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Hitler and global warming

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• Posted by Rob (#1) on February 27, 2006 17:43 CET

We need something better than Kyoto, screamed scientists. Well, Dutch research of the Little Ice Age might just provide the answer:

Europe's "Little Ice Age" may have been triggered by the 14th Century Black Death plague, according to a new study.

Pollen and leaf data support the idea that millions of trees sprang up on abandoned farmland, soaking up carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.

This would have had the effect of cooling the climate, a team from Utrecht University, Netherlands, says.

The study also suggests that deforestation and overpopulation pose a bigger threat than CO2-levels. After all, it was the extinction of a third of Europe's pre-industrialised population that might have triggered a little ice age.

Maybe Hitler was just trying to help mother nature.

(Filed under Anglosphere as it's home of the two major opponents of Kyoto, the United States and Australia.)

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