Was Genghis Khan history's greenest conqueror?
The Mongol invasion scrubbed nearly 700 million tons of carbon from the atmosphere, according to surprising new research.
GENGHIS GREEN: The founder of history's largest contiguous empire cooled the planet while taking a body count. (Photo: Wiki Commons/public domain) 
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It's so nice to know that Vietnam vets can also be given congratulations for, as John Kerry said, they "razed villages in fashion reminiscent of Genghis Khan"
I think this is a great article. We need to remember that Hitler was a vegetarian as well. I think we can emulate Genghis Kahn's great work again in the 21st century.
All we need to do is wipe out all the jihadis and the communists, and their useful idiots, the liberals!
Just think of the carbon credits!
He sounds like many of the deep ecologists of today like PAUL EHRLICH,LAMONT COLE,PAUL WATSON, and others that belong to eco-freak groups
Eugenicists crap, all the planets where warming and now are cooling, the weather has always changed and always will, advocating murder is utterly ridiculous.
I'll tell you. It turned into methane a highly potent greenhouse gas. Was this accounted for in these calculations?
According to several people who responded to this article, perhaps they ought to reconsider marriage and its attendant children.
I this is what they desire, then of course their principals will encourage them to a single life.
You know, it's possible to get married without having children. And a married couple uses half the housing resources of two single people.
"Though Genghis Khan's legacy as one of the world's cruelest conquerors isn't likely to change because of the unintended 'green' consequences of his invasions,..."
Hey, don't sell yourselves short! I'm sure with sustained, long-term promotion of research like this, one day a majority of intelligent people will see the light and let go of all their narrow, puritanical attachments to quaint (but outdated) notions of right and wrong. If a strong contingent of environmentalists commit.... More
That is absurd! Will you volunteer to sacrifice yourself and family for the supposed benefit of "Mother Gaia"? Not only are you a warmmonger but most likely one of those left wing eco terrorists. You should learn to think critically before you spout such nonsense.
ericthered,
You should read more carefully. wasp35 is clearly being sarcastic and pointing out the 800 pound gorilla in the Malthusian article about Kahn. Only thugs who want to depopulate the Earth--like environmentalists--could even see value in writing such an absurd article. wasp35 was politely asking them to go off themselves. By the way carbon is a finite quantity since matter is neither created nor destroyed. So whatever carbon is here is always going to be here and will always be.... More
by that logic were the ovens os Auswitz an alternative fuel?
Actually whatever good was done for the Earth by the left-wing labor activist Adolf Hitler and his push for fuel efficient vehicles and elimination of over six million carbon emitting Jews was cancelled out by the pollution caused by burning cities and Allied bombardment.
As always, America is to blame for stopping Hitler's green initiatives from taking root on all continents.
I'm Hitler's followers would have been horrified that their Fuhrer was left wing considering the slaughter he meted out to Communists and social democrats. Still it fits the narrative of both extreme left and extreme right to revise history according to their belief systems.
Oh and America stopped Hitler only after Pearl Harbor because before then GW Bush's grandpa was busy raising money in America to support the Nazis and America First was Hitler's Fifth Column. In point of fact, it took.... More
And don't forget Joe Kennedy (JFK's father) supported the Nazis.
BTW, is Bush to blame for you being so STUPID?
I don't mean to correct you, but your grasp of history bespeaks a California, USA education: you know little and what you do 'know' is incorrect; but you have GREAT self-esteem.
Hitler's followers would not have been any more shocked at the massive killing visited upon Stalin's followers than the same were concerned with the eventual mass killing of the Trotskyites or the 88% purge of Red Army officers by Stalin…just before he needed them most. Add to the tally 20M native Russians.... More
Make up your own history much?
god damn these people are stupid! A third grader could type a more relevant article 98% of the time!
"Though Genghis Khan's legacy as one of the world's cruelest conquerors isn't likely to change because of the unintended "green" consequences of his invasions..."
For real...that quote is in the article. You just can't make this stuff up.
These PhD geniuses imply that virgin forests were always there and that humans scarred the face of the eternal pristine wilderness with their farms. They need to continue back a just few thousand years prior to that to when there were no trees there, just an ice pack a mile thick. The last glacial maximum ended only 10,000 years ago, just a blink of an eye in geologic time. The world is in state of continual change, and earth-worship doesn't make it any different.
