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Looking back for the future
11.24.08 | Permalink | Comment?

The image you are looking at here is the sea surface temperature in both the Pliocene and modern times, provided by the Pliocene Research, Interpretation and Synoptic Mapping (PRISM) group, lead by the U.S. Geological Survey.
According to geologists, the mid-Pliocene was a time period that experienced the most extreme warming in the past 3.3 million [...]
Pathogens and climate change
10.08.08 | Permalink | Comment?

The Wildlife Conservation Society just released a very powerful, and extremely relevant, brochure on wildlife-human disease threats as exacerbated by the forces of human induced climate change (pdf) at the recent IUCN World Conservation Congress. According to health experts at the WCS, the increasing fluctuation in precipitation levels coupled with increasing temperatures place at risk [...]