Hunting large herbivores may have (slightly) contributed to global warming
CHRISTOPHER FIELD is probably best known as the co-chair of the Intergovermental Panel on Climate Change’s working group on impacts, adaptation and vulnerability. In his day-job, however, he still engages in some serious boffinry. Take the paper soon to be published in Geophysical Research Letters which he wrote with two colleagues from the Carnegie Institution for Science in Stanford. They argue that mankind’s prehistoric penchant for mammoth may have had a discernible effect on climate.
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