Blame it on the mammoth hunters
11 Jun 2010
It's not just for the past century that humans have been messing up the climate … it might have been going on for thousands of years.
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.
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