What I don't understand is why hardly anybody mentions
mass extinctions when they warn of global warming. Can
you imagine an Earth with 95% of its species lost? I can't.
For many decades a sizable fraction of the worlds population
hasn't seemed to mind living in very low species diversity
Brendan,
Unfortunately, in my experience, most people don't seem too concerned that
95% of the species on Earth might be wiped out by global warming. Why?
Because they believe that (A) humans will be among the 5% that survive [we are,
after all, the intelligent species], (B) as long as
Brendan,
There was an excellent NAS Sackler Symposium a few years ago that
focused on the biodiversity components of mass extinction (and
includes several talks involving or informed by the fossil
record). Jeremy Jackson (using both modern and ancient ecosystems)
sounded perhaps the most
Dear Dong Gill:
Thanks for sharing Jan Reichelt's response to your inquiry.
So what are you still confused about? Think of Mendeley as a library. You bring
your old books to them and they share them with other people. They also help
other people find you to borrow a book from you directly. As
Global warming is a ruse. There is no evidence contemporary global
warming will cause sea level rise, for example. Sea levels are pretty
high anyways. warm the atmosphere, more water goes into the air, more is
cycled onto land. Will sea levels rise? Will it make some great
difference, especially
On Sat, 2009-05-23 at 10:50 -0400, Alexey A Voinov wrote:
Dear Dong Gill:
Thanks for sharing Jan Reichelt's response to your inquiry.
So what are you still confused about? Think of Mendeley as a library. You
bring
your old books to them and they share them with other people. They also
Ha Milton and Ecolog:
The sky may very well be falling, but homeostasis has its ups as well as its
downs. There is always the possibility that the anthropogenic fraction of
climatic fluctuation is damped as well as inflamed thereby, and that any
trends we choose to illuminate will similarly
