One scientist's hobby: recreating the ice age (Recreating extinct megafauna ecosystems to slow GW)

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101128/ap_on_re_eu/eu_russia_ice_age_park

"CHERSKY, Russia – Wild horses have returned to northern Siberia. So have musk oxen, hairy beasts that once shared this icy land with woolly mammoths and saber-toothed cats. Moose and reindeer are here, and may one day be joined by Canadian bison and deer.

Later, the predators will come — Siberian tigers, wolves and maybe leopards.

Russian scientist Sergey Zimov is reintroducing these animals to the land where they once roamed in millions to demonstrate his theory that filling the vast emptiness of Siberia with grass-eating animals can slow global warming."


Now that's geo-engineering I can support! I've read of his proposals a few years ago, but I never realized he's begun to flesh out his dream.

I hope like hell his theory about megafaunal grazing trapping carbon actually works.

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