Retcon Climate Science Blames Humans For Fires 13,000 Years Ago

federalist ^ | 09/01/23 | Jeff Reynolds

[Paal Gulli]

Northern Australia has seasonal wildfires every year, without exception. There are birds there known colloquially as “fire hawks” (not a single species but several) that have learned to pick up a burning twig from the fires and carry it to somewhere where they expect their prey might be hiding in the (non-burning) underbrush, and drop it there to try to flush out their prey.

If birds can figure out this trick, it stands to reason ancient man at least had the ability to do the same.

[ThanhPhero]

Humans were burning off the forests and prairies every couple of years in the Americas before the arrival of the Europeans. In North eastern N AM part of the reason was to keep the forest floor clear for buffalo of which there was a large non plains population then. They burned the prairies as an aid to better hunting as game proliferated. In the Amazon they were keeping the forest clear for travel and for better hunting.

[Hiddigeigei]

"Humans are doomed to repeat burning of their surrounding environment every thirteen thousand years."
LOL! When the white Americans first entered the Shenandoah Valley, it was largely devoid of trees because the native Americans repeatedly burned it to make a prairie environment better suited for large game hunting. I suspect the same thing was occurring in the prairies in the West.

[markman46]

this from the article:

“According to the report, the authors of the study used a computer model — “similar to the ones that forecast trends in the stock market” — to determine humanity’s role in the fires 13,000 years ago. They allegedly found humans to be the “primary drivers” — both by direct ignition (i.e. campfires that got out of control, and other causes), and by overhunting herbivores, which led to underbrush growth that became fuel for wildfires.”

ummm using a computer model eh.. thats the ticket

[nicollo]

I saw somewhere a theory that blamed the European medieval warm period on eastern North American forest burns.

[ThanhPhero]

The famine in, I believe the 6th? century with a year of no summer and a dim sun for as much as three years has been attribute to a major volcano. The undersea volcano of last year near Tonga is blamed by some vulcanologists for the long heat wave in the northern hemisphere, both from the tremendous amounts of water it put into the stratosphere which is mostly still there and the disturbance of the jet stream-El Nin7o

[ckilmer]

the big event of 12000 years ago that caused the skies to darken and the temperatures to fall across the north is called the younger dryas. It’s generally thought that a comet strike caused that event. The comet was orders of magnitude bigger than the event at Tunguska that leveled 100’sof square miles of trees in Siberia about 1905