[Waco]

Bullshite begets more bullshite.

[wildbill]

They still use slash and burn farming in Mexico and sometimes there is enough smoke in the atmosphere that it is visible in Texas when the wind is right and carries it north.

[colorado tanker]

Are these people willfully ignorant???

The earth began warming after the last glacial cycle and, later, from the Younger Dryas, thousand of years before the advent of agriculture. Unfriggingbelieveable.

[Teacher317]

The study, published in the scientific journal Quaternary Science Reviews and reported on the University of Virginia's Web site, says over thousands of years, farmers burned down so many forests on such a large scale that huge amounts of carbon dioxide were pumped into the atmosphere.

Absolute horse-puckey. Ancient man had no need to burn forests, since space was abundant. There were no suburbs and urban areas to work around. Forests were an incredibly valuable resource, for meat, building materials, and firewood. With no global scarcity of space for farming, there's no reason whatsoever for them to burn their resources to find something that was already plentiful: open ground.

(And, if I recall correctly, there are more trees in the West today than a century ago.)

[steelyourfaith]

 

Beam me to Planet Gore !