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Alex Jones knows his archaeology! [I know it's Twitter, but it must count!] (lemmy.world)

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Hey I live there, so a few things: 1. The picture is wrong, that's nowhere in Malta. 2. The actual salt pans ARE Roman. 3. Salt pans are designed to dip underwater at high tide, so they've been coming in and out of the sea since they were built lol. Climate change has altered the exact times when they are above sea level though, and very drastic climate change will mean that they will eventually remain underwater indefinitely.

Edit from @Skua's comment below, fact checking this fact check:

Not sure about that comment, since those pools really are at Sliema in Malta https://www.google.com/maps/place/Roman+baths/@35.9165797,14.5036778,73m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m14!1m7!3m6!1s0x130e453d17183bff:0x2f6d720c7897d7de!2sFond+Għadir+Beach!8m2!3d35.9155994!4d14.5047453!16s%2Fg%2F11c0r4z3k8!3m5!1s0x130e453d997aaaab:0x2aaf0dc1de0d774e!8m2!3d35.9165157!4d14.5038595!16s%2Fg%2F11sskr6_j9?entry=ttu

But according to the local council’s facebook page when it shared this photo (they didn’t take the photo), they were built during the British period https://www.facebook.com/story.php/?story_fbid=878845397617697&id=100064767334211&paipv=0&eav=AfYRGKX34jrDJ5AuxuFU5SHiG8WiLpg42yMEYXZDkFKFtbbZPeS2GXwntwik1u1PZkc&_rdr

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[-] [email protected] 46 points 3 days ago

Not sure about that comment, since those pools really are at Sliema in Malta https://www.google.com/maps/place/Roman+baths/@35.9165797,14.5036778,73m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m14!1m7!3m6!1s0x130e453d17183bff:0x2f6d720c7897d7de!2sFond+G%C4%A7adir+Beach!8m2!3d35.9155994!4d14.5047453!16s%2Fg%2F11c0r4z3k8!3m5!1s0x130e453d997aaaab:0x2aaf0dc1de0d774e!8m2!3d35.9165157!4d14.5038595!16s%2Fg%2F11sskr6_j9?entry=ttu

But according to the local council's facebook page when it shared this photo (they didn't take the photo), they were built during the British period https://www.facebook.com/story.php/?story_fbid=878845397617697&id=100064767334211&paipv=0&eav=AfYRGKX34jrDJ5AuxuFU5SHiG8WiLpg42yMEYXZDkFKFtbbZPeS2GXwntwik1u1PZkc&_rdr

[-] [email protected] 22 points 3 days ago

To add context: The British period for Malta is 1814 - 1964. Most sources agree these things were made about 100 - 150 years ago, but the exact date is unsure.

This is a graph of the sea rise in the past 140 years: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_level_rise#/media/File:1880-_Global_average_sea_level_rise_(SLR)_-_annually.svg

Local sea rise due to global warming is around 30cm, local tides are also around 30cm.

[-] [email protected] 18 points 3 days ago

Another issue is that chucklefucks like Jones think that sea level rise is the most pressing problem when it comes to climate change and not things we're seeing now like much more frequent intense storms, massive wildfires and a spike in heat exhaustion deaths.

You have to be a special kind of dipshit to live in Texas all your life and not notice the hurricanes are getting worse. And Alex Jones is a special kind of dipshit.

[-] [email protected] 19 points 3 days ago

This is why I come here. Fact checking without hysterics. @Skua, thank you for your diligence in providing facts that support jones being everso wrong, again, (still?) without punching down on @Flying Squid.

My take-away: jones is a dipshit of the highest order. And owes US$1,500,000,000.00 that inexorable fact will keep him in penury for life. FAFO meatbag.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 3 days ago

I appreciate that, thank you. Fact checking a fact check is always helpful but I didn't really know how to check it.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago

No worries! For all of the manifold problems of google, its reverse image search tool is really useful. That helped me find the original image

[-] [email protected] 32 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

They do know man made climate change has only been happening for a hundred years, right?

If we terraform Earth into ~~Mars~~ Venus in only two hundred years, that's pretty damn fast.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

More like Venus than Mars

[-] [email protected] 13 points 3 days ago

12 consecutive months of record breaking heat.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago

Twitter is absolutely fine to post here, any social media as long as it's someone crazy is fine.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

Thanks!

[-] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago

THEY BURN TO THE FUCKING GROUND EDDIE.

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