The idea of the unexplained causing mass hysteria is absolutely nothing new in world history. The only difference today is the speed at which information can travel, but that doesn't mean that it's better quality information. We can learn a ton from our past mistakes, what is going on today with global warming zealots reminds me of what was happening in 1697.
Moll Dyer was an old woman who was blamed for the brutal winter of 1697. What was really going on at that time was that the Sun had entered a grand solar minimum and the world all over was experiencing very cold weather this wasn't just a North American phenomenon.
Whenever something can't easily be explained back in those days it had to be a supernatural force that was the cause. The hysteria over global warming is the same people don't understand what really is happening they just blame CO2 because they have been told its CO2, much like the colonists believed it to be witchcraft at play because in Europe at this time this was the popular belief.
The town in question here where the story takes place is in the colonial town of Leonardtown, Maryland. It is located right on the coast which made the town perfect for growing tobacco and shipping it to England. Moll Dyer was an eccentric old woman who lived alone on the outskirts of town in the woods. When the winter of 1697 struck colonists began to assume witchcraft because she was not struggling with the cold like they were. Moll Dyer had learned natural healing remedies from being in the woods this was the first piece of evidence towards witchcraft. When I fast forward to today everyone screaming global warming is like the people who are screaming witchcraft they lack knowledge of the natural world. They don't know that nature follows cyclical patterns including the weather. The weather channel did a great piece on the folklore of Moll Dyer I just wanted to give my spin on it and to remind everyone we don't want to fall into the same trap Europe and the colonists fell into this was not the only case.
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I don't know anything about Molly Dew but I do know that man-made global warming (as it has been popularized) is a hoax. Upvoted!
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Interesting article. There's no doubt that climate is cyclical throughout the solar system and the whole 'global warming' debate has reached hysterical proportions, with 'experts' on both sides presenting compelling evidence both for and against. One thing's for sure though, as a species, we are soiling our nest with waste and pollution and the long term results don't bode well for the future. If not global warming the other impacts are equally alarming. Either way, we do need to clean our act up, before our air is toxic, our crops don't naturally reproduce, our bees die out and delicate ecosystems are destroyed to the point the earth can no longer support us. The current witch hunt seems to be plastic but I'm sure it'll be something else soon.
Bees aren't dying from pollution....insects like bees see light in different wavelengths than humans. The light wavelengths visible now are different than what they once were its another problem with the grand solar minimum thats also the reason for migratory patterns of certain animals changing.
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