[Red Badger]

Bushes fault?..........

[Red Badger]

GGG + AGW ping!........

[FiddlePig]

Re: Bush’s fault... yes and no, tis a variation... it’s the WHITE guy’s fault!

[knarf]

Time Out !

"Following up on their paper published in 2008, the team has now brought their findings before the Geological Society of America. The researchers say that the population decrease, which came about due to the introduction of previously unknown diseases, led to the rapid reforestation of the Americas. This led to a sudden increase in the amount of carbon dioxide being pulled from the air, which meant the atmosphere wasn’t able to hold as much heat, which led to colder air covering Europe."

CO2 keeps the earth temperate ... right?

[PGR88]

since most estimates suggest that close to 90 percent of the native peoples died or were killed after the Europeans arrived,

This is science??? This is way beyond just "curve fitting" - this is creating facts and a evidence from scratch to match a ridiculous hypothesis.

[org.whodat]

80 to 90 million people. Good one. Man that has got to be some wicked home grown shi*.

[Pietro]

Beware findings that proport man caused global climate change.

Let's see; 8 years after Columbus the temperature in Europe does a nose dive, yeah. That damn Columbus.

[oh8eleven]

... the Little Ice Age, was due to the rapid decline in native human populations shortly after early explorers arrived.
DAMN that Columbus!!!
I say we cancel the Columbus Day holiday and rededicate it to someone more worthy, like Malcolm X, or Steve Jobs or Saul Alinsky or ...

[jrd]

what about the Indians that were here burning large tracks of land to plant their crops on ...or forest fires started by lightning...

[p. henry]

Please.

Columbus arrives in 1492. The Little Ice Age begins approximately 8 years later. So, in 8 years 70 million people die and the land they previously farmed is reforested enough that it aborbs amounts of carbon which are adequately large to cool the earth and kick off the Little Ice Age.

First the alarmists try to make us believe that natural variations in gobal temperatures, like the Little Ice Age and the Medieval Warming Period either did not exist or were not truly gobal in nature. When it is shown that their methods of doing so (the Mann hockey stick and tree ring data) are rigged to arrive at the result they desire, they are now saying that, yes, the variations did exist and were global, but at least one of them (the Little Ice Age) was the result of humams causing a decrease in carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. The alarmists truly are a bunch of one trick ponies.

[frithguild]

Global cooling because the white man gave the red man blankets infected with smallpox.

[DCmarcher-976453]

This is the craziest conclusion ever made. This is a backwards step for science.

[brownsfan]

This is unbelievable. What a reach!

They’re seriously trying to say that the relatively small human population, and it’s numbers change, in the 1500s impacted the global climate?

If these guys are scientists, I fear for the future of humanity.

[Rudder]

From the reading of their methodology and then their conclusions, it appropriate to say that one is not related to the other. Their conclusions do fit, however, their agenda.

[Smokin' Joe]

Oh. The Black Death didn't have any effect? But when the Europeans (mean, nasty, European, whitemens...--/s) showed up, THEY caused the "little ice age"...by making all the indigenous folks who were living in harmony with nature (and whacking heads and chopping out hearts and burning trees) to fall over dead.

Got it.

Hmmmm.

This is so PC, what's not to like?

>Gaaaaack!

[Fiji Hill]

So to the environmentalist left, Columbus should be a hero. Thanks to Columbus, both global warming and deforestation were halted and reversed, and the “population bomb,” as Paul Ehrlich called the menace of over-population, was defused.

[Mr. K]

They are saying that the people came, the Indians all died of disease, that caused more trees to grow, which sucked up the CO2, which caused global cooling? Geez.. that's a stretch

Maybe the cooling came from the sun and THEN the people all died.

I suspect if you had a time-lapse movie of the sun it would flicker like a candle over thousands of years time.

[cuban leaf]

I burn my garbage.

[catnipman]

Sooooo, deforestation is a good thing, then?

[chesley]

Genghis Khan got a lot of credit recently for his marvelous work in combating global warming through horrendous massacres of conquered peoples.

Want to bet ol’ Chris Columbus gets any similar praise? ‘Cause I’ve got a little money to wager.

[bunkerhill7]

Johhny Appleseed caused the Little Ice Age.