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To: blam
Darn good post, blam!

I was especially taken with the recitation of all the currently extinct, animals that existed only 13,000 years ago. Some of the "sky is falling" ecologists, the "endangered species" charlatans and especially the "kill your SUV" climatologists should take note of this and (if it's not asking too much) learn from it.

From the article:
saber-toothed tigers, dire wolves, giant Columbian mammoths (14 feet at the shoulder, weighing 8 to 10 tons), giant horses, camels, giant ground sloths and big turtles.

Were these extinctions caused by...
Natural climate fluctuations?
Natural selection?
Natural predation?
Natural disease?
Their "time" had just come and gone?
Over hunting by the indigenous peoples of America, who we are told did not selfishly ravage the environment and were more in tune with nature?

And about climate...
Wells dug by Clovis Man have been found at Blackwater Draw that indicate climate fluctuations and variable water tables in one of the most stable spring-fed lakes of the past.

Imagine that, climate can (and does) change all on its own without any help from man! Will wonders never cease?

--Boot Hill

11 posted on 02/12/2004 5:49:34 PM PST by Boot Hill
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To: Boot Hill
"Over hunting by the indigenous peoples of America."

Not IMO.

12 posted on 02/12/2004 8:49:21 PM PST by blam
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To: Boot Hill
Imagine that, climate can (and does) change all on its own without any help from man! Will wonders never cease?

I think you are misinterpreting the data. The climate change data obviously shows that clovis man drove SUV's. We'll find them eventually.

22 posted on 02/13/2004 4:59:39 AM PST by John O (God Save America (Please))
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