Posted on 03/13/2015 9:58:50 AM PDT by posterchild
While 1492 may have been the year Columbus sailed the ocean blue, it also marks the start of a mass swapping of species between the Old World and the New World as Europe began colonizing the Americas.
Research published Wednesday from University College of London (UCL) and Leeds University Professor Simon Lewis and UCL Professor Mark Maslin argues that just over 100 years later -- 1610 -- is when those actions dramatically changed the planet Earth.
As a result, they say, 1610 deserves to be designated as the start of the Anthropocene Epoch.
(Excerpt) Read more at cnet.com ...
Cue retroactive blame game for manmade global warming.
It’s funny, but I always thought that “science” was supposed to blind, but more of the “science” coming out of our institutes of higher learning as of late has been supportive of the idea that man is the reason why Earth “has a fever.”
And yet 500 years on, catastrophe has continued to fail to happen.
Maybe ecologists should be happy about the dissemination of species. After all, doesn’t that increase their chances of survival? So if Ireland has Potatoes and America has soy beans, maybe that is not so bad?
1610 — BOOM! — 50 million American Indians died of smallpox (”exterminated”).
That’s their claim? And this massive decline in New World agriculture left evidence in Antarctica?
Riiiiiiiight.
So trees suck CO2 from the atmosphere, but crops don't? Then we can "solve" global warming by planting more trees?
I have also read that there were no earth worms in the America’s, but they got here with the bricks loaded in the ships for ballast. This changed the character of the forest floors for ever.
Ping.
There is still thaat nagging little problem that CO2 rises follow warming trends in the geological record rather than the other way preferred by greenies.
And no rats.And no Democ Rats either.
ERROR! ERROR! EXAMINE!!
So many errors and falsifications to know where to begin.
The “the most prominent greenhouse gas” is not carbon dioxide it is water vapor.
The unsubstantiated assumption of how many farmers died is the basis for how much farmland was reforested which is used to estimate how much carbon was sequestered by reforestation.
This whole article is a house of cards supported by unfounded assumptions.
***I have also read that there were no earth worms in the America’s...***
I’ve read the same thing, but I wonder if it is true.
Fremont’s men almost starved till they came upon a quickly abandoned camp of Piute Indians who had been preparing food for the coming winter.
The starving soldiers found and ate the Indian’s stored food.
Then they found the food processing place and discovered the food was dried, pulverized worms. The starving soldiers lost their lunches over it.
No rats, but there were mice. At Mesa Verde, some ancient Indian poop was found with the perfectly preserved skeleton of a mouse in it. The Indian had swallowed his lunch whole.
Wonder if it tickled when it went down.
500 years of stupid people breeding...
...and most of them fall left. I don't think we have long to wait...
Thanks blam. It's another meme-building exercise by the global warming hoax lobbyists.
same ****, happy Friday the 13th:
News results for anthropocene:
http://news.google.com/news/section?q=anthropocene&hl=en&pz=1&cf=all&ned=us&js=0
I can only guess that by ‘prominent’ they mean press coverage, not reality.
Good catch!
(I used to like reading Scientific American 30 years ago - it’s still published these days?)
“1610 — BOOM! — 50 million American Indians died of smallpox (”exterminated”).”
That’s interesting, because most historians put the pre-Colombian population of North America at 20-30,000,000, and some put it at much less.
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