Note: this topic is from . Thanks blam. Just an update, and since it's been a while and is probably long forgotten, a re-ping.
Posted on 01/26/2005 12:28:52 PM PST by blam
Oh and it was Bush's ancenstor's fault.
LOL. A small'b' for Australian bushmen is okay, I guess.
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The Aborigines in Australia greatly increased the frequency of fires. They used it (some still do) to flush out game and encourage plants suitable for the animals they hunted. This encouraged the growth of fire-tolerant species like Eucalyptus. In many parts of north Queensland, where manmade fire has been reduced, the Eucalyptus forest (tolerant of fire) has been replaced by rainforest (intolerant of fire).
Can you say "agenda"?
Possibly. On the other hand, the interior of Australia is between 20 and 30 degress latitude so it's a good candidate for desertification.
Not only an ocean bottom (except for the Paisano and Davis Mountain volcanos which punched through later), but that ocean was filled in by debris washed from the Ouchita Mountains running from Dallas to the Big Bend (neither of which were there then.) The Guadalupe's are a reef. The bristlecone area in California is also a sea bottom, but at about 10,000 feet.
Actually, about twice as fast. However, both will be in the same ballpark for a long time.
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Thanks Doctor!
I should have known those facts myself, but didn't.
"In the middle of Australia there is a group of three or four meteorite craters called the Henley craters. They're like the Arizona meteorite crater -- not so big, but there are several of them -- and, like in Arizona, the land was scattered with pieces of iron meteorite. I think the [inaudible] dating very slow growing desert plants. They believe that the date is about 5000 years ago -- the formation of the craters. The Aboriginal name for this area is the "Place Where The Sun Walked on the Earth" -- they must have seen it!"
Pleistocene Extinction of Genyornis newtoniAbstract: More than 85 percent of Australian terrestrial genera with a body mass exceeding 44 kilograms became extinct in the Late Pleistocene. Although most were marsupials, the list includes the large, flightless mihirung Genyornis newtoni. More than 700 dates on Genyornis eggshells from three different climate regions document the continuous presence of Genyornis from more than 100,000 years ago until their sudden disappearance 50,000 years ago, about the same time that humans arrived in Australia. Simultaneous extinction of Genyornis at all sites during an interval of modest climate change implies that human impact, not climate, was responsible.
Gifford H. Miller, John W. Magee, Beverly J. Johnson, Marilyn L. Fogel, Nigel A. Spooner, Malcolm T. McCulloch, Linda K. Ayliffe
Note: this topic is from . Thanks blam. Just an update, and since it's been a while and is probably long forgotten, a re-ping.
this is a pseudo scientific theory of the human origin of anthropomorphic centered ‘continental warming”. In other words, humans have been responsible for ecological change by setting fossils fuels on fire.
A great propaganda piece for the true believers.
But think of the turtle soup, man!
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