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Humans Implicated in Africa's Deforestation 3,000 Years Ago
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| February 11, 2012
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Posted on 07/08/2025 6:44:20 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv
African villagers driving SUVs, 3000 years ago.
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posted on
07/08/2025 9:35:50 AM PDT
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JRios1968
(Spork weasel!!! - Ralph, as quoted by Roscoe Karns)
To: faucetman
Let me guess... A significant lack of RAIN Implicated in Africa’s Deforestation 3,000 Years Ago.No, CLIMATE CHANGE!
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posted on
07/08/2025 9:36:58 AM PDT
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JRios1968
(Spork weasel!!! - Ralph, as quoted by Roscoe Karns)
To: FlingWingFlyer
Exactly what percolated in my mind. By removing trees they contributed to global warming also Less O2 production. Releasing CO2 into the atmosphere when burning. Horrors.
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posted on
07/08/2025 12:15:26 PM PDT
by
Getready
(Wisdom is more valuable than gold and harder to find. )
To: SunkenCiv
Paging Greta Thunberg. How dare you!
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posted on
07/08/2025 12:23:49 PM PDT
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central_va
(The I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
To: piasa
Like the Great Plains during the dust bowl, due to the almost complete destruction of the deep-rooted prairie grass for farming in a region with very few trees.
I would propose the destruction of the deep rooted prairie grass might have happened even if there was no farming.
It was a multiple year drought.
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posted on
07/08/2025 12:40:18 PM PDT
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PeterPrinciple
(Thinking Caps are no longer being issued, but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere)
To: central_va
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posted on
07/08/2025 12:40:45 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(The moron troll Ted Holden believes that humans originated on Ganymede.)
To: SunkenCiv
It seems obvious to me-and I don’t play a scientist on TV-more humans moving to the area cut down more trees to build shelters, fuel fires for cooking, smelting and other daily uses of wood, drought lasting several years-and humans not smart enough to know that trees don’t grow fast or well in a drought-and not at all when an area is clear-cut. A perfect storm that has taken place before in other areas of the world and still does wherever really clueless people live...
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posted on
07/08/2025 1:38:05 PM PDT
by
Texan5
("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line"... )
To: PeterPrinciple
The prairie grass in that region was tilled under years before the dust bowl drought began, not during and after.
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posted on
07/23/2025 3:12:57 AM PDT
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piasa
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To: piasa
The prairie grass in that region was tilled under years before the dust bowl drought began, not during and after.
My point to you is this can happen even if there was no tillage. Climate is complex, it is natural. But the history books have convinced you it is just that ONE THING that was the problem.
We still have soil erosion even after all the federal programs to stop it. I am not even sure we have reduced total erosion. We just changed it. Water and dirt move down hill, you can’t stop that.
We have floods even after all our man made efforts to stop it.
Now, I am not saying that we don’t do anything, just that we need to understand the bigger picture.
The current USDA gov’t funded fashion is cover crops. The extra tillage in the fall for this causes just as much erosion as it’s potential savings.
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07/23/2025 7:18:05 AM PDT
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PeterPrinciple
(Thinking Caps are no longer being issued, but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere)
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