Posted on 01/20/2016 11:02:52 AM PST by blam
January 20, 2016
FoxNews.com
The world’s first farmers and their slash-and-burn agriculture may have set off global warming.
A new analysis of ice-core climate data, archaeological evidence and ancient pollen samples is being used to suggest farming some 7,000 years ago helped put the brakes on a natural cooling process of the global climate, possibly contributing the warmer climate seen today.
But the study is expected to raise a few eyebrows, given there were far fewer people on Earth back then and industrialization -- and the coal-fired power plants that come with it -- was still a long ways off.
Related: Scientist who urged government to sue climate skeptics gets millions from taxpayers
A study was the work of an international team led by William Ruddiman, a University of Virginia climate scientist, who first grabbed attention a dozen years ago with a controversial theory that humans altered the climate by burning massive areas of forests to clear the way for crops and livestock grazing. Dubbed the “early anthropogenic hypothesis,†Ruddiman and his colleagues found that that carbon dioxide levels rose beginning 7,000 years ago, and methane began rising 5,000 years ago.
It sparked heated debate back then and continues to be debated among some climate scientists.
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by Euell Gibbons
http://www.ruralvermont.com/vermontweathervane/issues/winter/97012/eatpine.shtml
And of course Euell Gibbons died of natural causes....
Uhhhh.....you may want to reconsider.
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.
My money is on Stony Curtis.
I heard it was grape nuts.
LOL!!
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
Well, the good news is, it’s not to late for them to get started... AND, it’s winter here in the Northern Hemisphere!
Make something up, then demand a grant to “study” it. Sweet!
Local conditions? Maybe, but even that's a stretch. But climate? Not a snowball's chance.
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http://www.ruralvermont.com/vermontweathervane/issues/winter/97012/eatpine.shtml
When I copy and paste this link it works okay, if I try and make it a hot link?, it fails. The article is ,i>Did You Ever Eat A Pine Tree</i> by Euel Gibbons. Really weird when I preview now the link works as a hot link even though I didn’t use the commands.
Thanks blam. IOW, the Global Warming Hoaxters can't handle the 100 percent failure of their various bogus warming models, and are now attempting to shift attention to yet another 100 percent natural change in the weather, in this case, in prehistoric times.
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