Sunday, February 22, 2009

Extinction in the News

Here are some recent articles on (mass) extinction and global warming. Mass extinction is what we should be trying to avoid at all costs, of course. Even if you only care about humans, our population would at best shrink dramatically (i.e. the vast majority of us would die) in a mass extinction, and at worst we would cease to exist entirely too.

Mass Extinctions May Follow One-Two Punch
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/02/17/mass-extinction-theory.html

Study Sees Mass Extinctions via Warming
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3897120/

Penguins Showing Strain Under Climate Change
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/02/13/magellanic-penguins.html

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