Monday, December 23, 2013

Did Halley's comet cause a FAMINE 1,500 years ago? Dust from cosmic body cooled Earth's atmosphere and caused devastating crop failures | Mail Online

Did Halley's comet cause a FAMINE 1,500 years ago? Dust from cosmic body cooled Earth's atmosphere and caused devastating crop failures | Mail Online: "Comet threw up dust into atmosphere causing planet to cool in 536 AD
Temperature dropped by as much as 3°C leading to drought and famine
Scientists claim this made humanity more susceptible to Justinian's plague
The plague was the first recorded appearance of the Black Death in Europe"

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