ClimateSight

Posted in Open Threads | Tagged climate change, global warming | 6 Comments

6 Responses

1. on May 16, 2011 at 8:26 am | Reply Overcoming Illness With Joy

   We all get behind sometimes. I look forward to reading more of your posts!

   
   
2. on May 18, 2011 at 8:54 am | Reply chrisd3

   Kate, in your post on extinction and climate

   http://climatesight.org/2011/02/17/extinction-and-climate/

   you write about warming as a key, if not primary, factor in the previous mass extinctions.

   In the case of triggers such as asteroid hits and massive volcanic activity, there must have been significant initial effects from aerosols, resulting in loss of vegetation, etc. Certainly traditional TV science always shows the dinosaurs keelng over from starvation. :)

   I understand that anoxia from warming was the primary cause of the loss of marine species, but was warming also the key factor on land? Is there a sense of how the two effects stack up in terms of proportions?

   
   
3. on May 30, 2011 at 1:35 pm | Reply Paul D

   As this is an open thread, i’ll use it as an opportunity to advertise the new climate science data visualisation app over at skeptical science:

   http://www.skepticalscience.com/Interactive-History-of-Climate-Science.html

   
   
4. on May 30, 2011 at 7:54 pm | Reply roger

   Is There Something Wrong With The Scientific Method?

   http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/12/13/101213fa_fact_lehrer?currentPage=all

   
   
5. on May 30, 2011 at 8:04 pm | Reply roger

   Earth Sciences

   http://www.nap.edu/topics.php?topic=281

   
   
6. on June 23, 2011 at 8:07 pm | Reply roger

   Climate change

   http://abcnews.go.com/US/minot-north-dakota-residents-flee-nuclear-silos-protected/story?id=13913535