covered the northern coast of Africa, and the Nile was bound by a crust of ice. Two hundred years later, goods were delivered to Venice by sledge carts across the ice of the Adriatic Sea.
In the XI century, the cold covered the northern coast of Africa, and the Nile was bound by a crust of ice
The most common cold attacks occurred on Earth in the 14th and 15th centuries. The Danes rode on the ice of the Baltic in a sleigh, and the ice drift on the Seine blew down Parisian bridges. In 1420, Paris was almost depopulated, people who were frozen on the streets and in their homes fell prey to wild animals that roamed freely around the capital of France.
The invention of the thermometer made it possible to specify the magnitude of temperature jumps. Twice during the 18th century, a temperature of -24 was observed in France, and once the cavalry of one of the Louis attacked a Dutch squadron, whose ships fell into an ice trap off the French coast. In the 20th century, the period of "violent cold weather" is considered the winter of 1968-69.
If you dig even deeper, an interesting theory arises. Some RAS scientists are convinced that the dinosaurs, suddenly extinct 65 million years ago, also fell victim to a global cooling. According to experts, the frost came unexpectedly - in a matter of days, or maybe even hours, the planet was overgrown with a crust of ice.
In the process of studying the role of natural selection in the evolution of organisms, Charles Darwin and his followers initially assumed that the first people appeared on Earth about 50 thousand years ago. Gradually, the age of Homo sapiens increased to 250 thousand years, and the finds made in Africa in 1959 (the discovery of the remains of the zinjanthropus by Louis Leakey) indirectly prove that the process of the transformation of a monkey into a man began 1.7 million years ago.
Later, during archaeological excavations, fossilized remains of humanoid creatures were found, on which the traces of giant teeth are clearly visible, suggest that people and dinosaurs at some period of time still lived together and waged a fierce struggle for survival. They also indirectly prove that evolution in different parts of the planet took place, apparently, unevenly, knocking not to life, but to death of Homo sapiens and Neanderthals.
If we can prove that during the time of the dinosaurs, civilization reached a high level of development, then this will turn our whole idea of the world order upside down. Who knows, maybe we are on the verge of a historical sensation?
Based on the analysis of the obtained facts, we can conclude that people have always been in the environment of their own kind of creatures.
Where a reasonable person suddenly appeared from is a separate question. Perhaps we are really the descendants of the aliens who gave rise to ancient civilizations - the legends about them have been preserved in ancient traditions. Nowadays, few people are ready to argue with the fact that our distant ancestors often possessed unique knowledge and skills that even today are beyond human capabilities. What killed these civilizations is also unknown. We can only assume that some cataclysm (most likely a global cooling) destroyed all large mammals and dinosaurs, but spared part of humanity.
It is not surprising that the surviving people, due to the shocks that fell to their lot, "ran wild" and changed their appearance beyond recognition. Perhaps it is this period that is considered by scientists as the starting point for the evolution of the great apes, to which, from the point of view of modern science. refers to the person.
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