Biodiversity boomed during global warming - UPI.com

DENVER, Aug. 7 (UPI) -- A global warming span from 53 million to 47 million years ago strongly influenced the biodiversity of western North America, geologists said.

The warming spurred a biodiversity boom of plants and animals, the researchers reported this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

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It is difficult to do scientific research for a boss who thinks climate change studies are just a plot to raise his taxes.

Peggy Noonan: ‘You Are Terrifying Us’ - WSJ.com

And so the shock on the faces of Congressmen who’ve faced the grillings back home. And really, their shock is the first thing you see in the videos. They had no idea how people were feeling. Their 2008 win left them thinking an election that had been shaped by anti-Bush, anti-Republican, and pro-change feeling was really a mandate without context; they thought that in the middle of a historic recession featuring horrific deficits, they could assume support for the invention of a huge new entitlement carrying huge new costs.