Category Archives: Extinction

I’d rather have an Ice Age

Stager, Curt.  2011.   Deep Future. The next 100,000 years of life on earth. Thomas Dunne Books. Overall the tone of this book is don’t worry, there’s a lot we don’t know, and based on what we don’t know and how … 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

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Will global warming drive us extinct? A review of Peter Ward’s “Under a Green Sky”

Will global warming drive homo sapiens extinct? A review of: Ward, Peter D. 2007. Under a Green Sky: Global Warming, the Mass Extinctions of the Past, and What They Can Tell Us About Our Future. There’ve been five major extinctions … Continue reading

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