We just never learn from the past
Some of the first people in North America lived through extreme climate change at the peak of the last ice age, a new study suggests.
Researchers studied ancient pollen locked in rocks at White Sands National Park in New Mexico, which houses an archaeological site thought to contain the oldest human footprints in the Americas. The researchers previously dated those footprints to around 21,000 to 23,000 years ago, though their age is the subject of some scientific debate because they are significantly older than other Indigenous sites in the Americas.
The new findings, published Wednesday (Oct. 14) in the journal Science Advances, suggest that humans kept using White Sands after temperatures warmed and thus saw the landscape undergo rapid changes during the coldest era of the last ice age, known as the Last Glacial Maximum (26,500 to 19,000 years ago).
“It’s remarkable that early humans in the region were real-time witnesses to a rapidly changing environment discernible within a human lifetime — that is really food for thought,” study co-author Kathleen Springer, a research geologist at the U.S. Geological Survey, said in a statement.
So, um, what caused that to happen? And, let’s be real, it was global warming, with natural processes, mostly caused by the Sun, to move the Earth from a glacial age to an interglacial. They weren’t using fossil fuels or any of the Other Things Warmists Blame for their rebranded anthropogenic global warming.
It’s actually a fascinating article, once you get by thinking about what caused it and why is today different. Especially since the article forgot the normal “and this is why Modern Humans should be concerned over what we are doing.”
