The Independent had a science article on extinctions last Wednesday that pointed to rising or falling sea levels as the trigger for mass extinctions, not asteroids, gamma rays or earlier technological civilisations. I still think that the Permian extinction was caused by Cthulhu. This theory is timely and attractive to the glabal warmers: manmade activity causes sea levels to rise, killing habitats and causing a great extinction. This also happened in the past. Their logic then extends this correlation into culpability for the so-called rape of the planet.
Global warming has already led to changes on every continent. Scientists
examined reports dating back to 1970 and found that in at least 90 per cent
of cases, shifts in wildlife behaviour and populations could only be
explained by global warming. The team also found that 95 per cent of
environmental changes, from melting permafrost to retreating glaciers, were
caused by an increase in global temperature.
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It is the appeal to nebulous authority and the blind refusal to acknowledge the uncertainty of our knowledge that renders the science pages of the MSM to be a disgrace: articles of faith replacing debate.