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Humans are doomed to repeat burning of their surrounding environment every thirteen thousand years.
1 posted on 09/01/2023 6:35:19 AM PDT by chief lee runamok
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To: chief lee runamok

And sadly there are people who believe such BU!!SH!T!


2 posted on 09/01/2023 6:37:36 AM PDT by high info voter (Delivery )
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To: chief lee runamok

Is this an eye roll moment Yogi?

It’s always an eye roll moment Boo Boo


3 posted on 09/01/2023 6:37:58 AM PDT by xp38
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To: chief lee runamok
I thought it was the SUVs driven by the mastodons?
4 posted on 09/01/2023 6:40:38 AM PDT by kickstart ("A gun is a tool. It is only as good or as bad as the man who uses it" . Alan Ladd in 'Shane' )
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To: chief lee runamok

Lol... Obviously some woke uneducated idiot.


5 posted on 09/01/2023 6:42:44 AM PDT by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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To: chief lee runamok

Since we can’t rely on the media anymore, there’s a lot of speculation going on about the recent catastrophic fires being started by environmental nut jobs to show us how bad climate change is. I mean, wouldn’t the media tell us if they knew? Wouldn’t they?


6 posted on 09/01/2023 6:42:46 AM PDT by Spok (You can always trust your enemies to be your enemies. Your friends not so much.)
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To: chief lee runamok
Yep. Those early humans sure were a dangerous lot.


7 posted on 09/01/2023 6:50:08 AM PDT by Bounced2X (Boomer - I survived childhood with no bike helmet.)
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To: chief lee runamok

Whew! At least the article did not blame President Trump.


8 posted on 09/01/2023 6:50:33 AM PDT by Maine Mariner
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To: chief lee runamok

When the o’holy grant money is at stake, anything is fair game, including rational thought.

This is direct result of too many people gaining access to higher academic education.


9 posted on 09/01/2023 6:52:52 AM PDT by larrytown (A Cadet will not lie, cheat, steal, or tolerate those who do. Then they graduate...)
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To: chief lee runamok

And amazingly it was caucasians that started all the fires, killed themselves and then left the western hemisphere vacant for the remaining indigenous people to heal the tortured land. Not.


10 posted on 09/01/2023 7:19:14 AM PDT by glorgau
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To: chief lee runamok
But the cited study is based on megafauna evidence gathered at La Brea Tar Pits — from 13,000 years ago. According to the NYT author, scientists have “concluded that the disappearance of … large mammals in this region … was linked to rising temperatures and increased fire activity spurred by people.”

If I remember right the only thing that you get out of the tar pits is skeletons.

So, how does a credible scientist deduce from skeletons in a tar pit that those skeletons died in a forest fire or died of starvation caused by a forest fire?

And considering that most forest fires are caused by lighting strikes how could one logically deduce that forest fires 12,000 years ago was caused by humans?

This is not research it is fairy tales.

14 posted on 09/01/2023 7:36:16 AM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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To: chief lee runamok

Ah, yes, the days before lightning.


16 posted on 09/01/2023 8:09:26 AM PDT by fruser1
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To: chief lee runamok

Its the only way they can improve the GloBULL Warming gambit by saying that it started much longer ago than we previously thot!


18 posted on 09/01/2023 8:48:14 AM PDT by Delta 21 (Sufferings are the guardrails on the road to Heaven.)
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To: chief lee runamok

“peer-reviewed study in a prestigious academic journal”

Instead of adding credibility to the “research” this only shows how bankrupt and political our academic field is.


19 posted on 09/01/2023 9:16:36 AM PDT by falcon99 ( )
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To: chief lee runamok

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.


21 posted on 09/01/2023 10:11:29 AM PDT by Paal Gulli
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To: chief lee runamok

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.


22 posted on 09/01/2023 2:18:26 PM PDT by ThanhPhero
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To: chief lee runamok
"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.
23 posted on 09/01/2023 2:43:09 PM PDT by Hiddigeigei ("Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish," said Dionysus - Euripides)
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To: chief lee runamok

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


24 posted on 09/01/2023 5:45:27 PM PDT by markman46 (engage brain before using keyboard!!!)
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