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 whole Indian war started when they attacked the Jamestown settlers unprovoked. Three days after landing. Besides that, this is probably the dumbest thing since they gave Obama a peace prize cause it might make him peaceful. Lol.
Yeah, the various tribes worked to kill each other off. They weren't natives, either, of course.
Why did the cliff dwellers of North America live where they did? Because other tribes chased them there.
Why do people who live way up in the Andes? As people moved south in South America thousands of years ago, I'm sure they said, "Hey, let's live way up there in those mountains where there's not much air, and a lot of rock, and even some of the animals won't live there. Even if those savage tribes weren't chasing us, I would just love to live way up there."
Paul Bunyan was an Indian?
It did not appear that the article mentioned that very pertinent fact. Since they did not, I did not take that into consideration.
The whole premise is absurd for that and other reasons.
For example: What about reforestation after the slaughter of the buffaloes?
The vast herds of Buffalo would have kept the forests from spreading as saplings would be trampled.
Actually there was... some even estimate up to 100 million.
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=population+of+precolumbian+americas&t=lm&atb=v113-5_f&ia=web
Oh, you’re going straight to h-e-double hockeysticks for that one!
It’s funny, though.
Complete bull$hit. And the history of the world is stronger peoples conquering weaker. Has always happened. No reason to be ashamed of what other people did in the past.
The word ‘professor’ increasingly means someone who isn’t actually educated or learned, lacks both scholarship and science skills, is abjectly ignorant of so many things, is immoral, intellectually shallow, gutless, and is filled with irrational hatred of the very civilization that created universities in the first place.
This is a filthy lie.
The Indians had a tremendous forestry program at old Indian University.
They had a great football team, too.
The Wagonburners were 8-3 in the Pioneer League.
This seem improbable. Did that level of death come anywhere close to that from the Black Plague? And just how many white people were over here in the 1400s and 1500s?
I read a very interesting piece once about how there was a major, major pandemic among the Native American population just prior to when the real colonization started. I can’t remember if it said what disease was, but they did speculate that if this hadn’t happened the white man would not have been able to subdue the native population. I’m not sure that’s true of course, because technologically we had it all over those folks.
It did say that Squanto (I think is the name) who helped the pilgrims had likely escaped death because somehow he had ended up in Europe (again, I forget why/how) and when he returned he basically found his whole tribe wiped out.
The article presented this as an overlooked chapter in history, but I never researched it any further. It was on Mental Floss, or some site like that.
The smallpox blanket story is a hoax by the original fake Indian.
OK!! Everybody pay attention!
Lesson for today:
1. The sun is 1,300,000 times as big as the earth.
2. The sun is a giant nuclear furnace that controls the climates of all its planets.
3. The earth is one of the sun’s planets.
4. The earth is a speck in comparison to the size of the sun.
5. Inhabitants of the earth are less than specks.
Study Question: How do less-than-specks in congress plan to control the sun?
The lack of historical reality here is troublesome.
The title of the article is “Native Americans”
Besides, those 37 million are more accurately estimated to be 15 million in Mexico and Central America, who were reduced to 2 million over the next 100 years through war and disease...
Amazing, isn’t it, how low folks in research can get to push an agenda?
LOL
Not you... This board. I see you are much more educated than most about historic realities. :)
The Pequot war was started when a large number of the local Indians converted to Christianity. This was my families first introduction to Colonial/Indian relations, when I look at family history it went down hill from there.
I remember Maslin from some other Bullcrap studies on climate change from years ago. Guess this guy never gives up, at least not until the grants stop coming.
There never was 56 million indigenous native Americans (No. Central or South America, combined). I worked on the Tikal Outer Area project to find the dwellings of the workers who would support the temple complex, priests, etc. and we found a few house-mounds, usually in groupings of 3 unit, outwards of the main temple area, but nothing like what it would take to support millions of people (work after I left probably found more house-mounds and other smaller cities/religious complexes, but their numbers would be in the thousands or tens of thousands of support people (farmers mainly, stone carvers, etc).
I wonder if Maslin has ever been in a real jungle. It is so green that the Irish are jealous of its coloration. Oxygen/CO2 exchanges keep it growing even in bad weather.
How did this guy get a real job with a real university? Did someone give him a Visitor’s Pass and he just stayed to the point they thought he “was” a member of their staff?
RE: The smallpox blanket story is a hoax by the original fake Indian.
OK, let’s say the blanket story is fake, but what about SMALL POX per se? Wasn’t it brought here by the white man?
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