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[Old Seadog]

I understand the dung beetle is really thriving in Washington D.C. and other areas with large concentrations of politicians.

[Sacajaweau]

IIRC, the wild west was similar and they say if we got it back to what it was, we wouldn’t have so many forest fires.

[ICCtheWay]

Notice the narrative of the typical modern ‘scientists’... (with my comments added)...

“Between 9500 and 6000 BC, the fossils were mostly from open and pasture beetle sp (open and patchy forrests)

“Around 6000 BC forest beetles become more abundant, grassland species decline and ‘we see an overall CLOSING of the forest canopy in the insect record,” says Whitehouse.

“(A return to open - patchy forests) “By 4000 BC, everything changes. This was the time that HUMANS STARTED pursuing an agricultural way of life, raising animals for meat and dairy products. Dung beetles become more abundant, while the other types of beetles decrease. ‘The transition to the Neolithic was rather abrupt,’ says Whitehouse. The dense forest gave way to pasture woodlands and open landscapes, kept open by the increasing number of grazing animals feeding on saplings.”

So (in capsule)...

- We go from open - patchy forests from 9500 to 6000 BC

- Then at 6000 BC or so - we go to Closed Canopy Forest

- Then around 4000 BC “everything changes” - HUMANS ARRIVE — and the forest goes back to open and patchy...

OH MY — Humans caused the forest to go from closed Canopy to Open and Patchy.... OH MY !!! humans did it with their livestock grazing...

OH WAIT — maybe naturally occurring herds of grazing animals caused the forest - back in 9500 BC to be Open and Patchy ...

(Oh - let’s forget that part — as it shows that all humans did with their herds was to return the forest back to the condition it was in 3500 years earlier ...) Damn - we have to hide that data as it does not fit in with Our Anthropological Global Warming theory

Humans did it - Humans did it ... but where was the human influence back in 9500 BC ? OH - how embarrassing ....!!!

Email from the CRU....

[DannyTN]

I’m not sure about forests, I think woodpecker population was patchy.

[fhayek]

I go for this, just as long as they don’t haul out any of those damn tree rings.

[colorado tanker]

I know this is important work, but I'm really glad I don't have to explain to my kids I look at beetle dung for a living.