[Redcloak]

It's all Bush's fault.

[Vaquero]

ping

[Archon of the East]

All malarkey.

[sure_fine]

when does the trial begin?

[COBOL2Java]

The evidence, published in Science magazine, comes from ancient eggshells.

Have they been looking in my trash again?

[Fiddlstix]

BTTT

[lilylangtree]

DDT hadn't be outlawed during that time.

[Bigg Red]

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

[Mike Darancette]

The first humans to arrive in Australia destroyed the pristine landscape, probably by lighting huge fires

That's it, blame the Black Fellows.

[Gefreiter]

The Kyoto Treaty could have prevented this horrible release of greenhouse gases.

Prepare the Wayback Machine and the Chrono-Lawyers!

[MD_Willington_1976]

I guess we attract lightning?? /rolling eyes here....

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

***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)

[headsonpikes]

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!

[SunkenCiv]

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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[Thud]

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

[John O]

We're all DOOMED. The humans have arrived here on Earth!

(Wait a second. That's us isn't it? Oh nevermind)

[yoswif]

Sounds like the first humans in Australia were U.S. Forest Service bureaucrats.

[Surtur]

Once upon a time, science was about the search for truth. Then, government funding became involved and science has become the hunt for unending research grants. If not, why does every government research study end with "the results are inconclusive, we need more time (they say, but they actually mean money) to fully research the issue."

[Frumious Bandersnatch]

< sarcasm>
Of course, natural wildfire had nothing to do with it, just as modern vulcanism, putting out more CFCs in on explosion than human kind has done during its entire racial history, has nothing to do with climate change either.
< /sarcasm>

[NorseWood]

Too many back yard barbecues