[Red Badger]

So, if we plat too many trees we'll all freeze to death?...................

[Red Badger]

Too many trees bad ping............

[the invisib1e hand]

so the cure for global warming is pandemic?

[ZirconEncrustedTweezers]

To paraphrase Sarah Palin: “Log, baby, log!”

[IrishPennant]

[rfp1234]

Nevle and Bird synthesized published data from charcoal records from 15 sediment cores extracted from lakes, soil samples from 17 population centers and 18 sites from the surrounding areas in Central and South America.

Jeez, how low have academic standards gone? The numbers of data points (15, 17, 18) seem, IMHO, too low for defensible statistical accuracy.

[An.American.Expatriate]

"There are other causes at play," Nevle said. "But reforestation is certainly a first-order contributor."
He continued by stating "The prime contributer though, is the Bush Regime.

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

*sigh*

/facepalm

[An.American.Expatriate]

Seriously though...

are these “scientists” suggeting that the way to stop global warming is to reduce population?

[bmwcyle]

Start by killing more Christmas trees today!

[sionnsar]

Split atoms, not wood.

[sionnsar]

Barry's Fault^TM

[Defiant]

Except...didn’t the little Ice Age start in the 1200s? Wasn’t that why the Vikings had to abandon Greenland?

[Seruzawa]

Theories based on conjecture based on broken models. Why is this superstitious faith-based articled called “science”?

[Nathan Zachary]

"Stanford University researchers have conducted a comprehensive analysis of data detailing the amount of charcoal contained in soils and lake sediments at the sites of both pre-Columbian population centers in the Americas and in sparsely populated surrounding regions. They concluded that reforestation of agricultural lands-abandoned as the population collapsed-pulled so much carbon out of the atmosphere that it helped trigger a period of global cooling, at its most intense from approximately 1500 to 1750, known as the Little Ice Age."

Damn that Al Gore and his "carbon credit" idiocy.

Look what he's done. It's - 40 out when it should be only -11. He and his tree planting enviro geeks have brought on an ice age...

As for these so called "Scientists", it's a JOKE to consider that all the "reforested land" was somehow "aboriginal farmland". How about reforestation after recession of the great ice age? Carbon in lakes and sub souls? How about thousands of years of forest fires burning out of control year after year?
Or did Aboriginals have giant flying pelicans that they used for water bombers?

[Tribune7]

They concluded that reforestation of agricultural lands-abandoned as the population collapsed-pulled so much carbon out of the atmosphere that it helped trigger a period of global cooling, at its most intense from approximately 1500 to 1750, known as the Little Ice Age.

OK, let me understand this: Columbus discovers some Caribbean islands in 1492. This causes a massive pandemic which in eight years kills off enough people to allow massive reforestation of abandoned farms and causes the Little Ice Age.

They should cut to the chase and just blame it on Karl Rove.

[TYVets]

Reforestation takes place.

It gets cold

I cut down trees, build fires to stay warm

Deforestation takes place

It gets warm

I don't cut down trees to stay warm

Reforestation takes place..........

[Old Professer]

As far as I know this is a novel theory since it relies on manmade activity at a time when there were very few people to account for a significant change; worldwide population in 1600 was maybe 70-75 million while in the Americas there were maybe 5 million since no census was ever done of native Americans.

The real point of this report is likely to be to establish a direct correlation to changes in CO2 content and climate, which is rather like untying one’s shoes to learn how to tie them again.

[steelyourfaith]

 

Beam me to Planet Gore !

[neverdem]

thanks, bfl

[metesky]