Apparently, some parchments dating 150 years before the time of Christ have been discovered 6 km from the Dead Sea's northwestern shore by graduate students working on an unrelated sediment-mapping project. They were said to have been discovered in a collapsed cave that was almost overlooked and was probably exposed by a wind-storm. At this early juncture they have been informally named the "Kalya Scrolls" due to their proximity to that small Israeli settlement.
Preliminarily translated from the ancient Aramaic, one page reads:
"And it shall be the destiny of these men, not by means of their god, to cause great changes in the balance of the sky and the sweat upon their brows, and they shall do so without humility, for which they will receive the ultimate penance."
Another section goes on to read:
"The days to come thereafter will bring great suffering, with a relentless withering of crops and desiccation of herds, and it will be the duty of men to end the hardship, just as it was brought about."
This is a preliminary transcription and can't be fully authenticated at this time. But it fits all the criteria that modern global warming skeptics seek, based on other things they readily accept as absolute truth. To wit: It's very ancient, it's not peer-reviewed, the full names of its authors are unknown, and they are long dead.
Those traits of authenticity are no different than the ones applied to the Bible by modern conservatives, and the Bible has long had an unofficial role in critical science policy decisions.
Might the Kalya Scrolls be the ultimate proof that will finally get AGW skeptics to concur with what modern scientists have been trying to tell them all along?
Come on, people, these are actual handwritten scrolls, not socialist peer-reviewed scientific literature. Surely, the older and less authenticated a text is, the more it can be trusted with our very future at stake? Amen.
Preliminarily translated from the ancient Aramaic, one page reads:
"And it shall be the destiny of these men, not by means of their god, to cause great changes in the balance of the sky and the sweat upon their brows, and they shall do so without humility, for which they will receive the ultimate penance."
Another section goes on to read:
"The days to come thereafter will bring great suffering, with a relentless withering of crops and desiccation of herds, and it will be the duty of men to end the hardship, just as it was brought about."
This is a preliminary transcription and can't be fully authenticated at this time. But it fits all the criteria that modern global warming skeptics seek, based on other things they readily accept as absolute truth. To wit: It's very ancient, it's not peer-reviewed, the full names of its authors are unknown, and they are long dead.
Those traits of authenticity are no different than the ones applied to the Bible by modern conservatives, and the Bible has long had an unofficial role in critical science policy decisions.
Might the Kalya Scrolls be the ultimate proof that will finally get AGW skeptics to concur with what modern scientists have been trying to tell them all along?
Come on, people, these are actual handwritten scrolls, not socialist peer-reviewed scientific literature. Surely, the older and less authenticated a text is, the more it can be trusted with our very future at stake? Amen.