During my many enjoyable years teaching vertebrate zoology at ETSU, I would always end my lecture on the evolution of the vertebrates by saying we had now entered a unique stage in the history of life on Earth – The Age of Man.  I would then go on and point out that we have long been used to referring to various Ages of -- (Fishes, Amphibians, Reptiles, etc.) but there has never before been a time that only ONE species was the dominant biological force on…

Hot: Living Through the Next Fifty Years on Earth by Mark Hertsgaard

This is the latest in a series of books dealing with the idea that the climate change shouting is over and the game has begun.  The basic idea is that if we really wanted to avoid climate change due to global warming we should have reduced CO2 emissions 20-30 years ago when the problem was first noted.  As a result of this foot-dragging, global warming and climate change are now under way and nothing…