From University of Chicago Press Journals: New research challenges the controversial theory that an ancient comet impact devastated the Clovis people, one of the earliest known cultures to inhabit North…
Category: Extinction
AGW=dead lizards? Maybe it's not the heat, but the handbags and herpetology aficionados?
I covered this story Mid May on WUWT. http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/05/13/now-its-lizards-going-extinct-due-to-climate-change/ An email today asking if this is real science or just hype prompted me to do some research. First, below, the…
Now it's lizards going extinct due to climate change
From a press release from Villanova University, more worry. I don’t know about the researchers experiences, but my property is overrun with the Western Fence Lizard. I can hardly avoid…
Climate Change and the dinosaurs
The prevailing theory (on Dino extinction) is said to be a comet/meteor strike, evidenced in the KT Iridium layer, found worldwide. This study though suggests that even though CO2 was…
Big Bird meets Big Green
Ecotretas writes in with this sad video. =========================== First time I’ve seen an image of a big bird going down due to wind energy: The important part is at 1:57…
Global Warming not to blame for toad extinction
From a Columbia University press release, here’s a case where the early speculation of science was wrong. Originally global warming was blamed, but it turns out to be El Niño…
NOAA langoliers eat another 1/3 of stations from GHCN database
Dallas Fort Worth airport is one of hundreds of GHCN reporting stations gone missing. GHCN stations are becoming an endangered species. 2010 Thermometer Langoliers Hit List Guest post by E.M.Smith…
Where Are The Corpses?
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Abstract The record of continental (as opposed to island) bird and mammal extinctions in the last five centuries was analyzed to determine if the “species-area”…
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