12 February

It's how nonsense spreads. Somebody writes a post about some long-forgotten information, and how the past was even worse today, so why do we worry? That era IS studied carefully, and even further back and in much more detail and with much more intelligence than this sort of rubbish. Like: http://www.theage.com.au/national/education/voice/scientists-unearth-australias-early-historical-records-of-droughts-and-flooding-rains-20141009-3hl3l.html