[ExI] A solution to global warming has been found, and its genocide.

john clark jonkc at bellsouth.net
Thu Nov 17 16:47:24 UTC 2011


>From Antarctic ice cores we know that between 1525 and 1600 the amount of the greenhouse gas CO2 in the atmosphere suddenly decreased between 6 and 10 parts per million; this period corresponds to the beginning of the "Little Ice Age" which lasted until about 1860. Richard Nevle suggested on October 11 at the Geological Society of America annual meeting that the CO2 decrease was caused by genocide in the Americas. Before Columbus there were between 40 and 100 million people in the Americas and far from being wise stewards of the land as depicted in modern myth they routinely engaged in massive deforestation to plant crops. By 1540 90% of the native population was dead, so the forests started to come back in a big way, Nevle estimates that the new trees soaked up between 2 and 17 billion tons of CO2. Its interesting that the Little Ice age finally ended about the time the Industrial Revolution started to kick up a lot of CO2 into the air.

 John K Clark


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