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Was Genghis Khan history's greenest conqueror? (Mongol invasion scrubbed 700 million tons of carbon)
Mother Nature Network ^ | 01/25/2011 | Bryan Nelson

Posted on 01/25/2011 9:08:45 AM PST by SeekAndFind

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1 posted on 01/25/2011 9:08:52 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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GENGHIS GREEN: The founder of history's largest contiguous empire cooled the planet while taking a body count. (Photo: Wiki Commons/public domain)
2 posted on 01/25/2011 9:09:46 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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This environut author forgot to credit Stalin & Mao with their own climate saving efforts.


3 posted on 01/25/2011 9:12:27 AM PST by caver (Obama: Home of the Whopper)
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Genghis Khan
Lenin
Stalin
Hitler
Mao
Obama

Heroes of the environmental movement


4 posted on 01/25/2011 9:14:21 AM PST by ClearCase_guy
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Hitler, too. *rolls eyes*

These environuts are absolutely insane.


5 posted on 01/25/2011 9:15:06 AM PST by RushIsMyTeddyBear
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To: SeekAndFind

And here we go. Save the earth: Kill lots and lots of people.

Help get the people on board for the leftist leaders’ existing plans for mass murder and genocide.

I’m sure only “bad people” in the TEA Party will be targeted in the crosshairs of the enviro-killers’ (government’s) sights, right, Lefties?


6 posted on 01/25/2011 9:15:25 AM PST by MichiganConservative (Terrorists don't commit genocide. That's what governments do.)
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For a dose of reality, see:

Another “mankind as evil carbonator, even way back then” study
Posted on January 24, 2011 by Anthony Watts
Last week we were treated to the ridiculous story about Genghis Khan having an impact (or apparently not enough) with his impact on humanity. This week, a “new interpretation”; it’s the Romans and Christopher Columbus who are the ghosts of climate injustices past by daring to enable use of forest resources.


7 posted on 01/25/2011 9:15:25 AM PST by WhiskeyX
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Surely Mao Zedong, the father of communist China, removed far more carbon from the atmosphere through his “great leap forward” program that killed 80 million.


8 posted on 01/25/2011 9:16:22 AM PST by GreatJoeMcCarthy
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Brings to mind my favorite quote from My Cousin Vinny;

"Everything that guy just said is Bull$8/T!",/i>

9 posted on 01/25/2011 9:16:48 AM PST by de.rm (Bang, bang, . . bang. Shhh=Bush, the elder, E. Howard Hunt, LBJ, Mrs, Edgar Hoover)
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Genghis was a bad motor scooter.
But Attila wasn’t so bad: his wife and waitresses called him `Hon.’


10 posted on 01/25/2011 9:16:56 AM PST by tumblindice (You say Demoblicans, I say Republicrats)
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To: SeekAndFind

Soylent Green is carbon!


11 posted on 01/25/2011 9:17:25 AM PST by ClearCase_guy
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Author neglects to note that in the 13th and 14th centuries, there was minimal fossil-fuel use, so the carbon taken out of the atmosphere wouldn’t have been put there by humans.

“13th and 14th centuries” also corresponds roughly to the beginning of the Little Ice Age and the Bubonic Plague epidemic that hit Europe in the early 1300s, killing tens of millions of people.

I presume the author celebrates that also.


12 posted on 01/25/2011 9:19:03 AM PST by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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This research is so pointless, so useless, and so irrelevent that it must have been taxpayer funded.


13 posted on 01/25/2011 9:21:20 AM PST by pnh102 (Regarding liberalism, always attribute to malice what you think can be explained by stupidity. - Me)
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Clarifying, the article claims the Mongol invasion cooled the planet, which I am suggesting reinforced the cooling associated with the Maunder Minimum, the net total result of which was the Little Ice Age and Black Death.

Watermelons licking their chops trying to figure out how to replicate that today.


14 posted on 01/25/2011 9:22:34 AM PST by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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Rainbow Six - by Tom Clancy


15 posted on 01/25/2011 9:23:18 AM PST by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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The reality may be a bit difficult for today's environmentalists to stomach, but Khan did it the same way he built his empire — with a high body count.

This writer is a moron. This is the enviro's solution to a t.

16 posted on 01/25/2011 9:25:18 AM PST by 1raider1
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"Based on the knowledge we have gained from the past, we are now in a position to make land-use decisions that will diminish our impact on climate and the carbon cycle. We cannot ignore the knowledge we have gained," she said.

The knowledge that barbarian hordes that slaughter kill the weak kneed slack jawed idiots like her? Land use for mass graves?
The knowledge that totalitarianism kills for the takeover of the land and control of the territory taken?

She is a drooling idiot, and didn't learn the lesson at all.
17 posted on 01/25/2011 9:25:50 AM PST by King_Corey (www.kingcorey.com)
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10K miles, several mountains ranges, a desert ...what's not to like?
18 posted on 01/25/2011 9:28:31 AM PST by Daffynition ( Live EACH DAY as if it were your last, but EXPECT that there still may be a tomorrow.)
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RE: Surely Mao Zedong, the father of communist China, removed far more carbon from the atmosphere through his “great leap forward” program that killed 80 million.


Not sure about that number. The Great Leap Forward is one of those events in history where the number of dead people have not been accounted for with much accuracy. Some put it as low as 10 Million, some ( as in the above ) as high as an alarming 80 million.

We can never be sure how many died.


19 posted on 01/25/2011 9:29:55 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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If you will actually pay attention to the conquests of Ghengis Khan, you will notice that whenever he conquered a city, he only removed the leaders and then left the people, customs, religion and lifestyles in place so that he could trade with them. The excepts were muslim cities. The muslims gave him so many problems and he could not trust them to uphold their word, so he razed their cities and killed everyone of them that he encountered.

Ghengis Khan might not have been as bad as our agenda driven teachers led us to believe.


20 posted on 01/25/2011 9:33:17 AM PST by BuffaloJack (Re-Elect President Sarah Palin 2016)
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