Death and the Little Ice Age
2019-01-31 17:12:25.588645+01 by Dan Lyke 2 comments
Interesting theory: 'American Dying' cooled Earth's climate:
"The Great Dying of the Indigenous Peoples of the Americas led to the abandonment of enough cleared land that the resulting terrestrial carbon uptake had a detectable impact on both atmospheric CO₂ and global surface air temperatures," Alexander Koch and colleagues write in their paper published in Quaternary Science Reviews.