Studies by Ohio caver Greg Springer as well as colleagues from UT Arlington and elsewhere have shown that Native Americans were actively burning forests and contributing significant carbon dioxide to the atmosphere well before the arrival of European settlers: <http://www.physorg.com/news190561417.html>, <http://news.discovery.com/earth/native-americans-carbon-emissions.html>. Part of the evidence comes from caves in West Virginia.

Mark Minton

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