These days there are some pretty savvy global warming researchers. Sometimes I am awestruck. The latest just in is a dandy, indeed. It seems that Zeus is the original environmentalist. Who knew? What do you mean with such blunderbus you ask? I can't make this stuff up, I retort.
"Agricultural methods of early civilizations may have altered global climate, study suggests
Massive burning of forests for agriculture thousands of years ago may have increased atmospheric carbon dioxide enough to alter global climate and usher in a warming trend that continues today, according to a new study that appears online Aug. 17 in the journal Quaternary Science Reviews."
Why does this involve purely mythological figments like Prometheus and Zeus? Stay with me here. Prometheus was worshiped as one of the older Titanic gods that rivaled Zeus. His sin was giving mankind fire. You see his brother Epimetheus must have been a fraud or have doublecrossed Prometheus. (He was the one who had the gift of foresight.) He should have known that fire would eventually doom mankind through global warming.
Now this puts Christianity in a whole new light. It turns out that all this talk about the meek inheriting the earth is hokum. They are for the big multinational polluters in reality. Bring back Zeus, bring back Gaia. Io Pan, io pan! Yo' mama. Big mama.
Eratosthenes first measured the circumference of the earth from the shadows cast by the sun. Today, humanity's fitness to survive will be measured by our ability to conquer that same thermonuclear fusion that casts those shadows. Thus, Prometheus will truly be unbound.
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Monday, August 17, 2009
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ReplyDeleteRuddiman is in fact blaming Promethus for global warming.
Ruddiman's first paper claiming that early settlers in North America
had created a climate problem by burning wood and he went as far
as to claim that this burning of wood kept the setlers from suffering
from the worst cold period of the Little Ice Age. This is treated by
reasonible climate researchers as a joke and got a really good laugh
out of it.
I wrote a box that accompanied an interview with climate Skeptic Tim
Patterson.
William F. Ruddiman of the University of Virginia
argues that man-made global warming began thousands of
years ago, as a result of the production of CO@i2
caused by the discovery of agriculture and subsequent
technological innovations in the practice of farming
(``The Anthropogenic Greenhouse Era Began Thousands of
Years Ago,'' {Climatic Change}, December 2003). He
claims that the other main source of CO@i2 was the
cutting of forests and burning of wood and peat to
heat homes in Eurasia and North America, which he
maintains is why glaciers didn't advance further south
from the Arctic, as they did in previous glacial
advances. Ruddiman bases this bizarre hypothesis on
fraudulent ice core data and computer modeling of the
extent of deforestation in Europe and North America
over the past 8,000 years.
b~~~~Ruddiman is a neo-malthusian and a follower of
``population bomb'' hoaxster Paul Ehrlich (see ``Where
the Global Warming Hoax Was Born,'' {EIR}, June 8,
2007). Ruddiman repeatedly asserts that man created
climate problems by developing new technologies which
caused a slight rise in CO@i2. (The amount of
emissions was barely above the level of natural
variation from outgassing from the oceans.)
b~~~~One might laugh at the notion that early
Europeans burning wood staved off the worst effects of
the last ice age--which was the response among most
scientists to Ruddiman's paper. But his more important
point is more blood-curdling: that pandemic diseases
such as the Black Death of the 14th Century cause a
decrease in CO@i2 and a decrease in temperature. In
other words, such diseases will reduce the population,
thereby creating a cooler world.