Harvey Weiss (was Re: Foster responds)

[Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1@xxxxxxx>]

> Lessons From Mesopotamia, Egypt, and the Maya: Abrupt Climate Change Can
> Cause Societal Collapse.
> (1/26/2001)
> American scientists warned on Friday of "unprecedented social disruptions"
> that could result from global warming, after linking the collapse of
> societies throughout history to climate change. There is "mounting evidence"
> that the demise of some civilisations was climate-driven, report Prof.
> Harvey Weiss of Yale University and Prof. Raymond Bradley of the University
> of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Harvey Weiss's work is more subtle & complex than the article posted
here lets on.  See Harvey Weiss, "Beyond the Younger Dryas: Collapse
as Adaptation to Abrupt Climate Change in Ancient West Asia and the
Eastern Mediterranean," at <http://www.yale.edu/nelc/weiss/byd.html>.

Yoshie