Global warming caused by mammoth extinction

Cosmos ^ | Friday, 9 July 2010 | Holly Hight

[Mojave]

WASHINGTON, D.C.: Even as far back as 15,000 years, humans may have had a hand in global warming, scientists suggesting that ancient hunters may have hastened the extinction of mammoths, which used to thrive in Siberia and North America.

According to a new study in the American Geophysical Union (AGU), the resulting change in vegetation may have contributed to heating by as much as 0.1 degrees Celsius (or 0.18 degrees Fahrenheit), which doesn't seem like much, but it could've had a huge impact.

"By showing that the disappearance of the mammoths probably impacted climate, we get to an interesting if-then situation. If humans contributed to the disappearance of the mammoth, they impacted the climate in doing that," said a researcher on the study, Chris Field of the Carnegie Institution for Science in Stanford, California.

[FormerACLUmember]

Complete Bulls**t then.

Complete Bulls**t now.

[MotorCityBuck]

For God’s sake, get these people help!

[Desdemona]

Ice ages...yeah, never mind.

[DTogo]

Fred Flintstone on Mammoth hunting trips in Barney’s SUV...

[VeniVidiVici]

Wow! Imagine what we had to do to get rid of all of those dinosaurs!!

[Grizzled Bear]

Hunting Mammoths did not cause global warming.

I caused global warming.

When I was but a small child, in the dead of winter, I stood with the door open. My mother said, “Shut that door! Are you trying to heat the outside?”

I confess, I held the door open for at least 30 seconds longer in a selfish attempt to heat the outdoors.

I’m so ashamed.

[stylin19a]

frozen mammoth found

hmmmm....

[kinghorse]

Friction creates global warming. Eliminate friction, eliminate warming. And you're welcome.

[HereInTheHeartland]

There is no dividing line between satire and leftist political thought anymore. The Onion has ceased to be amusing.
Utter insanity.
NASA has morphed into a Muslim self esteem group, and now this kind of thing.
Insanity.

[Hexenhammer]

uh huh, right. not that we’re on the decline world wide long before humans covered most of the earth, but ok, sure, we’ll believe you this time.

or not.

hide the decline.

[alecqss]

I think this magazine is an elaborate satire.
Anyways, my bet is on mammoth farting, so to say.

[Fresh Wind]

According to a new study in the American Geophysical Union...

Research grant running out. Must shake the money tree some more...

[dfwgator]

"See, I told you so."

[MotorCityBuck]

Like a bad stand up routine. Truly, and desperately sad.

[TASMANIANRED]

They froze with food still in their mouths.

[Flag_This]

Those ancient humans were B-U-S-Y! They apparently hunted all these animals to extinction: mammoth, mastodon, giant cave bear, short-faced bear, giant bison, giant ground sloth, north american horse, north american camel, giant beaver, stag-moose, dire wolf and american lion. And that's just a partial list!

Fortunately, their descendants learned from this Pleistocene holocaust and they came to live in perfect harmony with nature - as depicted in "Dances with Wolves."

[randog]

When are these guys gonna tackle the tough questions, like “What if a frog had a square @ss”....?

[Mojave]

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[MotorCityBuck]

Ahh, I never thought of that.

[Intolerant in NJ]

Actually global warming, to the extent it exists, is caused by the “Smart Growth” movement advocated by fashionable intellectuals and environmental utopians who want all new building crammed together in gigantic enclaves to help cut down on automobile travel,allow people to walk wherever they want to go, and kill “suburban sprawl” - this creates major thermal masses which trap and hold heat, raising the temperature within and nearby by several degrees at least - during our recent heat waves in this area, weather experts issued heat warnings for Philadelphia and its immediate surroundings, but not for those of us in a radius more than twenty miles away - silly environmentalists are going to kill us all with their save the world schemes......

[Grizzled Bear]

...mammoth, mastodon, giant cave bear, short-faced bear, giant bison, giant ground sloth, north american horse, north american camel, giant beaver, stag-moose, dire wolf and american lion....

"...and don't you forget my unicorn..."

