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Category: Global Warming
We've all heard about the dire straits polar bears are facing if they lose their icy habitat to global warming. But just how many species may global warming drive extinct? One way to find out is to look over the...
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Category: Global Warming
I've got a new conversation up at bloggingheads.tv. This time around I talk to University of Washington paleontologist Peter Ward about the mass extinctions that wiped out millions of species in the past, and how disturbingly difficult it is to...
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Category: Global Warming
[Update 10/18 8:30 am: Honestly, when I wrote this post last night, I could only access the first couple paragraphs of the op-ed in question. But now the link takes you to the full text. Could it be that my...
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Category: Upcoming Talks
If you live anywhere near my home town of Guilford, Connecticut, I'd be delighted if you could join me Thursday at 7:30 at the Guilford Free Library for a talk, "Will Global Warming Redraw the Map of Life?" (flyer pdf)...
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Category: Global Warming
I've got a story in the current issue of Science about the challenge of predicting how many species (and which) may become extinct due to global warming. You can read the article here on my web site. I blogged about...
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Category: Global Warming
A bit of journalistic irony. Last week I groused that a new paper on methane from plants was getting very little attention in the press, despite the fact that it refutes a 2006 paper published in Nature that got lots...
Posted by Carl Zimmer at 1:32 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Global Warming
Here's a story that should be getting lots of press but apparently isn't: a new study indicates that plants don't release lots of methane gas. You may perhaps recall a lot of attention paid to methane from plants back in...
Posted by Carl Zimmer at 4:24 PM • 18 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Global Warming
Check this out. An international team of climate experts has been looking into the impact of climate on ecosystems, food production, and other aspects of the natural and human-controlled world. They've just come out with the executive summary of their...
Posted by Carl Zimmer at 9:31 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Global Warming
There's nothing more grating for a science writer than see your work get cut and pasted to give people precisely the wrong impression. My latest irritation: "Ten Questions For Al Gore and the Global Warming Crowd", which appeared Friday on...
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Category: Upcoming Talks
Next week I'll be heading to Utah. Southern Utah University asked me to be their Visiting Eccles Scholar, which means that I'll be spending a couple days talking with students and faculty. I'll also be giving two talks that are...
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