Saturday, August 22, 2009

Humans Might Have Triggered Climate Change Earlier Than Previously Thought...

Some new findings concerning climate change are making the rounds in Science-Land. It seems humanity cannot stop making the same mistakes of the past. It has always been assumed that early man could not have influenced his environment on a large scale, this is now known to be false. Early man's ventures into agriculture permanently changed the environment, with such practices as large scale slash and burn farming, and decimation of entire forested regions.

It is now becoming increasingly accepted by the scientific community that these early farming practices produced enough Carbon Monoxide to tip the climate scale into the current warming trend we are now experiencing.

Read more about this at The Examiner...

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