I don't understand why some people insist that a mass extinction
cannot possibly have a single cause. Sure everything tends to turn out
to be more complicated than we thought at first, but why start with
the maximally munificent hypothesis?
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From: "don ohmes" <d_ohmes@yahoo.com>
Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2008 5:17 PM
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2) our current climate system is such that a "run-away" greenhouse
can occur.
If by "runaway" you actually mean "runaway", as on Venus, then it
isn't. There is no chance that it could get so hot it doesn't rain
anymore.
But a sea-level rise of a single meter, let alone three, is bad
enough. We're talking about hundreds of millions of people having to
move. Even if spread through decades, that's horror enough. And I
haven't even mentioned the golden toad yet.