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Category Archives: Extinction
Why and how Jellyfish are taking over the world
Preface. The more climate change kicks in, the more we over-fish, pollute, acidify and warm the ocean, create vast dead zones, and trawl ocean bottoms, the better the jellyfish do. It is quite possible that the ocean ecosystem will shift … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Extinction, Fisheries, Jellyfish, Peak Food
Tagged extinction, jellyfish
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Without a Trace ‘The Sixth Extinction,’ by Elizabeth Kolbert
Review by Al Gore Feb 10, 2014. New York Times. Over the past decade, Elizabeth Kolbert has established herself as one of our very best science writers. She has developed a distinctive and eloquent voice of conscience on issues arising … Continue reading
Posted in Extinction, Extinction
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New York Times review of “Countdown” by Alan Weisman
A book review by Nathaniel Rich, October 11, 2013, New York Times of: COUNTDOWN. Our Last, Best Hope for a Future on Earth? By Alan Weisman If we wanted to bring about the extinction of the human race as quickly … Continue reading
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How and Why Corporate Interests Attack Science. A Detailed Account of the Attack on the Hockey Stick graph
A Book review of: Bradley, Raymond. S. 2011. Global Warming and Political Intimidation. How Politicians Cracked Down on Scientists as the Earth Heated up. University of Massachusetts Press. I would read Oreskes’ “Merchants of Doubt. How a Handful of Scientists … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Extinction
Tagged attack on science, climate change, extinction, global warming, global warming and political intimidation, hocky stick, raymond bradley, uninhabitable
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Will global warming drive us extinct? A review of Peter Ward’s “Under a Green Sky”
[ Since I posted this 6 years ago I’ve read many other books and science articles. Because we are at peak oil, peak coal, and peak natural gas (and many other peaks of essential resources), there is a good chance … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Extinction
Tagged anoxic ocean, book review, canfield ocean, climate change, global warming, mass extinction, under a green sky
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When Life Nearly Died. The greatest mass extinction of all time
[ Benton shows why it was probably lava flows, not impact from meteors that caused the Permian extinction. I don’t know why everyone isn’t reading whatever they can find on the greatest mass murder of all time — the Permian … Continue reading
Posted in But not from climate change: Peak Fossil Fuels, Extinction
Tagged extinction, gas hydrate, methane hydrate, peak coal, peak natural gas, peak oil, permian
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