War, plague no match for deforestation in driving CO2 buildup

Thursday, January 20, 2011 - 13:03 in Earth & Climate

Stanford, CA -- Genghis Khan and his Mongol hordes had an impact on the global carbon cycle as big as today's annual demand for gasoline. The Black Death, on the other hand, came and went too...

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