Lead author William Taylor, a postdoctoral research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, says that this model «enables us for the first time to
link horse use with other important cultural developments in
ancient Mongolia and eastern Eurasia, and evaluate the role of
climate and environmental
change in the local origins of horse riding.»
The announcement comes as research published by the National Academies shows that extreme heat waves can be attributed with near - certainty to
climate change; a NOAA study
links global warming to toxic algae blooms; and paleoclimatic research shows that Antarctic glaciers fluctuated with
ancient CO2 levels, raising sea level tens of meters when CO2 levels were just 500 ppm.