View of the Hunger Stone on the Elbe in Děčín. The stone marks the low water levels of the Elbe with different dates. By Jo Nova Using United Nations Science TM — who can deny that the megadrought of 1540 was a man-made creation? Freakish weather was the new norm. The 1530s was described as one of the driest decades of the last 500 years. Bushfires raged, cattle starved, rivers dried up, and people died of dysentery. The hunger stones appeared o…
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