New Study: Large Scale Agriculture Began Global Warming 5000 Years Ago, Not Industrialization
Contrary to popular opinion that global warming began with the Industrial Revolution, a new study by University of Wisconsin-Madison scientists has found that global warming began 5,000 to 8,000 years ago with large-scale agriculture production in Asia and extensive deforestation in Europe.
The introduction of rice cultivation and tree removal caused increases in methane and carbon dioxide according to the research conducted [...]
