Domestication of Plants & Climate since the Neolithic Revolution?

Question

To what degree have the domestication of plants affected the climate since the beginning of the Neolithic Revolution?

"My claim that human contributions have been altering the earth's climate for millenia is provocative" -- William Ruddiman, 2005

ref: Ruddiman, 2003

http://stephenschneider.stanford.edu/Publications/PDF_Papers/Ruddiman2003.pdf

Answer 1

Neolithic farmers deforested the lands in which they lived in order to farm. I suppose this may have contributed to a gradual climate change. The neolithic in Britain was warmer than today; it was during the bronze age the rains came,washing goodness from the soil . People took to settlements on the hills, & ceased to worship at solar-oriented temples like Stonehenge instead  casting offerings to chthonian underworld gods in lake and river

Answer 2

I don't think the domestication of plants was the problem but the farming of them. Millions of acres of forest were destroyed to make way for farmland and the interference in the natural balance of nature has caused most of our problems.

Answer 3

I don't think it has change the climate (but climate has probably changed the agriculture) The domestication of plants has changed the landscape for sure... irrigation (canals and such), fertility of lands...