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“How many people did Genghis Khan kill? So many that it was good for the environment

The genocide had major consequences for the entire planet.

Genghis Khan might have been the greenest invader of all time. His bloody conquests killed tens of millions of people. But at the same time, he killed so many people that in the path of his invasion, huge swathes of cultivated land returned to forests, eliminating a huge amount of carbon from the atmosphere.

Genghis Khan’s legacy still haunts mankind to this day.
When some 600 years after your lifetime, people don’t refer to you by your real name, but by a name meaning “Supreme Ruler” (which is what “Genghis Khan” means), you’ve done some things in life.

In just a lifetime, Genghis Khan created the largest empire that ever was — larger than what the Romans did in centuries. As you might guess, he didn’t accomplish this through peaceful negotiation and smooth diplomacy — Genghis Khan was a conqueror by force.

The wars led in his name killed some 40 million people (about 10% of the world’s population at the time)! But, as a new study showed, these bloody conquests helped the environment, removing nearly 700 million tons of carbon from the atmosphere.

While the Mongol ruler wasn’t even thinking about it, he was causing the first man-made global cooling.”

How many people did Genghis Khan kill? So many that it was good for the environment

Same story as a century ago.

The Second International Congress of Eugenics Address of Welcome

The Australia Climate Council says Alice Springs will see a huge increase in the number of hot days, unless Australia takes “climate action.”

The Australian Climate Council says if Australia doesn’t partake in “climate action,” Alice Springs will have 42 more days per year over 35C.

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Alice Springs has about the same number of 35C days now as they did during the 1880s

Australia could drop off the map and it would have no impact on the the growth of atmospheric CO2.

Annual CO? emissions

“Sen. Cheri Steinmetz (R-Lingle), who brought Senate File 1 amendment 1S-3041 to defund the programs, discounts the need to curb greenhouse gas emissions and has openly opposed notions that Wyoming must produce lower-carbon energy. She convened a controversial climate denial hearing in February as chair of the Senate Agriculture, State and Public Lands & Water Resources Committee.

The primary message of the Feb. 13 hearing was the long-disproven falsehood that human-caused greenhouse gas emissions are not a major contributor to climate change or a threat to humans and the environment. Steinmetz organized the hearing amid growing criticism from the far right of the governor’s vocal efforts to make Wyoming carbon-negative.

House, Senate square off over funding for Gordon’s energy strategy – Cheyenne, WY Cap City News

The longest drought in the US since 1900 occurred in South Dakota from April 1931 to August 1941, peaking during August 1934.

The Associated Press says 1.2 million acres of grassland fires in Texas in 2024 is larger than a ten million acre forest fire in 1903.

“STINNETT, Texas (AP) — Wildfires may have destroyed as many as 500 structures in the Texas Panhandle, Republican Gov. Greg Abbott said Friday, describing how the largest blaze in state history scorched everything in its path, leaving ashes in its wake.

Texas officials warned that the threat was not yet over. Higher temperatures and stronger winds forecast for Saturday elevated worries that fires in the Panhandle could spread beyond the more than 1,700 square miles (4,400 square kilometers) already chewed up this week by fast-moving flames.”

Gov. Abbott says Texas wildfires may have destroyed up to 500 structures | AP News

TimesMachine: November 22, 1903 – NYTimes.com

National Fire News | National Interagency Fire Center

The 1903 Fire came a few weeks after large scale flooding in the eastern US

14 Oct 1903 – FLOODS IN AMERICA. – Trove

Weather Underground has taken the big lie even further.

“Texas Wildfire Now Second-Largest In U.S. History”

Cheyenne, WY 10-Day Weather Forecast | Weather Underground

During February 1898 three million acres burned in South Carolina and there were much larger fires in Colorado later in the year.

Thermometer data from ALBEMARLE, North Carolina shows a strong cooling trend, but NOAA tampers with the thermometer data to create a warming trend. This includes fabricating completely fake temperatures from 1895-1910.  Historical temperatures are cooled as much as 5.7F, and recent temperatures are warmed as much as 4.6F – a total of more than ten degrees of data tampering.

Thermometer readings at rural Haverhill, Massachusetts show cooling, but NOAA
tampers with the data to create a 4.3F/century warming trend. Older temperatures at Haverhill are cooled by 4.6F, and recent temperatures are warmed as much as 1.2F.

John Kerry and the Guardian are upset that people are exposing their nonstop flow of disinformation about climate.

Demagogues imperilling global fight against climate breakdown, says Kerry | Climate crisis | The Guardian

Someone who has me blocked on Twitter says pleasant weather in the Midwest this week is the most extreme event in US climatic history.