Topic ID #8017 - posted 7/2/2010 4:26 AM
Jennifer Palmer
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Man-made global warming started with ancient hunters
Jennifer Palmer
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AGU Release No. 10–15
30 June 2010
WASHINGTON—Even before the dawn of agriculture, people may have caused the planet to warm up, a new study suggests.
Mammoths used to roam modern-day Russia and North America, but are now extinct—and there's evidence that around 15,000 years ago, early hunters had a hand in wiping them out. A new study, accepted for publication in Geophysical Research Letters, a journal of the American Geophysical Union (AGU), argues that this die-off had the side effect of heating up the planet.
“A lot of people still think that people are unable to affect the climate even now, even when there are more than 6 billion people,” says the lead author of the study, Chris Doughty of the Carnegie Institution for Science in Stanford, California. The new results, however, “show that even when we had populations orders of magnitude smaller than we do now, we still had a big impact.”
In the new study, Doughty, Adam Wolf, and Chris Field—all at Carnegie Institution for Science—propose a scenario to explain how hunters could have triggered global warming.
Read the rest of the article here.
30 June 2010
WASHINGTON—Even before the dawn of agriculture, people may have caused the planet to warm up, a new study suggests.
Mammoths used to roam modern-day Russia and North America, but are now extinct—and there's evidence that around 15,000 years ago, early hunters had a hand in wiping them out. A new study, accepted for publication in Geophysical Research Letters, a journal of the American Geophysical Union (AGU), argues that this die-off had the side effect of heating up the planet.
“A lot of people still think that people are unable to affect the climate even now, even when there are more than 6 billion people,” says the lead author of the study, Chris Doughty of the Carnegie Institution for Science in Stanford, California. The new results, however, “show that even when we had populations orders of magnitude smaller than we do now, we still had a big impact.”
In the new study, Doughty, Adam Wolf, and Chris Field—all at Carnegie Institution for Science—propose a scenario to explain how hunters could have triggered global warming.
Read the rest of the article here.
Post ID#17823 - replied 7/2/2010 10:02 AM
marehart
But wouldn't the Birch trees just substitute for the methane released by all the Mammoth farts?
Nice exercise, but rubish. Their calculations apparently include assumptions that over estimate the effect.
Nice exercise, but rubish. Their calculations apparently include assumptions that over estimate the effect.
Post ID#17826 - replied 7/2/2010 12:02 PM
StarRider
That may not be the silliest thing I've ever read, but it is damn close. Did our tax dollars really pay for that?
Post ID#17846 - replied 7/8/2010 7:53 AM
Frogsmom
Garbage...take nature and its processes out of the equation and one can blame everything on humans...
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