Posted on 02/03/2019 10:41:00 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Researchers at University College in London have published a paper theorizing that the slaughter of Native Americans by whites in the 15th and 16th centuries led to climate change often referred to as "The Little Ice Age."
Temperatures plummeted, the researchers say, after the death of so many indigenous people that the land they were tilling was "reforested," thus leading to an increase in trees and vegation, which means less CO2 was being pumped into the atmosphere.
European settlers killed 56 million indigenous people over about 100 years in South, Central and North America, causing large swaths of farmland to be abandoned and reforested, researchers at University College London, or UCL, estimate. The increase in trees and vegetation across an area the size of France resulted in a massive decrease in carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere, according to the study.
Carbon levels changed enough to cool the Earth by 1610, researchers found. Columbus arrived in 1492,
"CO2 and climate had been relatively stable until this point," said UCL Geography Professor Mark Maslin, one of the study's co-authors. "So, this is the first major change we see in the Earth's greenhouse gases."
Before this study, some scientists had argued the temperature change in the 1600s, called the Little Ice Age, was caused only by natural forces.
The notion that white men killed 56 million Native Americans is beyond speculation; it's fantasy. First and foremost, no one has been able to come up with a figure for the number of Native Americans in the Americas before Columbus. Most tribes did not have a written language. Certainly there were complex civilizations like the Aztecs and Incas, and agriculture was fairly widespread at the time of Columbus.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
The number of animals greatly out weighed the number of people.
It’s ALWAYS Something.
So American Indians caused Global Warming, and Genocide fixed it.
UCL, the community college of London.
This is complete nonsense of course. One would suspect that they were being influenced by rivals intent on making them look like buffoons. But we do not actually have to do this; they do it to themselves.
It’s like a key to lock relationship:
One group of productive people with a pathological need to BE blamed meets another group of dullard people with an unstoppable need to constantly blame others.
It’s a perfect, genocidal synergy.
“European settlers killed 56 million indigenous people”
There weren’t 56 million natives during that period
Period...
So, in essence we have climate change. Anything we do changes the climate. Big sprawling cities change the climate, new farming methods change the climate, indoor bathrooms change the climate, getting up at 7 in the morning versus changes the climate. In other words, just live and forget all the nonsense about warming or cooling.
Oh, and slave ships tossed 8 million of their cargo overboard during the period they were being transported to the continent
Life of Brian...
Elizabeth Warren survived the genocidal attacks.
Yeah the evil English man devastated North America. It should have been the Spanish who took it over because look how good all those South American countries are doing today.
more humans - bad
more white humans - very bad
more non white humans - not so bad
more Leftist humans - not bad at all
most humans Leftist - perfection
VERY BAD...
As long as "climate change" grants are available, "researchers" will come up with ever-more ridiculous causes of "climate change."
I suppose that this is true if you don't count those minor "weather" events called ice ages which last around 100,000 years and interglacial periods like the one we are currently experiencing the tail end of. I guess that they are not counting the Pleistocene ice age that had half a mile of ice ago covering the place where I currently reside just 12,000 years ago. Where do they find these “scientists”?
Yes indeed.
and the 2 World Wars in Europe did what ,besides kill millions ,Oh don’t forget The ‘Spanish’ Influenza pandemic after World War 1
That would be from 1400 to 1599. If we start with Columbus' landing in 1492 that means 56 million Indians were killed in a period of 108 years. That works out to 1,420 Indians a day. Those guys were pretty busy, I'd say.
Of course this explains the lack of SUV’s
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