Thursday, May 12, 2005

Too many Indians...

Another post saying stupid humans killed the mastadons 12 000 years ago.
Hello: That was about the same time the glaciers melted...maybe it was climate change...
Oh no, if you blamed the climate change 12000 years ago, you couldn't blame Bush today for "climate change" now...
So it's all the Indians fault for wiping out the mastadon and sabre tooth tigers. BAAAD CHIPPEWA....BAAD Dakotas....

One reason I am skeptical is this line:
From a scientific perspective, Pleistocene Park is important because it directly tests the role of large herbivores in creating and maintaining grassland ecosystems, something that can only be surmised but not proven from the paleorecord," he said
Translation: SEND MONEY
And there is a good argument that the huge bison herds and middle western grasslands were established only after the depopulation of the mound building Mississippian culture of the lower midwest...as a result of depopulation (due to climate change before Colombus and smallpox after Colombus) the buffalo multiplied, ate seedling trees (which were not as common due to climate change), and voila, open prarie...

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