America colonisation ‘cooled Earth's climate’

bbc ^ | 01/31/2019 | Jonathan Amos

[BenLurkin]

Bottom line: The deaths of 50 million people "cooled the climate"

[Red Badger]

Yeah, all those wooden ships took away the forests of Europe....................

[rktman]

So, now we're causing overheating to make up for the cooling? 🌨⚖☀️🔥

[ClearCase_guy]

The Little Ice Age lasted maybe 400 years, perhaps from 1450 to 1850 (estimates vary). And this was caused by colonies in America? Good to know.

I always though that solar events like the Maunder Minimum — when the sunspots basically disappeared — might have been involved somehow. But I guess it was us.

[Redwood71]

If you want a laugh, check this out:

https://jancovici.com/en/climate-change/predicting-the-future/how-do-the-present-temperatures-compare-to-the-past-ones/

rwood

[ProtectOurFreedom]

60 million aborigines in the Western Hemisphere before the evil white man arrived?

That sounds preposterously high.

So white man arriving made the climate cool? There you have it! White Man GOOD!!

[JBW1949]

And just how did 90% of the America population die in 100 years????

[DuncanWaring]

I’ve also seen Genghis Khan described in semi-glowing terms because he killed enough people that the newly-abandoned lands reverted to forest to absorb CO2 in significant quantities.

[DuncanWaring]

Probably disease, mostly.

[dead]

The team says the disruption that followed European settlement led to a huge swathe of abandoned agricultural land being reclaimed by fast-growing trees and other vegetation. This pulled down enough carbon dioxide (CO₂) from the atmosphere to eventually chill the planet.

Sounds like a conclusion in search of some science it can call proof.

For one thing, "agricultural land" generally already has something growing on it, that's the point of creating agricultural land. So the crops dying and being replaced by natural vegetation would have minimal effect. There were also volcanoes, sunspots and a billion other inputs and factors present during this same period.

[glorgau]

The Little Ice Age lasted maybe 400 years, perhaps from 1450 to 1850 ...

Irrelevant. All ills in the world must in some way be blamed on white males. This theory accomplishes that.

Crush the patriarchy!!

[GOPJ]

If the bbc and climate ‘scientists’ said water was wet I’d start doubting water was wet...

[hal ogen]

That dam* America! We must close it down. Those white devils ruined the planet. Anyone and anything white must be abolished.

[JBW1949]

That’s a helluva lot in such a short time span...

[DuncanWaring]

Proper bottom line - Native Americans caused Global Warming.

[rktman]

😹👍🏼

[Reily]

some say 1300 !

[DuncanWaring]

Bubonic Plague killed half the population of Europe in four years.

The “Spanish Flu” epidemic 100 years ago killed quite a few in a fairly short period, also.

[JBW1949]

Yeah, but 90%????

[FreedomPoster]

Disease. No herd immunity to smallpox and a host of other things.

I strongly question the population numbers though.