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   Oh so rich & successful JTEM to All   
   Re: Ancient Farmers Profoundly Changed O   
   10 Sep 18 14:17:28   
   
   From: jtem01@gmail.com   
      
   Oh, roughly 3 million years ago the Isthmus of   
   Panama was fully formed. Some claim it was there   
   even tens of millions of years earlier, but the   
   fact is that marine biologists and study both   
   sides and date when the flow between the two   
   oceans finally stopped around 3 million years ago.   
      
   Anyhow, the formation of the Isthmus of panama   
   changed the currents. It's the ocean currents   
   which primarily circulate the energy from the sun,   
   and when the Isthmus formed it created cold spots,   
   what we call "Glaciers." This in turn sparked the   
   Quaternary Period, which the earth is now in, which   
   is in effect an ice age. The planet is cycling   
   between lengthy periods of glaciation colloquially   
   known as "Ice Age" and much briefer warm periods   
   called "Interglacials."   
      
   The point is, the climate has been in a constant   
   state of change this last, oh, 2.6 million years   
   or more. It's easy to find evidence of these   
   changes, many of them do coincide with points in   
   human development, but the claim that humans   
   caused them rather than benefited (or even suffered)   
   from them is spurious at best... unscientific bunk.   
      
   Such studies use the present interglacial as a   
   model for the present interglacial. In other words,   
   they study the present interglacial and then use   
   THAT data to determine what this interglacial is   
   supposed to look like. Which is stupid. If you want   
   to know what an interglacial WITHOUT human agriculture   
   or industry looks like, look to the previous   
   interglacial... and the previous interglacial was   
   warmer.   
      
   Hmmm... if you compared this present interglacial with   
   the last one -- the one WITHOUT civilization, human   
   industry & agriculture -- the planet was warmer. One   
   might even conclude that humans are responsible for   
   COOLING the climate.   
      
   Now the opposite of science looks at an overall cool   
   interglacial, currently off peak from it's previous   
   high temperatures, and concludes it's hot. This is   
   known as "Stupidity."   
      
   Actually, it's all propaganda.   
      
   It's not an accident. Nobody sneezed and "Accidentally"   
   replaced a comparison with the last interglacial with   
   a comparison of this interglacial with itself.   
      
   "Lies are not random."   
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
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