Climate impact of Europeans killing native Americans
February 1, 2019 at 10:11 am
(This post was last modified: February 1, 2019 at 10:13 am by Anomalocaris.)
apparently the little ice age, a period of abnormal global climate cooling that occurred from around 1600-1800, has been traced to reversion of vast areas of formerly cultivated lands in the America back to forests, which resulted in sufficient increase in total plant mass and plant uptake of CO2 from the atmosphere to appreciably reduce atmosphere green house effect.
The drastic loss of area under cultivation in America was traced to well over half of all pre-Colombian Native American population dying in the aftermath of European rediscovery and conquest of the americas.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/ar...18307261#!
So perhaps an effective way to combat current anthropogenic global warming would be to find ways to dramatically expand global forest cover.
The drastic loss of area under cultivation in America was traced to well over half of all pre-Colombian Native American population dying in the aftermath of European rediscovery and conquest of the americas.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/ar...18307261#!
So perhaps an effective way to combat current anthropogenic global warming would be to find ways to dramatically expand global forest cover.
