Horse-drawn carriages must have caused a Megadrought in Europe in 1540, right?
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 on the bottom of the Elbe River (again). The Rhine dried up in parts so people could walk across.
In 1535 one drought caused a famine so bad that in Transylvania dead bodies “littered the roads” and men and women wandered the streets, mad with hunger, eating cats, dogs and supposedly even other people.
Religious leaders called it “end times” — other leaders searched for scapegoats. Those in charge started looking for secret symbols of organized arsonists they could blame for the fires. Water was so scare that some towns banned laundering of clothes. Apparently “everything stank”. And all this was in the midst of the Little Ice Age and with no coal plants in sight for another 300 years.
The 1540 event is famous with climate scientists, not that they mention it much, possibly because it was so awful and they can’t blame CO2. At least one expert in The Smithsonian suggests that people may have forgotten the worst drought in 500 years because the weather in the next fifty years got even more horrid as things got colder.
https://joannenova.com.au/2026/06/horse-drawn-carriages-must-have-caused-a-megadrought-in-europe-in-1540/
