Chapter 213: New Dryas Incident! Ice and Snow Hell is Coming!
A new sky soon appeared.

【New Dryas incident! 】

[A terrible extreme cold event that occurred 10,000 years ago. 】

[This global extreme cold event has profoundly changed the global environment and the way people live.]

[This event is the Younger Dryas extreme cold event. ]

Outside the sky.

When ancient people saw the title of the new sky curtain, they all felt a little panic and fear.

On the one hand, ancient people already knew about the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum by looking at the sky.

Knowing the power of that one incident, it is so terrifying.

And now another name has emerged.

The Younger Dryas extreme cold event looks like the exact opposite.

Although it is not clear what the event's capabilities are and how powerful it is.

But the ancients were not stupid.

You can basically guess it.

The extreme cold events that were specifically mentioned on the sky screen must be extremely terrifying.

Especially compared to extreme heat events.

Ancient people had a deeper understanding of temperature drops and extremely cold years.

And more fearful.

For the ancient people living in northern China, especially along the Great Wall.

They knew that every time the winter was extremely cold, a terrible white disaster would blow across the grassland.

The grassland peoples who could not survive would go south to plunder on a large scale.

This led to war.

And a series of chain reactions.

Even a dynasty at its peak had to face nomadic tribes that could not survive and came south to plunder and raid valleys.

If we are not careful in our response, there will often be a large-scale loss of national strength.

Even to the point of being unable to recover.

Not to mention those weaker dynasties!
Even if it was a powerful dynasty, such as the Tang Dynasty.

The rise of the Khitan people was closely related to the Tang Dynasty's policy towards them.

When Li Longji saw this, he couldn't help but think of the past.

During the reign of Wu Zetian, the Khitan people suffered from a natural disaster, so they went south to ask the Tang Dynasty for disaster relief.

At that time, the Khitan had been tamed by the Tang Dynasty and had become relatively obedient.

As a nomadic people, after suffering a natural disaster, they did not think of going south to forage for grass and valleys at the first time.

Instead, they asked local officials for disaster relief.

It’s a pity that the border officials during Wu Zetian’s era did not handle this incident properly.

They could not survive and with no relief from the imperial court, they had no choice but to rebel.

It is known in history as the Yingzhou Rebellion.

The imperial army was sent to quell the rebellion, but it suffered repeated defeats and incurred heavy losses.

In the end, half of the northern part of the Tang Dynasty was in turmoil and the Khitan was finally suppressed.

Although the Khitans now seem very obedient.

But Li Longji also knew that estrangement had inevitably emerged from that time on.

Even the turning point of the Tang Dynasty's foreign military strategy was the Yingzhou Rebellion.

……

tomorrow.

At this time, Chongzhen already knew that the Ming Dynasty he was living in even started from the Yuan Dynasty.

This is already a cold period in history.

Chongzhen also read history books specifically and made comparisons.

I feel that the Ming Dynasty is currently in a cold era.

It is even colder than during the Northern and Southern Dynasties!

It also further weakens the country's strength.

"Alas, if the Ming Dynasty really goes to the point of no return or even destruction in my hands."

"It's definitely not my fault!"

"It's a natural disaster, it's the cold weather, it's God's will!"

"Let me see how cold the New Dryas event described on the sky is!"

Canopy.

[More than 13,000 years ago, there was a primitive tribe called Clovis people. ]

[Starting from Siberia, arriving in Alaska in North America via the Bering Strait,]

[They became the earliest primitive humans in America.]

[It was the end of a cold ice age.]

[The severe cold and ice caused the sea level to drop, which allowed the Clovis people to take simple wooden boats and cross the Bering Strait to North America.]

[In this land without competitors, the Clovis people developed rapidly.]

[But hundreds of years later, they mysteriously disappeared from history. ]

[It wasn’t just the Clovis people who disappeared.]

[Many large animals in North America at that time, such as the mammoths and saber-toothed tigers that we are very familiar with, also disappeared. ]

So, what caused the extinction of the Clovis people?

[This brings us to the Younger Dryas event. ]

[When the Clovis people arrived in North America, it was at the end of the Ice Age.]

【But when they arrived in North America, they felt the warmth of this land. 】

[The entire climate is warming up at a speed visible to the naked eye. ]

[The aquatic plants in North America, which used to have a harsh climate, are becoming more and more abundant, and various large prey are emerging one after another. ]

[The Clovis people lived happily in their ideal land, thanking God for the gift.]

【Until one day twelve thousand years ago. 】

[The last giant glacier in the Great Lakes region of North America is also collapsing and melting in the mild climate.]

[The Clovis people have seen many such scenes of glacier collapse and melting since they migrated to North America.]

[They knew this would mean further warming.]

[This means that the aquatic plants will be more abundant next year. ]

[The tribe will be able to feed more people. ] [Grow even stronger! ]

[All tribes agree that the fall of the glacier is a great thing.]

[Special celebrations are also held to thank the gods. ]

[While they were thanking the gods, they also discovered a small white flower that they had never seen before.]

