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'Fires wiped out' ancient mammals
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| 7/8/05
| Helen Briggs
Posted on 07/08/2005 9:39:15 AM PDT by LibWhacker
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To: LibWhacker
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posted on
07/08/2005 9:40:20 AM PDT
by
Redcloak
(We'll raise up our glasses against evil forces singin' "whiskey for my men and beer for my horses!")
To: PatrickHenry
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posted on
07/08/2005 9:41:59 AM PDT
by
Vaquero
(an armed society is a polite society (Heinlein).)
To: Redcloak
"It's all Bush's fault."
I agree. :)
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posted on
07/08/2005 9:42:56 AM PDT
by
LibSnubber
(liberal democrats are domestic terrorists)
To: LibWhacker
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posted on
07/08/2005 9:43:02 AM PDT
by
Archon of the East
("universal executive power of the law of nature")
To: LibWhacker
when does the trial begin?
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posted on
07/08/2005 9:43:16 AM PDT
by
sure_fine
(*not one to over kill the thought process*)
To: LibWhacker
The evidence, published in Science magazine, comes from ancient eggshells. Have they been looking in my trash again?
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posted on
07/08/2005 9:44:58 AM PDT
by
COBOL2Java
(If this isn't the End Times it certainly is a reasonable facsimile...)
To: LibWhacker; blam; SunkenCiv; nickcarraway
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posted on
07/08/2005 9:46:39 AM PDT
by
Fiddlstix
(This Tagline for sale. (Presented by TagLines R US))
To: LibWhacker
DDT hadn't be outlawed during that time.
To: LibWhacker
The first humans to arrive in Australia destroyed the pristine landscape...
&&
No, that can't be; only European settlers damaged the environment wherever they went. Indigenous people never hurt anything. /sarc
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posted on
07/08/2005 9:47:08 AM PDT
by
Bigg Red
(Never trust Democrats with national security.)
To: LibWhacker
The first humans to arrive in Australia destroyed the pristine landscape, probably by lighting huge fires That's it, blame the Black Fellows.
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To: LibWhacker
The Kyoto Treaty could have prevented this horrible release of greenhouse gases.
Prepare the Wayback Machine and the Chrono-Lawyers!
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posted on
07/08/2005 9:51:46 AM PDT
by
Gefreiter
("Are you drinking 1% because you think you're fat?")
To: LibWhacker
I guess we attract lightning?? /rolling eyes here....
To: LibWhacker
***The first humans to arrive in Australia destroyed the pristine landscape, ***
AHA! Proof at last that the evil white man was there first! (Sarcasm off)
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posted on
07/08/2005 9:55:01 AM PDT
by
Ruy Dias de Bivar
(IN GOD IS OUR TRUST! from the National Anthem, last verse.)
To: LibWhacker
The first humans to arrive in Australia destroyed the pristine landscape, probably by lighting huge fires, the latest research suggests.No wonder the Deep Ecology types want to wipe out the human race - we're all, black and white, just a bunch of anarcho-arsonist vandals!
Oh, wait a minute, that's their gig.
What to think!
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posted on
07/08/2005 9:56:03 AM PDT
by
headsonpikes
("The U.S. Constitution poses no serious threat to our form of government.")
To: Fiddlstix; blam; FairOpinion; Ernest_at_the_Beach; StayAt HomeMother; 24Karet; 3AngelaD; asp1; ...
Thanks Fiddlstix. Here's something related, from 1999, with a link direct to the full PDF file (the Science website requires member access, even for the abstract, and the old URL I had no longer exists).
Pleistocene Extinction of Genyornis newtoni:
Human Impact on Australian Megafauna
Gifford H. Miller, John W. Magee,
Beverly J. Johnson, Marilyn L. Fogel,
Nigel A. Spooner, Malcolm T. McCulloch,
Linda K. Ayliffe
Jan 8 1999
Abstract
Science, Volume 283, Number 5399 Issue of 8 Jan 1999, pp. 205 - 208
More than 85 percent of Australian terrestrial genera with a body mass exceeding 44 kilograms became extinct in the Late Pleistocene. Although most were marsupials, the list includes the large, flightless mihirung Genyornis newtoni. More than 700 dates on Genyornis eggshells from three different climate regions document the continuous presence of Genyornis from more than 100,000 years ago until their sudden disappearance 50,000 years ago, about the same time that humans arrived in Australia. Simultaneous extinction of Genyornis at all sites during an interval of modest climate change implies that human impact, not climate, was responsible.
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Archaeology/Anthropology/Ancient Cultures/Artifacts/Antiquities, etc.
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posted on
07/08/2005 10:20:23 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(last updated by FR profile on Tuesday, May 10, 2005.)
To: blam
Also check out Steven Pyne's
The Burning Bush: A Fire History of Australia.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0295976772/ref=lpr_g_1/103-2721266-1053422?v=glance&s=books
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posted on
07/08/2005 10:23:54 AM PDT
by
Thud
To: LibWhacker
We're all DOOMED. The humans have arrived here on Earth! (Wait a second. That's us isn't it? Oh nevermind)
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posted on
07/08/2005 10:30:39 AM PDT
by
John O
(God Save America (Please))
To: LibWhacker
Sounds like the first humans in Australia were U.S. Forest Service bureaucrats.
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posted on
07/08/2005 11:20:28 AM PDT
by
yoswif
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