[steelyourfaith]

 

Beam me to Planet Gore !

[alecqss]

I know, I’ve read it. Still - names, titles, motto, content of articles - all of it reads as a satire. I envy the people of the next century - they will read it and have so much fun - all without having to pay for that “science” through the nose.

[mylife]

I am more and more convinced over the years that PHD is an acronym for “piled higher and deeper”

[UCANSEE2]

“By showing that the disappearance of the mammoths probably impacted climate, we get to an interesting if-then situation. If humans contributed to the disappearance of the mammoth, they impacted the climate in doing that,”

And since GOD created man, then GOD caused global warming.

[UCANSEE2]

They are completely wrong. That's not what caused global warming. It was ACORN.

[headsonpikes]

The dire wolf ate your dang unicorn.

[count-your-change]

Once over the mountain of “if” the “then” is a just a stroll down hill.

[garjog]

I thought that it was Bush’s fault?

[garjog]

"Pleistocene"

I love that era. I always fantasize about finding a Clovis point. Wouldn't that be cool? I collect arrow heads, but these babes are out of my price range under the Obama economic austerity regime.

[John Locke]

Wait a minute... Last month, it was mammoths farting that caused global warming (all that methane, you know). This month, it's mammoths not farting that cause global warming?

Surely something is amiss... I wonder what ...

[Mojave]

Even more remarkably, the mammoth extinction simultaneously caused global cooling and global warming.

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/sciencefair/post/2010/05/mammoth-extinction-triggered-climate-cooling/1

[TigersEye]

Where is even the most rudimentary evidence that human hunting activity had anything to do with the extinction of mammoths? It would be highly unlikely.

[TigersEye]

Speaking of giant bison; that raises a question. Or two. Where did modern bison come from if ancient man killed all the giant bison? Why didn't more recent hunters eliminate the much smaller modern bison? Wouldn't they have been easier to kill with the improved spears and arrows (archaeology bears that out) and the smaller size of the bison? Not to mention the fact that all those other huge animals were gone leaving little else to hunt.

Ancient man must have been like ants covering the whole of the earth.

[PIF]

Ancient man must have been like ants covering the whole of the earth.

Indeed. They were also very fat from eating every animal they found and so, eventually, became too fat to hunt any longer, which lead to the extinction of ancient man.

This extinction was aided by the dearth of very large game, and lead to the inevitable cannibalism, which in turn left few bones of ancient man to be found by industrious PHD types, which in turn lead to a huge rise in speculative activities by said PHD types in search of grant money so they too could become very fat.

[Jaxter]

Global warming...it's so easy a caveman can do it..

[Gorzaloon]

"By combining these steps, we can get from fewer mammoths to a warmer climate," Field said.

Added Todd Surovell, an anthropologist

Where to begin?

Well, my neighbor, who is a janitor, explained than to reduce CO2 and increase O2, we need to plant trees.

The guy at the gas station said all the mammoths were eaten by the clovis People.

This is one reason unemployment will remain high. Many jobs are still held by endangered idiots.

[Right Wing Assault]

Damn! What are we waiting on?? Cut down all them damn trees and plant grassland. Get everyone down to the Amazon with a chain saw. I’m tired of this hot weather.

It never ceases to amaze me what BS the human mind can dream up with a little mistaken “cause and effect!”

[chainsaw]

Thought up by a retarded. ultra liberal, democrat!

[Mojave]

Where is even the most rudimentary evidence that human hunting activity had anything to do with the extinction of mammoths?

Man existed at the time. That's all the eco-crazies need.

[Mojave]

When I was but a small child, in the dead of winter, I stood with the door open.

Hmmm, doors cause Global Warming®...

You know, that could be the basis for a very lucrative grant application!

[TigersEye]

What a vicious circle! lol

[TigersEye]

Theories about hunter/gatherers made by “scientists” who couldn’t survive a four day camp out at a KOA.

[tdscpa]

No. Doors do not do anything. If you ever watch crime shows, you will learn that someone died, and their door was ajar. Jars are the problem, not doors. When you try to make a door out of a jar, you are about to die.