Posted on 12/18/2008 8:57:54 AM PST by Red Badger
Didn’t some scientist pretty much prove, the “little ice age” in question was a direct result of a massive supervolcanic eruption of Krakatoa in Indonesia, which wiped out agriculture around the planet?...
Or was that another little ice age?
Is this winter a little ice age?...
Homosexual behavior among animals occurs under conditions of overcrowding. Apparently, stress on the female animals causes changes in the hormones of their newborn which subsequently have an influence on their offspring. Probably happens in humans too. Whatever happened to the idea of protecting pregnant women from stress?
Regarding the Little Ice Age, how do these data correlate with the missing sunspots of the Maunder Minimum? There may have been an additive effect.
Actually, the change coming after 1500, makes sense. The Spaniards introduced European diseases like measles and smallpox which may have eliminated as much as 4/5ths of the Aztec, Maya, and Inca populations, as well as others that they had contact with. It is estimated that in North America the indigenous population was at least 20 million before northern Europeans brought in their diseases.
Of course, they returned the favor by giving syphilis to the returning Spaniards. Also the potato. ;-)
are these ‘scientists’ suggesting that the way to stop global warming is to reduce population?
Couldn’t hurt, might even do some good. By non-violent, voluntary means, of course. Certainly would help gas and food prices.
I have heard the figure of 1 billion, if they are going to have American and European standard of living.
I get the feeling that the researchers started out with a conclusion already in mind, and looked for research to support it. Which is the worst kind of scientific research.
Was that much land under cultivation in the Americas? Nearly all Indian tribes were hunter-gatherers and had no cultivated land at all.
I hope the “Warmers” have a contingency plan to put carbon BACK into the atmosphere should we begin to rapidly cool.
Right now, they’re playing with disaster.
As one of my old taglines says: Al carbon in all that oil, coal and natural gas was once in the atmosphere. We're just putting it back.............
Eastern and Southern Indian tribes were cultivators, a slash and burn type of agriculture..........
If he did, he was a Krak-Pot, since the volcano's famous eruption happened in 1883......
Crickets!
Ever seen when they do their mating ritual in the Fall?
Smells like ass.
Deforrestation was naturally occuring due to forest fires caused by lightning strikes. But in order to keep the grant money coming in, ya gotta find a way to blame it on man..........Because without a man made problem, you can't finance a man made solution.......
I think maybe the scientist’s conclusion was that Krakatoa initiated what we consider the dark ages, it wasn’t so recent as the “little ice age” in the top article.
The supposition was something like this:
First off, he went to some length to determine the date of a massive eruption at Krakatoa - I think it was around 500 AD. The resulting mess of particulates in the atmosphere actually darkened the sky around the globe for several years - and dropped average temperatures.
Crops were seriously impacted, which brought economic hardship, leading to social chaos and eventual ruin.
It probably seems a bit like Coast to Coast AM fare, but the supposition was pretty well supported. Wish I remembered more details.
It was on one of those Discovery channel, or PBS specials where they walk through a series of scientific discoveries to an interesting scientific conclusion about history - not like the global warming nonsense, but real science.
Like another - a fjord in Alaska which was for a long time known to have somehow suffered periodic 100-yard high tsunamis for unknown reasons, which eventually was determined to have been caused by massive rock slides from a cliff at the foot of the fjord, which dropped tons of rock thousands of feet into the water of the fjord, generating a terrible wave.
It’s like the Bermuda Triangle hypothesis, that the cause is vast Methane deposits under the steep sedimentary seabed under that part of the Atlantic - which when released by undersea slides of that sedimentary mud, can remove bouyancy from the sea and actually sink huge ships - and change the oxygen mix of the air above enough to cause internal combustion airplane engines to cease operation. Thus explaining the mysterious disappearance of planes and ships in the area.
It just made abundant sense at the time. I bought the idea anyway.
> Regarding the Little Ice Age, how do these data correlate with the missing sunspots of the Maunder Minimum?
That was the original correlation I believe — Galileo and others discovered and kept counts of sunspots, and that was during the LIA. :’)
> Homosexual behavior among animals occurs under conditions of overcrowding.
Uh, okay. :’)
slash and burn type of agriculture...
Another thing the indians did in the east was burn areas to turn them into grasslands which were used by buffalo. The Shenandoah Valley was once a buffalo common, and after the settlers there drove them away they continued to use areas in Kentucky, especially north of the Green River and Mammoth Cave. It was called the barrens and was quite large.
Indians used to set forest fires frequently. Deer and other wildlife live at the interface between forest and meadow, so the ideal hunting environment is forest pockmarked by many fire-caused meadows.
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