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2008-04-24 -Short Attention Span Theater-

Hottentots driven almost extinction due to Climate Change

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Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2008-04-24 15:42|| || Front Page|| [11129 views ] Top

#1 "Hottentots?" I thought this was yet another story about Brittany Spears. Ho Hum, back to past.

Posted by JohnQC 2008-04-24 16:00|| 2008-04-24 16:00|| Front Page Top

#2 Yet these same buffoons insist that climate change is caused by man. I'll believe that when I see them dig up a 70,000 year old Hummer.

Posted by AlanC 2008-04-24 16:05|| 2008-04-24 16:05|| Front Page Top

#3 The article says extreme drought. Extreme drought would be associated with cooling, not warming. In warming, more water evaporates from the ocean and so there is more rain. With cooling, less water evaporates from the oceans.

70,000 years ago would have been about smack in the middle of the last glaciation. Global COOLING is more of an extinction threat than global warming is.

Posted by crosspatch 2008-04-24 16:14|| 2008-04-24 16:14|| Front Page Top

#4 The headline at the original source should read "Humans nearly wiped out by last ice age!".

Posted by crosspatch 2008-04-24 16:16|| 2008-04-24 16:16|| Front Page Top

#5 There is also speculation that the Toba eruption supervolcano event was the cause of the population bottleneck.

Posted by crosspatch 2008-04-24 16:30|| 2008-04-24 16:30|| Front Page Top

#6 The speculation is we are all descended from a small population that relied on freshwater fish for their main food source and they survived because there were still fish when a volcanic winter caused by the Toba eruption wiped out 9x% of land animals.

Posted by phil_b 2008-04-24 16:40|| 2008-04-24 16:40|| Front Page Top

#7 Good thing they were not Vegetarians.

Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2008-04-24 17:07|| 2008-04-24 17:07|| Front Page Top

#8 What made the Hottentot so hot?

/semi-obscure reference,

//put in the next line if you get it.

Posted by OldSpook 2008-04-24 18:26|| 2008-04-24 18:26|| Front Page Top

#9 It was definitely Courage making them hot.

Posted by SteveS 2008-04-24 18:45|| 2008-04-24 18:45|| Front Page Top

#10 Sorry, John QC - no Brittany. It's Hottentot, not "Hot to Trot."

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2008-04-24 19:25|| http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/]">[http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/] 2008-04-24 19:25|| Front Page Top

#11 What put the ape in apricot?

Posted by OldSpook 2008-04-24 21:48|| 2008-04-24 21:48|| Front Page Top

#12 "Courage"

Posted by Redneck Jim">Redneck Jim 2008-04-24 22:01|| 2008-04-24 22:01|| Front Page Top

#13 Cowardly Lion
"Whadda they Got, that I ain't got"

Scarecrow.
"Courage"

Cowardly Lion
"You can say that again",
(Puzzled look)
"What".

Standing Army of OZ
"The Wizard says" "Go Away"

Posted by Redneck Jim">Redneck Jim 2008-04-24 22:10|| 2008-04-24 22:10|| Front Page Top

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