CNN (the Comedy News Network) reported that researchers from
University College (twice as dumb?) in London published a paper theorizing that
“The Little Ice Age” was brought about by the dramatic decrease in the
population of Native Americans in the 15th and 16th
centuries. The “researchers” say that the death of so many indigenous people at
the hands of European settlers caused the lands they had been tilling to be
reforested, with the resulting increase in trees and vegetation leading to
dramatically less CO2 being released into the atmosphere. This change in carbon
levels was enough to cool the Earth by 1610, according to the study.
The
study estimates that 56 million indigenous people were killed over the
course of about 100 years during the period leading up to The Little Ice Age.
It also claims that an area the size of France was reforested as a
result. UCL Geography Professor Mark Maslin, one of the study’s co-authors,
stated: “CO2 and climate had been relatively stable until this point. So, this
is the first major change we see in the Earth’s greenhouse gases.”
This is
what is known, in scientific terms, as “a giant load of fetid crap.” First of
all, there may not have even been 56
million Native Americans alive before Columbus arrived in 1492, immediately and
single-handedly despoiling this Indigenous Utopia. (Nearly all of the Native
Americans that did sadly perish were killed by European diseases to which they
had no immunity, not as a result of “genocide” as the paper intimates). No one
really knows how many there were. To say that estimates vary wildly is an
understatement. All the Indians didn’t just fall dead the moment Columbus
stepped off the boat. These deaths occurred over the course of more than a
century. Secondly, how many of those that died were tilling the land? And how
fast do the study’s authors think farmland turns into forest? Even if an area
the size of France somehow instantaneously reforested itself ala a giant,
deranged Chia pet, that would have no measurable effect on the temperature of
the planet as a whole.
Professor
Maslin asserted that “CO2 and climate had been relatively stable until this
point. So, this is the first major change we see in the Earth’s greenhouse gases”
or climate? That is laughable on its face. There have been wild fluctuations in
the planet’s climate for hundreds of thousands of years and more. Hence the
alternating cycle of ice ages and warm periods. There have been times of
greatly increased volcanic activity, leading to the atmosphere being loaded up
with greenhouse gases. To say that the “first major change” in greenhouse gases
we noticed was a decrease in them
after Europeans arrived in America is preposterous and counter-intuitive to
global warming alarmist’s own argument. In other words, it’s bullshit. It’s the
first major change you wanted to see
and acknowledge…for this study.
Prior
to this groundbreaking “study,” most scientists attributed the change in
temperature during the 1600s to natural forces. Thankfully, we now are educated
enough to realize that only unnatural
man can cause climatic change. But, if we are an unnatural force, how did
we—naturally—arise from nature? I mean, we know
we weren’t put here by God, by God!
So,
DFLers, if getting rid of tilled land will cool the Earth down and arrest or
reverse global warming, I guess we just need all the farmers to go the way of
the early Native Americans. Right?
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