Monday, September 17, 2012

Green Weenie of the Week: Posthumous Rachel Carson Edition | Power Line
As The Times’ Tina Rosenberg noted in a famous 2004 Times Magazine article entitled “What the World Needs Now Is DDT,” “in her 297 pages, Rachel Carson never mentioned the fact that by the time she was writing, DDT was responsible for saving tens of millions of lives, perhaps hundreds of millions.”
Bird Behavior Indicates Impending Human Demise - Menlo Park, CA Patch
Within the more pessimistic scenario modeled, in which sea level rises 1.65 meters by 2110 and little sediment is available, scientists predict a 150% decline in the populations of black rails, common yellow throats, song sparrows and marsh wrens.

1 comment:

Tucano said...

Silly me, I always thought that a 100% DECLINE was the maximum possible decline of a population. Climate change studies are full of non-intuitive insights!