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Ancient New Mexico people lived through extreme climate change

Researchers describe the Last Glacial Maximum conditions faced by some of the first people in North America; Dale's tea has never been so outclassed.

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  1. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorIn a report dated October fourteenth, twenty twenty-six, Live Science says researchers have revealed the climate that some of the first people in North America lived through about twenty-three thousand years ago, during the Last Glacial Maximum.

  2. Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorExtreme climate change, in New Mexico, with nobody warned. I have waited my whole life for someone to finally take this seriously.

  3. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorDale, it's a study about people who got through it. That is the most hopeful sentence I have read all year.

  4. Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorGot through it, Vera, with no heating, no electricity, no running water. I once went three hours without Wi-Fi and called my mother.

  5. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorSo they were tougher than you.

  6. Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorTwenty-three thousand years, and the ice age people never once complained about the weather. I hate that I admire them.

  7. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorAnd that, Dale, is what we call growth.

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