How Prehistoric Farmers Saved Us From A New Ice Age

The Guardian (UK) ^ | 3-6-2005 | Robin McKie

[blam]

I don't believe this theory either.

[taxesareforever]

Global cooling, global warming, global guessing

[keithtoo]

Whatever.

[steenkeenbadges]

Say what??

[blam]

GGG Ping.

Global warming, farming ping.

[StoneGiant]

[stevem]

It's a widely known fact that as the sun burns out, it both cools and gets larger. Eventually is will become a red star and consume the solar system, at least as far our as Mars. It's also a widely known fact that it expands faster than it cools...So...

The perimeter of the sun is getting closer to the earth as we speak...So...

What we really have is global brightening...except when it gets dimmer.

[Ditter]

I was expecting the old cow flatulance theory.

[Fiddlstix]

BTTT

[Uncle Miltie]

Zog's fault!

[blam]

"I was expecting the old cow flatulance theory."

Yeah, just think of where we'd be if all those bison hadn't been killed.

[agooga]

This seems like a stealthy move to lend more credance to current global warming by saying that GW was real back then when we had virtually zero industrialization-- so IT MUST BE REAL now that we have so much.

I don't buy this at all. I'm going to need a lot of peer review and corroboration before I even consider taking this seriously.

If prmitive agrarians could raise the global temperature by a single degree, then we should be literally broiling right now.

[TapTap]

I have a question/confession: We had some great chili for dinner. Am I responsible for future global warming?

[tillacum]

The ancestors who saved us from another ice age probably left graphs, spreadsheets and well documented records for this generation of world saviors. (tree huggers)

[Wonder Warthog]

"I don't believe this theory either."

Actually, it's far more likely to be correct than the current "global warming" scenarios, since methane is a far more powerful greenhouse gas than CO2.

At least this guy's theory is based on actual measurements and hard data and not computer models.

[Wonder Warthog]

"This seems like a stealthy move to lend more credance to current global warming by saying that GW was real back then when we had virtually zero industrialization-- so IT MUST BE REAL now that we have so much."

Not really. Industrialization results in mostly increases in CO2. The main greenhouse gas in the "early global warming" theory is methane, which is a far more powerful "warming" gas than CO2.

[TASMANIANRED]

Global BS.

[c-b 1]

I was expecting the old cow flatulance theory.

This article came from the back of a bull, flatulance it is not.

[taxesareforever]

Global BS.

With a side of fratulence thrown in. I mean out.

[delacoert]

Mythology as science.