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Global warming caused by mammoth extinction
Cosmos ^
| Friday, 9 July 2010
| Holly Hight
Posted on 07/08/2010 8:55:31 PM PDT by 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.
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posted on
07/08/2010 8:55:34 PM PDT
by
Mojave
To: Mojave
Complete Bulls**t then.
Complete Bulls**t now.
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posted on
07/08/2010 8:56:58 PM PDT
by
FormerACLUmember
("Subtlety is not going to win this fight": NJ Governor Chris Christie)
To: Mojave
For God’s sake, get these people help!
3
posted on
07/08/2010 8:57:21 PM PDT
by
MotorCityBuck
( Keep the change, you filthy animal!)
To: Mojave
Ice ages...yeah, never mind.
4
posted on
07/08/2010 8:58:51 PM PDT
by
Desdemona
(VIVA ESPANA!)
To: Mojave
Fred Flintstone on Mammoth hunting trips in Barney’s SUV...
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posted on
07/08/2010 9:00:11 PM PDT
by
DTogo
(High time to bring back the Sons of Liberty !!)
To: Mojave
Wow! Imagine what we had to do to get rid of all of those dinosaurs!!
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posted on
07/08/2010 9:01:04 PM PDT
by
VeniVidiVici
(I Don't Want Hussein to Kick Ass. I WANT HIM TO GET OFF HIS ASS!!!!)
To: Mojave; Darksheare; Slings and Arrows
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.
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posted on
07/08/2010 9:01:46 PM PDT
by
Grizzled Bear
(Does not play well with others)
To: Mojave
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posted on
07/08/2010 9:02:05 PM PDT
by
stylin19a
(Never buy a putter until you first get a chance to throw it)
To: Mojave
Friction creates global warming. Eliminate friction, eliminate warming. And you're welcome.
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posted on
07/08/2010 9:02:26 PM PDT
by
kinghorse
(We kowtow to the Arab because he has all our cash)
To: Mojave
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.
10
posted on
07/08/2010 9:02:52 PM PDT
by
HereInTheHeartland
("And for that matter what do we REALLY know about HereInTheHeartland?")
To: Mojave
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.
11
posted on
07/08/2010 9:04:08 PM PDT
by
Hexenhammer
(sic semper tyrannis)
To: MotorCityBuck
I think this magazine is an elaborate satire.
Anyways, my bet is on mammoth farting, so to say.
12
posted on
07/08/2010 9:04:41 PM PDT
by
alecqss
To: Mojave
According to a new study in the American Geophysical Union...Research grant running out. Must shake the money tree some more...
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posted on
07/08/2010 9:04:47 PM PDT
by
Fresh Wind
(For the first time in half a century, there is no former KKK member in the US Senate.)
To: Desdemona
![](http://www.wallpaperez.net/wallpaper/movie/m/Ice-Age-3-Dawn-of-the-Dinosaurs-1741.jpg)
"See, I told you so."
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posted on
07/08/2010 9:05:32 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: HereInTheHeartland
Like a bad stand up routine. Truly, and desperately sad.
15
posted on
07/08/2010 9:06:24 PM PDT
by
MotorCityBuck
( Keep the change, you filthy animal!)
To: Mojave
They froze with food still in their mouths.
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posted on
07/08/2010 9:06:37 PM PDT
by
TASMANIANRED
(Liberals are educated above their level of intelligence.. Thanks Sr. Angelica)
To: Mojave
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."
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posted on
07/08/2010 9:07:19 PM PDT
by
Flag_This
(Real presidents don't bow.)
To: Mojave
When are these guys gonna tackle the tough questions, like “What if a frog had a square @ss”....?
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posted on
07/08/2010 9:08:33 PM PDT
by
randog
(Tap into America!)
To: alecqss
“COSMOS is the brainchild of Wilson da Silva, a former ABC TV science reporter and past president of the World Federation of Science Journalists. It is backed by an Editorial Advisory Board that includes Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin, ABC Radios Robyn Williams, and is chaired by Dr Alan Finkel, the neuroscientist and philanthropist who is the Chancellor of Monash University in Melbourne.”
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posted on
07/08/2010 9:08:47 PM PDT
by
Mojave
(Ignorant and stoned - Obama's natural constituency.)
To: alecqss
Ahh, I never thought of that.
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posted on
07/08/2010 9:09:03 PM PDT
by
MotorCityBuck
( Keep the change, you filthy animal!)
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