Comments on: Gasp! My new article on global warming and oxygen

By: JRR Canada

JRR Canada — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 03:03:38 +0000

Just another sample of why I do not waste money on Discover Magazine any more.Coulda, woulda, shoulda is not science.That global warming caused by mans CO2 byproduct is so real and dominant on the current temps eh.Which will happen first, bankrupty for magazine or a clear man caused rise in overal global temp.

By: Raphael Hymel

Raphael Hymel — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 10:54:05 +0000

Survival in these years requires knowledge and expertise and I believe without nurturing oneself, reading survival books sure theirs way we anybody can fight global warming or any related environmental catastrophes.

By: amphiox

amphiox — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 17:30:17 +0000

re: #3

Maybe so, but that is little comfort for the individual organisms and species suffering from climate change right now. It is little comfort indeed for ANY organism living right now. (That, by the way, includes us).

Because organisms do NOT adapt. Populations adapt. Organisms just live or die. And the faster the adaption (the stronger the selection pressure), the more present death.

And there’s no guarantee that adapting to be more resilient to one type of climate change will make those populations more resistant to other kinds of catastrophes. It can just as easily make them more vulnerable.

By: Aleks

Aleks — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 15:37:50 +0000

So the water organisms will have to adapt to changing conditions, making life on Earth more resilient and adaptive – so that the next time an asteroid hits earth, it will take far less time for the biome to recover!

By: staniq

staniq — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 09:10:14 +0000

Unbelievable. Mr. Zimmer is stil only evolutionist known for me, which is hot dream believer in warming masquerade. What about your experience with roaring history of life and this planet? I dont understand you, really Maybe your environment is deeply distinct from universities at former soviet vasal states…

[CZ: I'm afraid I don't quite understand you either. If you're saying that a familiarity with the history of life should convince one that global warming is a masquerade, then you haven't been talking to paleoclimatologists like I have. The geological record shows that rising carbon dioxide leads to rising temperatures and other changes to the Earth. Extinctions are a fact of life, and pulses of extinctions have been linked to rapid changes in the physical conditions of the planet.]

By: Rhacodactylus

Rhacodactylus — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 13:45:08 +0000

If it weren’t for the whole “end of the world” thing, it might be fun learning the science behind all the unique and wonderful ways in which we are screwed.