Global warming of +10C is ====>!!NOT!!<==== a reasonable expectation (erratum et apologia)

[AldoLeopold]

27. Yah, totally its contraversial

Has been so for years. I follow it rather closely but my mind isn't set. It's a good tragedy of the commons parable though, don't you think?

Plus, if the max pop was 3k, doesn't it seem unlikely that the Moai ancestor carvings in such large numbers would have appeared during a 200 year window?

Plus, European colonists introduced the specific species of rat all over the pacific and beyond and yet you don't see this sort of devastation typically? Perhaps a lack of natural predators in this case? That seems to be Hunt's opinion and he's probably right.

I think a comparative study is in order on this one. The whole thing might have been a confluence of anthro and non-anthro events.

Local oral tradition doesn't support Hunt's claims, the French accounts don't support Hunts claims. All they've got is the radiocarbon dating which changes settlement dates by 50 years. Either way, we pretty much know the place was covered with palm trees in 1100 a.d. So what happened to them? Rats? Humans? Both? Alien plasma weapons when one of the carvings didn't look enough like The Supreme Divine Galactic Emperor Xarxagogo XVIII? For the parable's purpose, it doesn't matter. Unless you believe the population of humans was always 3k and never 15k. Frankly, I don't buy that. Three thousand people didn't spend their time lugging around those damn statues and still feed and clothe themselves. Horse manure.