[SteamShovel]

the radical idea that human-induced climate change began not 200 years ago, but thousands of years ago with the onset of large-scale agriculture in Asia and extensive deforestation in Europe

Suggesting.....

.....It is NOT caused by CO2

.....It is NOT the Americans fault

.....There is nothing we can do about it short of 100% homicide.

These people are forced off their story by cooling for 10 years (a a plateau or trend against their previous theory) and now their new theories don't mesh with the old ones.

[Brad from Tennessee]

Dr. Roger A. Pielke Sr. at University of Colorado ( http://pielkeclimatesci.wordpress.com/ ) has always pointed to an accumulation of local “land use changes”—turning forests into cropland, turning cropland into residential neighborhoods, draining swamps, diverting rivers and irrigating arrid areas, etc.—as the reason behind any man-made climate change. He says these surface alterations, which have gone on for thousands of years, are more profound than mankind's emissions.

If Pielke is correct the U.S. and other developed societies began moving toward countering these effects a century ago with the creation of parks, sanctuaries and reservations, reforestation, urban landscaping, restoration of water sheds and estuaries, improved farming methods, etc.