“There’s nothing else happening in the rest of the world at this time, in terms of human land use, that could explain this rapid carbon uptake,” says Jed Kaplan, an earth systems scientist at the Federal Polytechnic School of Lausanne in Switzerland.
Note the phrase "in terms of human land use." Apparently, if you start with a supposition and hunt long enough for a scenario that fits, you may just find one... (if you stretch it far enough). Michele Comitini <[email protected]> wrote: >"By sailing to the New World, Christopher Columbus and the other >explorers who followed may have set off a chain of events that cooled >Europe’s climate for centuries." > >short: http://goo.gl/Gl82A > >long: >http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/335168/title/Columbus_blamed_for_Little_Ice_Age > >mic > >
