I wasn't aware that Columbus cut down any trees let alone that many. The Pilgrims found cleared land that was form a plague that killed the natives in the are where they settled so they are not the ones that cut all the forests down. The land was not completely cleared in the 1800’s for the farmers in the Midwest. There are more trees in the Rockies than there were when Columbus came over. How can a “scientist” get so many things wrong?
No, you got the point of the article wrong.
It was *more* trees that sucked more CO2 out of the atmosphere, that the people advancing this theory say could be linked to the decreased CO2 in the ice in Antarctica, that suggests the drop in temperatures during the Little Ice Age may have had a human origin.
Columbus didn’t cut down NO trees.