Partial jaw of a large, extinct jaguar discovered in a cave in the Ultima Esperanza region of Patagonia. [Credit: Fabiana Martin/CEHA]
Posted on 06/18/2016 2:53:34 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Partial jaw of a large, extinct jaguar discovered in a cave in the Ultima Esperanza region of Patagonia. [Credit: Fabiana Martin/CEHA]
Flood, Fire, and Famine
in the History of Civilization
by Richard Firestone,
Allen West, and
Simon Warwick-Smith
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mammoth_steppe
Cro-magnon and their SUV’s warmed the planet so much that they completely wiped out the megafauna’s biome.
I guess there’s nothing to be done but extinct ourselves.
Filet-cro-mignon was probably delicious.
Perhaps the megafauna could not shed body heat efficiently in the warming temperatures and died off.
Frazetta? Painted it like he had lived it.
Nothing like clear thinking and logic to ruin the thread...
More like the elites created an overwhelming demand for fur clothing...when there was not any real need...and no PETA to stop the ensuing massacre.
You are closer to the truth than you realize. Cold climates make mega fauna more efficient as body mass increases faster than surface area as an animal grows larger. Thus cold temperatures do not consume as much metabolic energy as a small body trying to stay warm. Blue Whales, the largest animal on earth range from the arctic to the equator. Their biggest problem is not the cold of the arctic but getting rid of body heat in the tropics.
It also makes them susceptible to the Man-Dog predator team.
Dogs track and run the prey to exhaustion, and hold them umtil the men come up and kill them with standoff weapons like spears and bows.
It is an incredibly efficient hunting machine.
Described to me by Dr. Smythe doing research on a grant from the Smithsonian, while I was in Panama.
My buddy in Basic Training could draw this stuff with an Ink Pen ... he was so Talented...
But, in today’s world of climate change funding, IF yo can link a “problem” - ANY problem, ANY symptom, ANY assumption of ANY future potential problem - to “climate change”.... you get published.
You get money.
You get a bigger budget next year.
Your school and your department head get a bigger budget next year.
Is their conclusion true? The cave bear “sweat to death” and so went extinct? That is, afterall, what they are claiming.
The giant beaver in what is now Ohio is also impressive.
Perhaps warmer temperature meant that humans were better able to survive, shorter winter starvation periods. Thus hunting more large animals who may have been having trouble with the warmer temperatures as suggested. Probably both causes and others not yet mentioned.
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