From: buzzard554@fastmail.co.uk   
      
   On 10/4/2018 2:40 PM, reader wrote:   
   >>>>> Obviously you did not read past the headline.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> The factor in question was the careful use of 'pastoralism' with   
   >>>>> domesticated animals to retard the desert.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Again, you are comparing the Holocene to the Holocene   
   >>>> and then pretending that there's a difference.   
   >>>   
   >>> Smile, then you contend those cultural features were present in the   
   >>> previous cycle?  That is the only way to compare what you suggest.   
   >>>   
   >>>> The only way to judge if humans altered the time table   
   >>>> to the formation of the Sahara would be to look to the   
   >>>> previous interglacial and try to measure the speed of   
   >>>> such changes.   
   >>>   
   >>> As above, plus the added info where the previous cycle was used to see the   
   >>> expected difference the cultural features might make:   
   >>   
   >> That only works if you *know* that no other factors affecting the   
   >> climate were different. In fact, quite the reverse is true. To make   
   >> matters worse it is probably correct that we have not the least idea   
   >> of what all the factors are.   
   >>>   
   >>> https://phys.org/news/2018-10-humans-onset-sahara-years.html   
   >   
   > Oh gloom and doom, shut down all the departments of science; nothing can be   
   > known because all factors might not be yet identified.  All is lost, all is   
   > lost; science is a fraud.   
   >   
   Yes, that does seem to be the attitude of some posts.  Cranks?  Effing   
   turners!   
      
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