Interesting article:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4755328.stm

Jeremy
Ilminster, Somerset.

"Jeremy Handscomb" wrote in message
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Interesting article:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4755328.stm

Jeremy
Ilminster, Somerset.


Saw that yesterday. I really can't believe that a few more trees growing
again, in primarily the area of Europe which is so small when compared to
the rest of the worlds untouched forest/jungle at that present time.
The other thing is that even if some agricultural areas did return to Forest
surely that timescale of deforestation to the onset of the little ice age is
ridiculously short.
If author of the BBC Science article and Dr Van Hoofit believes that
Europe's 'little ice age' was caused by the reforestation of Europe due to
the massive loss of life caused by the Black Death.

Why then was only Europe affected did the Co only disappear in
concentrations from European sky's and leave the rest of the world
untouched -good trick that must be Gaia.
As well how come is wasn't much colder before the farming intensity was
under way , say for example when the Romans were in Britain.

Nope the fact this story was chosen to splash on the front page of the BBC
science web site with some tentative link to deforestation as being a vital
cause in AGW says more about the BBC's

"lets hate ourselves for developing farming and banishing slowly and surely
hunger, malnutrition and disease at the expense of the planet" agenda.

"Lawrence Jenkins" wrote in message
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"Jeremy Handscomb" wrote in message
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Interesting article:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4755328.stm

Saw that yesterday. I really can't believe that a few more trees growing
again, in primarily the area of Europe which is so small when compared to
the rest of the worlds untouched forest/jungle at that present time.
The other thing is that even if some agricultural areas did return to
Forest surely that timescale of deforestation to the onset of the little
ice age is ridiculously short.

The conventional wisdom has it the other way round. There was a
well-documented sharp reversal in the European climate early in
the 14th century, a reversal mirrored in east Asia where widespread
floods damaged the black rat's habitat, triggering a wave of migrations
westward across central Asia and ultimately to Europe.

Philip