Posted on 02/01/2019 7:42:24 PM PST by EdnaMode
European colonizers who arrived in the Americas caused death and disease to the point that it sparked what some have called the first major human-induced change in the Earth’s climate, a new study has found.
The study, conducted by researchers at the University College London (UCL), found that the arrival of European settlers killed nearly 56 million indigenous people over the course of roughly 100 years, causing large areas of farmland to go abandoned and reforested.
The study said the new swath of vegetated land, which CNN reported was roughly the size of France at the time, caused a massive decrease in carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere.
Levels of carbon in the atmosphere had changed so much that it caused the planet to experience a global chill in 1610 that is now known as the Little Ice Age, researchers said.
"CO2 and climate had been relatively stable until this point," UCL geography professor Mark Maslin, one of the co-authors behind the study, told CNN on Friday. "So, this is the first major change we see in the Earth's greenhouse gases."
Maslin told CNN that he and the team of researchers conducted the study by examining archaeological evidence and historical data and analyzing Antarctic ice, which can trap atmospheric gas and reportedly reveal the quantity of carbon dioxide that was in the atmosphere long ago. He said a combination of all of the above showed researchers how the reforestation that was brought on by the mass slaughter of indigenous people in the Americas led to the global chill.
"The ice cores showed that there was a larger dip in CO2 [than usual] in 1610, which was caused by the land and not the oceans," Alexander Koch, the lead author of the study, told CNN.
"For once, we've been able to balance all the boxes and realize that the only way the Little Ice Age was so intense is ... because of the genocide of millions of people," Maslin added.
Learn sumpin’ new every day.
Related:
“European colonizers killed so many Native Americans that it changed the global climate, researchers say”
https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/01/world/european-colonization-climate-change-trnd/index.html
Oh, no. All white man’s fault.
I only made it one sentence. These lunatics are insane.
Not buying it.
Lots of Europeans were slaughtered by the indigenous peoples also.
Nonsense. Never let the truth get in the way of the agenda.
Since when is “making up sh**” described ss “history”? I call mega BS on these integrity-free “researchers”. These psychopaths should be ashamed of their dishonesty.
maybe this pseudo scientist thinks whites invented smallpox as a bio weapon
(insert laugh emoji here)
You mean when they were killing each other it had no affect?
By that reasoning, Genghis Khan must have changed the global climate. Ditto for Stalin, Hitler, Pol Pot Mao Zedong, etc...
Complete BS. The LIA began ca. 1300 -1350 and possibly as far back as the 1200s. The Norse had abandoned their Greenland colonies by 1480, long before the date cited in the article.
Don’t forget the Black Plague.
Fight global warming by more infanticide?
Quite right.
So killing Indians is an option for reducing the carbon footprint. Got it.
So what about the killings, wars, and genocides that were going on long before the Europeans came to the America’s?
I guess science no longer has any credibility.
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