Beam me to Planet Gore !
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.
(Excerpt) Read more at cosmosmagazine.com ...
Actually global warming, to the extent it exists, is caused by the “Smart Growth” movement advocated by fashionable intellectuals and environmental utopians who want all new building crammed together in gigantic enclaves to help cut down on automobile travel,allow people to walk wherever they want to go, and kill “suburban sprawl” - this creates major thermal masses which trap and hold heat, raising the temperature within and nearby by several degrees at least - during our recent heat waves in this area, weather experts issued heat warnings for Philadelphia and its immediate surroundings, but not for those of us in a radius more than twenty miles away - silly environmentalists are going to kill us all with their save the world schemes......
"...and don't you forget my unicorn..."
I know, I’ve read it. Still - names, titles, motto, content of articles - all of it reads as a satire. I envy the people of the next century - they will read it and have so much fun - all without having to pay for that “science” through the nose.
I am more and more convinced over the years that PHD is an acronym for “piled higher and deeper”
“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,”
And since GOD created man, then GOD caused global warming.
The dire wolf ate your dang unicorn.
Once over the mountain of “if” the “then” is a just a stroll down hill.
I thought that it was Bush’s fault?
I love that era. I always fantasize about finding a Clovis point. Wouldn't that be cool? I collect arrow heads, but these babes are out of my price range under the Obama economic austerity regime.
Surely something is amiss... I wonder what ...
Where is even the most rudimentary evidence that human hunting activity had anything to do with the extinction of mammoths? It would be highly unlikely.
Ancient man must have been like ants covering the whole of the earth.
Indeed. They were also very fat from eating every animal they found and so, eventually, became too fat to hunt any longer, which lead to the extinction of ancient man.
This extinction was aided by the dearth of very large game, and lead to the inevitable cannibalism, which in turn left few bones of ancient man to be found by industrious PHD types, which in turn lead to a huge rise in speculative activities by said PHD types in search of grant money so they too could become very fat.
Added Todd Surovell, an anthropologist
Where to begin?
Well, my neighbor, who is a janitor, explained than to reduce CO2 and increase O2, we need to plant trees.
The guy at the gas station said all the mammoths were eaten by the clovis People.
This is one reason unemployment will remain high. Many jobs are still held by endangered idiots.
Damn! What are we waiting on?? Cut down all them damn trees and plant grassland. Get everyone down to the Amazon with a chain saw. I’m tired of this hot weather.
It never ceases to amaze me what BS the human mind can dream up with a little mistaken “cause and effect!”
Thought up by a retarded. ultra liberal, democrat!
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