GGG Ping.
So fred flinstone saved us from an ice age, this is a GOOD THING...
But the leftists want us all to go back to the trees....
Moron gore-bull warnists
Climate ‘scientists’ continue to glom onto lots and lots of fat government grants with this sort of utterly nonsensical claptrap.
The money would be far better allocated to defense.
So the Ruddiman guy says farming caused global warming? Sounds to me like he needs to be the first to give up agriculture. He can go live in the woods and eat grubs and berries.
“Ruddiman and his colleagues found that that carbon dioxide levels rose beginning 7,000 years ago, and methane began rising 5,000 years ago” and then, after using very big words that mean absolutely nothing, they applied for their next multi-million dollar grant ...
I always thought that Barney Rubble was up to no good. He was just a bit too cheerful all of the time.
Blame? If it was possible that early man caused the ice age climate to warm (ridiculous assertion since recurring ice ages and warming periods preceded Homo Sapiens in the geologic record) shouldn’t the word be “Credit”? I’m tired of reading “science” articles written by people who were obviously stoned (Albert Gore Jr.) or wanking (Bill Nye) through their actual science classes.
Uh huh. The latest estimate I could find offhand is 2 million human beings worldwide at that period. No machinery, nothing but campfires. Compare everything every one of them could do in a lifetime with one volcano and tell me how you’re going to derive signal from all that noise. Color me extremely skeptical.
Early man, yes, but not of the Flintstones sort, and not “slash and burn”.
One article I saw laid the biggest blame on early AGRICULTURAL man, specifically those practicing irrigation farming, and of the set, the subset who pioneered the growing of rice.
The “artificial swamps” that were the result of that development produced both CO2 AND methane in large quantities. And methane is a far stronger greenhouse agent than carbon dioxide.
Thank you!
Bedrock science... /sarcasm off
Sponsoring FReepers are contributing
$10 Each time a New Monthly Donor signs up!
Get more bang for your FR buck!
Click Here To Sign Up Now!
Global Warming on Free Republic here, here and here
Haven’t these AGW idiots been aware of the phenomenon of lightning initiated forest fires before? How about lightning initiated wild prairie fires? They still happen today and absent the intervention of man, they have to burn themselves out.
For these AGW types to assume that ancient agrarian communities needed or could even use the acreage they’d get from slash and burn is absurd. That is only benefited by huge farming techniques available today. Brute force farming available in paleolithic or even bronze age times cannot handle what would be left behind from a “slash and burn” land clearing method.
The AGW crowd is clutching at straws to prove their untenable claims.
According to “progressives,” humans should have made the conscious decision to starve and freeze to death.
Choosing not to become extinct was a bad thing.
Shame on us.
And they wonder how anyone with half a brain renounces the witchcraft of anthropogenic global warming