Global warming caused by mammoth extinction

Cosmos ^ | Friday, 9 July 2010 | Holly Hight

[Mojave]

WASHINGTON, D.C.: Even as far back as 15,000 years, humans may have had a hand in global warming, scientists suggesting that ancient hunters may have hastened the extinction of mammoths, which used to thrive in Siberia and North America.

According to a new study in the American Geophysical Union (AGU), the resulting change in vegetation may have contributed to heating by as much as 0.1 degrees Celsius (or 0.18 degrees Fahrenheit), which doesn't seem like much, but it could've had a huge impact.

"By showing that the disappearance of the mammoths probably impacted climate, we get to an interesting if-then situation. If humans contributed to the disappearance of the mammoth, they impacted the climate in doing that," said a researcher on the study, Chris Field of the Carnegie Institution for Science in Stanford, California.

[FormerACLUmember]

Complete Bulls**t then.

Complete Bulls**t now.

[MotorCityBuck]

For God’s sake, get these people help!

[Desdemona]

Ice ages...yeah, never mind.

[DTogo]

Fred Flintstone on Mammoth hunting trips in Barney’s SUV...

[VeniVidiVici]

Wow! Imagine what we had to do to get rid of all of those dinosaurs!!

[Grizzled Bear]

Hunting Mammoths did not cause global warming.

I caused global warming.

When I was but a small child, in the dead of winter, I stood with the door open. My mother said, “Shut that door! Are you trying to heat the outside?”

I confess, I held the door open for at least 30 seconds longer in a selfish attempt to heat the outdoors.

I’m so ashamed.

[stylin19a]

frozen mammoth found

hmmmm....

[kinghorse]

Friction creates global warming. Eliminate friction, eliminate warming. And you're welcome.

[HereInTheHeartland]

There is no dividing line between satire and leftist political thought anymore. The Onion has ceased to be amusing.
Utter insanity.
NASA has morphed into a Muslim self esteem group, and now this kind of thing.
Insanity.

[Hexenhammer]

uh huh, right. not that we’re on the decline world wide long before humans covered most of the earth, but ok, sure, we’ll believe you this time.

or not.

hide the decline.

[alecqss]

I think this magazine is an elaborate satire.
Anyways, my bet is on mammoth farting, so to say.

[Fresh Wind]

According to a new study in the American Geophysical Union...

Research grant running out. Must shake the money tree some more...

[dfwgator]

"See, I told you so."

[MotorCityBuck]

Like a bad stand up routine. Truly, and desperately sad.

[TASMANIANRED]

They froze with food still in their mouths.

[Flag_This]

Those ancient humans were B-U-S-Y! They apparently hunted all these animals to extinction: mammoth, mastodon, giant cave bear, short-faced bear, giant bison, giant ground sloth, north american horse, north american camel, giant beaver, stag-moose, dire wolf and american lion. And that's just a partial list!

Fortunately, their descendants learned from this Pleistocene holocaust and they came to live in perfect harmony with nature - as depicted in "Dances with Wolves."

[randog]

When are these guys gonna tackle the tough questions, like “What if a frog had a square @ss”....?

[Mojave]

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[MotorCityBuck]

Ahh, I never thought of that.