[These yellow-white flowers are called fairy trees, which are rarely seen before. They only grow in cold and high mountainous areas.]

【Now it appears in the Great Lakes region. 】

[The Clovis people naturally did not understand what this meant and thought that a warmer period was coming.]

【However, what arrived next was not a warm and comfortable climate. 】

【It’s a terrifying story...】

[Extremely cold hell! ]

[Those little flowers, called fairy trees, appear in large numbers in geological studies of this period.]

【So this event is also called the Younger Dryas event. 】

[So, why did the extreme cold event happen? ]

【First, what caused the warm climate that made the Clovis people live in North America so comfortable? 】

【Mainly comes from the North Atlantic Current. 】

[The warm waters of the North Atlantic, floating on top of the cold waters, brought a huge amount of heat and water vapor to North America.]

【The warm climate and abundant rainfall have led to the flourishing growth of ecosystems throughout North America.】

[It will also naturally make the Clovis tribe live comfortably. ]

[This North Atlantic warm current starts from the equator, nourishes both sides of the North Atlantic with warmth, and eventually flows into the Arctic Ocean.]

That’s all about the sky curtain.

Many ancient people could not understand it.

Isn't it about extreme cold events?

Why is it a warm and humid era?

Although extremely cold and warm climates can change into each other.

But this process will probably be long.

What is the relationship between the North Atlantic Current that Tianmu is talking about now and the upcoming extreme cold era?

It's not just the ancients who were unclear.

Even modern audiences, including many netizens who are not very knowledgeable about geography, are confused.

Isn’t this very warm?
How did it become extremely cold?

Everyone looked at the sky with curiosity.

【Thermohaline circulation represented by the North Atlantic Current. 】

【Bring cold seawater to warm areas, and warm seawater to cold areas. 】

【So that hot places are not too hot, and cold places are not too cold. 】

[However, as the climate becomes warmer, the glaciers in North America are gradually melting. ]

More and more fresh water is pouring into the ocean.

[This has caused the salinity of seawater in coastal areas of North America to continue to decline.]

[The decrease in seawater salinity will reduce the density of seawater, and it will no longer be able to carry the warm water of the North Atlantic Current northward as before.]

[The energy of the North Atlantic Current is becoming weaker and weaker.]

[Until that day more than 12,000 years ago, all the glaciers in North America collapsed, causing it to reach a critical point.]

[Those glaciers that have existed for thousands of years have gathered countless amounts of fresh water.]

[But now, with the collapse and melting of the glaciers that have existed for thousands of years, trillions of tons of fresh water are pouring down the St. Lawrence River into the Atlantic Ocean.]

【The salinity of seawater is further diluted.】

[At this time, the North Atlantic Current can no longer be supported. ]

[Without the warmth and moisture brought by the North Atlantic Current. ]

[The climate in the entire North America suddenly became bad! ]

【In the second year, the elders of the Clovis tribe made a horrified discovery. 】

[It’s cold! It’s too cold!]

[No matter how much I pray to the gods, all they respond to is severe cold.]

[The tribal elders realized that something was wrong and could only watch in despair as this horrible spring arrived.]

[The terrifying extreme cold hell covers the entire North American continent. ]

[It is midsummer, but the sky is still covered with heavy snow. ]

【A large number of plants were frozen to death.】

[Then small animals that feed on plants, as well as various large animals, also disappeared.]

[The extreme cold event occurred within a few months, and not many creatures on the entire continent could adapt. ]

【According to evidence, the average temperature in the entire Great Lakes region dropped by 20 degrees within three years! 】

[Not to mention large animals as prey. ]

[Even in previous years, the fern root plants that could produce a stable harvest regardless of drought or flood in good years or bad years were now sealed under the thick snow and solid frozen soil due to the ice and snow.]

【Under extreme weather changes. 】

【Food, no more.】

[Everything happened too fast. The hungry people turned into cold corpses in the cold wind while going out to find food.]

[The Clovis people, a primitive tribe that migrated to North America more than 10,000 years ago, disappeared in the long river of history.]

[In fact, at that time, not only North America, but also the whole world experienced a round of super cooling! ]

[The ice sheets of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, the Alps, and the North and South Poles are expanding rapidly at a speed visible to the naked eye.]

[These ices sealed many creatures at that time, and also sealed countless ancient viruses. ]

[And the massive expansion of these glaciers will cause the surface to reflect more sunlight. ]

[Make the ground temperature lower]

[Many organisms that migrated from low latitudes to high latitudes due to the warm climate in the previous period are simply unable to adapt to such a drastic drop in temperature! ]

[In a very short time, they disappeared just like the Clovis people.]

[Including many human tribes at that time, many living in high latitudes were completely extinct. ]

[Only a small number of tribes migrated quickly and fled to warmer low-latitude areas. ]

【We were able to survive this extreme cold event. 】

[But the extreme cold events are still continuing. ]

　I'm back from visiting relatives and I really want to take a leave, but I can't!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)