false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176492119m/630144.jpg 630144 4 <P>University of Washington paleontologist Peter D. Ward demonstrates in UNDER A GREEN SKY that the ancient past is not just of academic concern. Everyone has heard about how an asteroid did in the dinosaurs, and NASA and other agencies now spend large sums of money tracking so&ndash;called near Earth objects. Unfortunately, we may not be protecting ourselves against the likeliest cause of our species' demise. Ward's argument, which has been presented to his peers via several papers in Science, is that all but one of the major extinction events in the history of the world have been brought on by climate change&ndash;the same global warming that we are experiencing today.</P><P> Ward explains how those extinctions happened, and then applies those chilling lessons to the modern day: expect drought, superstorms, poison&ndash;belching oceans, mass extinction of much life, and sickly green skies.</P> 616469 19 4 2007 Under a Green Sky: Global Warming, the Mass Extinctions of the Past, and What They Can Tell Us About Our Future total:49|5:10|4:21|3:13|2:5|1:0| 49 183 88 18 2 1 false false Fri Sep 12 10:45:20 -0700 2008 Tue Sep 02 17:38:53 -0700 2008 Fri Sep 12 10:45:20 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Jan 12 06:14:49 -0800 2008 Fri Feb 01 07:15:05 -0800 2008 more...]]> 2 0 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Jan 14 20:37:51 -0800 2008 Mon Jan 14 20:39:20 -0800 2008 Not sure about this yet...packed with interesting information, but writing style is a a bit convoluted.

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