The ascendant religion today is Environmentalism with the high priests of Global Climate Change deciding the larger vision, sacraments, atonements and, most recently, "Indulgences" to pre-expiate the sin of their carbon footprint. Follow the money. Oh for a Reformation! But Science can be bought and until it rights itself and returns to a disinterested position, a Reformation is a long way off
Alarmists would burn most of us heretics (those who stopped believing) and you heathens (who.... More
The ascendant religion today is Environmentalism with the high priests of Global Climate Change deciding the larger vision, sacraments, atonements and, most recently, "Indulgences" to pre-expiate the sin of their carbon footprint. Follow the money. Oh for a Reformation! But Science can be bought and until it rights itself and returns to a disinterested position, a Reformation is a long way off
Alarmists would burn most of us heretics (those who stopped believing) and you heathens (who.... More
So how many people do have to kill to offset my CARBON FOOTPRINT!!!!!
THESE PEOPLE ARE BRAIN DEAD!!!!
This is actually a piece of truth from the media. Liberal "environmentalist" would love to get rid of 40 million people from the face of the earth. They think that man is not a part of nature. We are some kind of alien species that is capable of only destruction. This would be a dream come true for liberal environmentalists.
Suicide. Its good for the environment. You must help the environment.
Wow.. What an inspirational story! When I grown up I want to be just like Genghis Khan!
srsly? How about Hitler? What was his carbon offset? Just saying.
well Hitler burned them after they died or gased them with exhaust of the trucks they were transported in, so no. but the ethics seem to be at the same level ..
Supposing that marginal changes CO2 actually do have a significant impact on warming (they don't), how can it possibly be seen as beneficial ("glowing") for Khan to have caused a global cooling effect in the run-up to the Little Ice Age? Is the environmentalist definition of good whatever would happen in the absence of humans? Sorry eco-nuts, but the threat that humans pose the biosphere is nothing compared to having half the planet buried under a mile of ice. Anyone who really cares about the.... More
"humans started to influence the environment thousands of years ago"
Jct: That's why they had to use a "trick to hide the decline." It's hard to dispute human influence when your gang destroyed all the evidence when asked for it. How can anyone dare publish such tripe?
I agree with Chris' comment. I shudder to think what environmentalists will eventually become.
Environmentalists really need to listen to themselves sometimes. It's becoming clear many silently cheer for genocide. ...of course themselves never included in the process.
I really hope you were just trying to be humorous here.
And not being way too honest about an anti-human agenda. Mass murder and democide is green? Kill everyone else but your self, I take it, so you can sniff posies in the woods in peace?
If this is the way you really think, then you should be kept far, far away from anything resembling political power.
You environmentalists are either wittingly or unwittingly plucking on the anti-humanistic strains of Heidegger. There is a reason they call it "eco-fascism."
What a ridiculous article. That is some disgusting coffee you are drinking. You better be careful with this type of article, people will accuse you of inciting violence.
Unfortunately the picture used in this article is of Kublai Khan grandson of Genghis not Genghis himself
By this logic we should be celebrating Stalin, Hitler and other murderous dictators as saving the planet by getting rid of those problem citizens... Is that were we are heading, "sorry but your carbon impact exceeds your value"; another reason to justify abortion, infanticide, assisted suicide for those don't ask for the assistance.?
ugtbekidn: you didn't read thoroughly enough - the Mongol empire lasted so long the forests re-grew. By their logic, if only Hitler's regine had lasted longer...
(and no, I'm not condoning this article - sarcasm here)
You must be very foolish to write this. There is no attempt in the article to justify Ghengis Khan's behaviour - merely to point out the unintended effects on the environment. Are you aware of any specific effects Hitler and Stalin had on the environment? You are not really entitled to use the word 'logic'.
Its a story.. Just that....For a land so full of bloody coffee, cant you just wake up and smell it?
Chuck Norris could kill more.
Chuck would kick their heads clean off.
Not to over use a scientist's statement, but "Freeze or fry, the problem is always Captialism and the solution is always Socialism." When is this man made environmental charade going to end? Yawn, it's getting boring: we've been lit up by dying polar bears that aren't; we've been assured that the seas will rise and drown us all; what used to be called 'Seasons' is now global climate change--and through it all the solution has been to throw.... More
Where first published this ******* stupid news?Delete this.
So a brute such as GK can exterminate millions, destroy food production, and restore forests? Give him a bigger and better general's badge! This type of crap thinking is dangerous. Ever heard of UN Agenda 21? This is straight out of that plan. Look it up on the UN's website. It's all about sequestering humans and returning the land to animals. www.democratsagainstunagenda21.com.... More
I guess this website will accept anything. As a typical San Francisco lib, I am appalled that such drivel is published. Fortunately, the readership is so small here that no one will know how loony environmentalists are becoming.
Liberals that live in San Francisco don't refer to themselves 'San Francisco libs,' as if it is a distinct category. Nice try, though.
