The Old World is a reference to those parts of Earth known to Europeans before the voyages of Christopher Columbus; it includes Europe, Asia and Africa.
Melting alpine glaciers are revealing fascinating clues to Neolithic life in the high mountains.
And, as a conference of archaeologists and climatologists meeting in the Swiss capital Berne has been discussing, the finds are also providing key indicators to climate change.
Everyone knows the story of Oetzi the Ice Man, found in an Austrian glacier in 1991. Oetzi was discovered at an altitude of over 3,000m.
He lived in about 3,300 BC, leading to speculation that the Alps may have had more human habitation than previously suspected.
Now, more dramatic findings from the 2,756m Schnidejoch glacier in Switzerland have confirmed the theory.
Something is wrong here. War, disease, death, destruction, hunger, filth, poverty, torture, crime, corruption, and the Ice Capades. Something is definitely wrong. This is not good work. If this is the best God can do, I am not impressed.
Actually Ish and others perhaps we should look at warming from a different stance. The last 10K years appear to have been the most stable in millennia as regards climate in the northern hemisphere.
Change is normal, stability seems to be less so.
One of the things that puzzles me about his present day scenario that leads the less informed to believe that the current condition is 'normal', that 'man is the cause', that 'we are all doomed!' is, how the hell did it all get started?
To those of us here in the UK, have you heard that we must re-cycle even the air we breathe almost, 'cos we are running out of land fill sites?
The latest con I might add.
By the way, where's Beagle, anyone know?
