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[lemit]

I recently heard a theory that intrigues me:

The Amazon basin was populated by millions in highly developed cultures and technologies until the end of the Fifteenth Century, in other words, during the Medieval Warm Period.

When the native cultures died and the forests reclaimed the Amazon, we entered the Little Ice Age.

Now, accelerated destruction of the Amazon forests and the acceleration of global warming seem to coincide.

That's the logic. Can anybody tell me what the science says?

Thanks.

--lemit