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DID EARLY HUNTERS cause climate change? ?When hunters arrived in North America and drove mammoths a?

By Glenn Reynolds

DID EARLY HUNTERS cause climate change? “When hunters arrived in North America and drove mammoths and other large mammals to extinction, the methane balance of the atmosphere could have changed as a result, triggering the global cool spell that followed. The large grazing animals would have produced copious amounts of methane, a potent greenhouse gas, from their digestive systems. They vanished about 13,000 years ago.”

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on May 30, 2010 (boomark / email).