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Episode 001 - Matt Kirshen, Brooks Wheelan, Andy Wood

Probably Science

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The Unintended Climate Consequences of Christopher Columbus

This chapter explores the idea that the arrival of Christopher Columbus and other explorers in America inadvertently caused climate change. The devastation caused by diseases brought by Europeans led to the decimation of indigenous populations, resulting in cleared land that eventually filled up with trees, lowering the carbon rate.

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