Re: Plague of Justinian 541CE

On Jan 31, 7:34 am, Eric Stevens <eric.stev...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Wed, 30 Jan 2008 01:27:56 -0800 (PST),bernardz<berna...@xxxxxxxx>
wrote:

OK, but what caused the climate change? ... and the dust veil? ... and
the sudden additional burden of C14 - among other things.

It would have to be a big comet to change the worlds climate
significantly. Look at the arguments for global warming today.

It doesn't have to be that big as comets go. Besides, we only need to
pass through its dust tail.

Eric Stevens

Tails of a comet have little material, the Earth has gone though tails
of comets many times eg during the passage of Halley's Comet in 1910,
the Earth passed through the comet's tail.
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