[rarestia]

Cue retroactive blame game for manmade global warming.

It’s funny, but I always thought that “science” was supposed to blind, but more of the “science” coming out of our institutes of higher learning as of late has been supportive of the idea that man is the reason why Earth “has a fever.”

[untenured]

And yet 500 years on, catastrophe has continued to fail to happen.

[married21]

Maybe ecologists should be happy about the dissemination of species. After all, doesn’t that increase their chances of survival? So if Ireland has Potatoes and America has soy beans, maybe that is not so bad?

[ClearCase_guy]

1610 — BOOM! — 50 million American Indians died of smallpox (”exterminated”).

That’s their claim? And this massive decline in New World agriculture left evidence in Antarctica?

Riiiiiiiight.

[Hugin]

when their fields were no longer tended, trees were able to grow back and suck carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere.

So trees suck CO2 from the atmosphere, but crops don't? Then we can "solve" global warming by planting more trees?

[impactplayer]

I have also read that there were no earth worms in the America’s, but they got here with the bricks loaded in the ships for ballast. This changed the character of the forest floors for ever.

[blam]

Ping.

[arthurus]

There is still thaat nagging little problem that CO2 rises follow warming trends in the geological record rather than the other way preferred by greenies.

[Milton Miteybad]

As a result, they say, 1610 deserves to be designated as the start of the Anthropocene Epoch.

And in a few million years, when humankind has disappeared from the earth due to it being encased in ice...what will the Earth itself choose to call the Anthropocene Epoch? (As it snickers up its Gaian sleeve at the heady hubris of the insignificant specks that were the Earth's former inhabitants.)