Comments on: Hot Times in Deep Time: My New Piece for the New Yale Environment 360 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2008/06/13/hot-times-in-deep-time-my-new-piece-for-the-new-yale-environment-360/ A blog about life, past and future. Written by DISCOVER contributing editor and columnist Carl Zimmer. Sat, 26 May 2012 01:25:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: David B. Benson http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2008/06/13/hot-times-in-deep-time-my-new-piece-for-the-new-yale-environment-360/comment-page-1/#comment-939 David B. Benson Sat, 14 Jun 2008 02:08:15 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2008/06/13/hot-times-in-deep-time-my-new-piece-for-the-new-yale-environment-360/#comment-939 Don --- I doubt it. You could start finding out by reading "The Sixth Mass Extinction". As well as whatever Carl Zimmer has written (is going to write) about it. Don — I doubt it. You could start finding out by reading “The Sixth Mass Extinction”.

As well as whatever Carl Zimmer has written (is going to write) about it.

]]> By: Don http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2008/06/13/hot-times-in-deep-time-my-new-piece-for-the-new-yale-environment-360/comment-page-1/#comment-938 Don Fri, 13 Jun 2008 21:04:46 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2008/06/13/hot-times-in-deep-time-my-new-piece-for-the-new-yale-environment-360/#comment-938 There seems to be an assumption that the upcoming global environment change will reduce biodiversity. Could it not be that it will change the biodiversity by adding as much as it takes away? Maybe the real fear is this change (because of our obvious investment in the status quo), though it's stated to be a reduction. There seems to be an assumption that the upcoming global environment change will reduce biodiversity. Could it not be that it will change the biodiversity by adding as much as it takes away? Maybe the real fear is this change (because of our obvious investment in the status quo), though it’s stated to be a reduction.

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