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Today's link is to an article suggesting that the Clovis culture exterminated enough wildlife to change the weather.
Actually today we consider the emmissions of livestock when calculating the carbon inpact of a business. Having been a farm boy for a very short while I can attest to the fact that cows do indeed exhaust a tremendous amount of hot air. I can only wonder what an elephant like a mammoth would put out in a day.
I can also imagine the world with a nice YELLOW/BROWN atmospheric layer to hold it's heat in.
The suggestion that a group of people 13000 years ago hunted every large animal out of existance suggests a huge population. I don't know that any himesites or even a single clovis bone has been found to suggest who or how many of these people there were.
Do I believe that humans are dumb enough to ruin the environment that supports them? Does a bear poop in the woods?
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Happy Blogging,
Heather
Gulf crabs anyone?? They are dying like flies from the disappearing oil here.
If you can believe that only 25% is left.
What the article does not say specifically is that the Clovis culture itself disappeared with the Younger Dryas cooling event, which adds a little punch to your point, ws.
Objectively, we have to have difficulty viewing Homo sapiens now as anything other than an infestation of the planet. An ecological epidemic. The planet has cleaned itself of these sorts of things before and righted itself. It is not as fragile as it appears in the short term.
heather---who know in the futher open pit plasic mining may be very profitable. After all when there isn't any more oil what will we do?
mission---we will never know how much damage was done.
lunch---solient green anyone?
brass---you know your timeline, very good! spicies clensing? yikes!!!
That bear line made me grin~
amanda---northern ontario bear jokes---tried and true.
susan---laugh and think is a good thing?? right??