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CNN: White People caused climate change by killing Native Americans
Posted on 2/1/19 at 6:11 pm
Posted on 2/1/19 at 6:11 pm
CNN
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When Europeans arrived in the Americas, they caused so much death and disease that it changed the global climate, a new study finds.
European settlers killed 56 million indigenous people over about 100 years in South, Central and North America, causing large swaths of farmland to be abandoned and reforested, researchers at University College London, or UCL, estimate. The increase in trees and vegetation across an area the size of France resulted in a massive decrease in carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere, according to the study.
Carbon levels changed enough to cool the Earth by 1610, researchers found. Columbus arrived in 1492,
"CO2 and climate had been relatively stable until this point," said UCL Geography Professor Mark Maslin, one of the study's co-authors. "So, this is the first major change we see in the Earth's greenhouse gases."
This post was edited on 2/1/19 at 7:40 pm
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Posted on 2/1/19 at 6:13 pm to NYNolaguy1
Genghis Khan was the best eco-warrior to ever exist. Killing of 5-10% of the global population was the greenest act of violence in history.
Posted on 2/1/19 at 6:13 pm to NYNolaguy1
What else did the white man do wrong?
Posted on 2/1/19 at 6:14 pm to NYNolaguy1
Posted on 2/1/19 at 6:22 pm to HempHead
Someone seriously made this up for clicks. A bored op ed writer just crapped this out of their brain and ran with it.
Posted on 2/1/19 at 6:22 pm to NYNolaguy1
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European settlers killed 56 million indigenous people over about 100 years in South, Central and North America,
I thought that many less people was good for the "climate"?
Posted on 2/1/19 at 6:25 pm to AggieDub14
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What else did the white man do wrong?
killed almost all the buffalo.
Posted on 2/1/19 at 6:25 pm to NYNolaguy1
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The increase in trees and vegetation across an area the size of France resulted in a massive decrease in carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere, according to the study.
So, if they increased the forestation and decreased the CO2 levels(one of the supposed drivers of AGW), how is that CAUSING global warming, if they actually reduced it?
Posted on 2/1/19 at 6:26 pm to Dale51
What effect did Hitler have on the climate?
Posted on 2/1/19 at 6:26 pm to NYNolaguy1
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South, Central and North America, causing large swaths of farmland to be abandoned and reforested,
Weren’t those hunter gatherer peoples? That seems like an incredible fact to just omit.
This post was edited on 2/1/19 at 6:29 pm
Posted on 2/1/19 at 6:26 pm to TigerCoon
Well that actually did happen. And we were kinda dicks about it. We killed them so the natives would leave to find other animals to hunt elsewhere.
Posted on 2/1/19 at 6:27 pm to NYNolaguy1
Pretty sure that Hanibal started it, when he brought all of those shitting elephants into Europe. The methane must have been devastating.
Posted on 2/1/19 at 6:28 pm to TidenUP
I read the article... they caused a period of cooling Butttttt the goods they ‘stole’ from the natives and shipped back to Europe enabled the Industrial Revolution so that’s how they destroyed the planet
Posted on 2/1/19 at 6:33 pm to auggie
So the Indians cut down trees to farm, and when the Indians died a forest the size of France grew, and this caused Global warming.
Fine, let's cut down the rainforest and fix things.
Fine, let's cut down the rainforest and fix things.
Posted on 2/1/19 at 6:34 pm to TigerCoon
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killed almost all the buffalo.
The Indians did more than their part. Drove whole herds off of cliffs and harvested what they could before the smell got too bad and then let the rest rot.
Posted on 2/1/19 at 6:36 pm to Dale51
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The Indians did more than their part. Drove whole herds off of cliffs and harvested what they could before the smell got too bad and then let the rest rot.
I was trying to sound ridiculous. I'm nowhere near as funny as I think I am.
Posted on 2/1/19 at 6:36 pm to NYNolaguy1
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European settlers killed 56 million indigenous people over about 100 years in South, Central and North America
Posted on 2/1/19 at 6:36 pm to TigerCoon
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What else did the white man do wrong?
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killed almost all the buffalo.
Another benefit for the Environment
The North American Bison were/are ruminants. Killing off millions of them theoretically would have helped cool the earth because they produce a lot of methane gas.
Methane produces 30+ times the green house effect as CO2
Posted on 2/1/19 at 6:38 pm to Loserman
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Methane produces 30+ times the green house effect as CO2
I had the same thought. Nutjobs wag the finger at cattle production for that reason.
Posted on 2/1/19 at 6:38 pm to NYNolaguy1
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CNN: White People caused global warming by killing Native Americans
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