Did the Mongol Conquests really cool the Earth? Mongol Myths #3

"Genghis Khan killed so many people that it cooled the earth! He really was the Greenest conqueror!" You may have heard someone tell you recently. In this video, I look at the article which made that claim in the first place, and we evaluate this argument; you'll see as usual, that the internet and tabloid articles are not the best source for nuanced historical analysis. DONATIONS: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/jackmeister Paypal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/thejackmeister?locale.x=en_US Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheJackmeister/ SOURCES: Pongratz, Julia et al. “Coupled climate-carbon simulations indicate minor global effects of wars and epidemics on atmospheric CO₂ between AD 800 and 1850.” The Holocene 21 no. 4 (2011): 843-851. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0959683610386981 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0959683610386981?casa_token=AfOpkC8s8r4AAAAA:EAL7PmujmuzXc4UMOwGLUE8TiVFSwb2SKFrjTH-aPhvZLGWEAj-EUARlW6bimfbCe-FYjslcMYhp https://epub.ub.uni-muenchen.de/68509/index.html Either see if you can access it at the above links, or copy/paste the DOI into scihub to read it for yourself. “Genghis Khan the GREEN: Invader killed so many people that carbon levels plummeted.” Daily Mail, updated January 2011. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1350272/Genghis-Khan-killed-people-forests-grew-carbon-levels-dropped.html Though frankly I would avoid reading that article entirely, both as it's so poorly written and basically the entire page is ads. MUSIC ATTRIBUTES: Music is provided by Epidemic Sound. http://www.epidemicsound.com #mongolempire