Under a Green Sky Global Warming the Mass Extinctions of the Past and What They Can Tell Us About Our Future Read & Download ¼ 104

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Under a Green Sky Global Warming the Mass Extinctions of the Past and What They Can Tell Us About Our Future Read & Download ¼ 104 Ì By looking backward at the course of great extinctions a paleontologist sees what the future holdsMore than 200 millionBy looking backward at the course of great extinctions a paleontologist sees what the future holdsMore than 200 million years ago a cataclysmic event known as the Permian extinction destroyed than 90 percent of all species and nearly 97 percent of all living things Its origins have long been a puzzle for paleontologists During the 1990s and the early part of this century a great battle was fought between those who thought that death had come from above and those who thought something complicated was at workPale. So far the purple tint of the prose is getting in the way of some interesting geological and paleontological sleuthing and scientific paradigm politicking It's like someone told this guy he was a really good writer and he took it to mean that tortured sentences and irrelevant references to cultural icons actually add value As if i could cast stones but then i'm not writing booksOne of those people who are in an abusive relationship with language even though or because they love it so much You know who i mean

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The discovery of what is responsible makes for a fascinating globe spanning adventureIn Under a Green Sky Ward explains how the Permian extinction as well as four others happened and describes the freakish oceans belching poisonous gas and sky slightly green and always hazy that would have attended them Those ancient upheavals demonstrate that the threat of climate change cannot be ignored lest the world's life today ourselves included face the same dire fate that has overwhelmed our planet several times before. Hard to argue against

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Under a Green Sky Global Warming the Mass Extinctions of the Past and What They Can Tell Us About Our FutureOntologist Peter D Ward fresh from helping prove that an asteroid had killed the dinosaurs turned to the Permian problem and he has come to a stunning conclusion In his investigations of the fates of several groups of mollusks during that extinction and others he discovered that the near total devastation at the end of the Permian period was caused by rising levels of carbon dioxide leading to climate change But it's not the heat nor the humidity that's directly responsible for the extinctions and the story of. What's the worst case scenario that could happen in the future because of global warming This book will tell you Paleontologist Peter D Ward has spent his entire academic career studying the effects of past climates on the earth's many life forms and in my opinion he speaks with great authority when projecting these findings into the future Written almost like a detective novel Ward leads you through the latest scientific discoveries about past climates and the mechanisms that produced them Some of the conclusions he reaches are truly disturbing and could almost be read as a call to action for those of us aware of this momentous problem to avert the worst ravages of the climate change that is already upon us The green sky referred to in the book's title represents a lifeless planet earth that could result if global warming is left uncheckedI read this book after reading Climate Wars The Fight for Survival as the World Overheats because the author of that book referred to this one so often to support his own conclusions Climate Wars lays out several near future scenarios that could result from unchecked global warming and Under a Green Sky completes the picture by showing how the present trends of CO2 accumulation the primary mechanism of climate change can lead to a nightmarish longer term future