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European colonizers' mass killing of Native Americans caused change in climate: study
The Hill ^ | February 1, 2019 | Aris Folley

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.


TOPICS: Cheese, Moose, Sister; Chit/Chat; Science; Society; Weather; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: climatechange; fakenews; fakescience; globalwarming; theshill
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To: cyclotic
I only made it one sentence. These lunatics are insane.

Agreed. Complete insanity and devoid of any historical knowledge nor facts.

A complete projection of dystopian fiction from the wild imaginings of SJW scholars.
21 posted on 02/01/2019 7:57:44 PM PST by PA Engineer (Liberate America from the Occupation Media.)
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To: dougherty
Don’t forget the Black Plague.

The Black Plague? Is that some sort of racist disease? 😁😂🤣🤗😆

22 posted on 02/01/2019 7:59:47 PM PST by Mark17 (Genesis chapter 1 verse 1. In the beginning GOD.... And the rest, as they say, is HIS-story)
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To: EdnaMode

These idiots will say anything ,LOL


23 posted on 02/01/2019 8:01:22 PM PST by butlerweave
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To: Mark17
The Black Plague? Is that some sort of racist disease? 😁😂🤣🤗😆

I thought it was the name of a Death Metal band.

24 posted on 02/01/2019 8:01:47 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: EdnaMode

So, by my own equally scientific observation, if all the leftists who want the population cut to a fraction of what it is would take a good stiff drink of hemlock, we would be out of this horrible man made global climate change or whatever it’s called today.


25 posted on 02/01/2019 8:02:46 PM PST by Blue Collar Christian (Socialism is for losers.)
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To: sauropod

Yup. It’s not like these barbarians were a bunch of peaceniks. Most of these clown were blood-thirsty heathens who chopped off your head just for kicks..


26 posted on 02/01/2019 8:04:19 PM PST by max americana (Happily Fired every stupid liberal at every election since 08' at work. I hope all liberals die.)
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To: EdnaMode

Total gibberish!

BTW, there is no such thing a Climate Change. There are 4 seasons. That’s all folks.


27 posted on 02/01/2019 8:08:56 PM PST by EnglishOnly (eWFight all out to win OR get out now. .)
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To: EdnaMode

Now I know why Chicago is in a deep freeze.


28 posted on 02/01/2019 8:08:58 PM PST by Libloather (Trivial Pursuit question - name the first female to lose TWO presidential elections!)
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To: Mark17

Should we call it the African American plague instead???

Someone once said saying black coffee is racist. There is a strain of thought out there, among the kunstic fringe, that saying black in ways unrelated to race are really racist.

I heard someone say the killer bees, the Africanized bees, were racist because of the reference to Africa. The fact that those bees originated in Africa is irrelevant to those who need to make a political statement.


29 posted on 02/01/2019 8:10:07 PM PST by Dilbert San Diego
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To: EdnaMode

This is great news if you are a True Believer Leftist!

American Indians deforested their part of Gaia, causing Global Warming. Then Genocide ended the Global Warming.

This gives support to the Leftist theory that we need a new genocide to kill off toxic humanity to stop Global Warming and save Gaia again.


30 posted on 02/01/2019 8:10:14 PM PST by UnwashedPeasant (Trump is fixing the world's problems just to distract us from Russia.)
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To: EdnaMode
The climate scientists have tried to remove the Little Ice Age and the Medieval Warm Period from they record because they interrupt the flat "handle" of the hockey stick. Now they've given up trying to disprove them but use them as something else to blame us for. Where's the German propaganda minister when you need him?
31 posted on 02/01/2019 8:13:24 PM PST by KarlInOhio (Leave the job, leave the clearance. It should be the same rule for the Swamp as for everyone else.)
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To: EdnaMode

Now they will blame it on our founding fathers, and next they will want to get rid of the US constitution, because it caused climate change.


32 posted on 02/01/2019 8:14:46 PM PST by realcleanguy
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Ping.


33 posted on 02/01/2019 8:15:51 PM PST by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: EdnaMode

No ugly racist bias showing in that title. Nope, not one bit.


34 posted on 02/01/2019 8:15:53 PM PST by PTBAA
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To: EdnaMode

bs.....


35 posted on 02/01/2019 8:17:36 PM PST by cherry
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To: EdnaMode

Oh, whatever...


36 posted on 02/01/2019 8:18:47 PM PST by Crucial
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To: Dilbert San Diego; dfwgator

EVERYTHING is racist, to these rat asshats.


37 posted on 02/01/2019 8:19:03 PM PST by Mark17 (Genesis chapter 1 verse 1. In the beginning GOD.... And the rest, as they say, is HIS-story)
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To: EdnaMode

It’s the British again. Just ignore them.

They’re under the gun and in denial.

Well, not all of them.

Overall, the Brits are NOT your friends.


38 posted on 02/01/2019 8:23:52 PM PST by Concentrate (ex-texan was right and Always Right was wrong, which is why we lost the election. Podesta the molest)
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To: EdnaMode

Somewhere, there are a couple guys reading this article and really, really, REALLY wanting to know where these “researchers” get their pot.


39 posted on 02/01/2019 8:24:34 PM PST by Paul R.
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To: EdnaMode

I would add, Monty Python is very, VERY jealous of these “scientists”. ;-)


40 posted on 02/01/2019 8:26:48 PM PST by Paul R.
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