Jim Fournier's blog

It felt like the end of the world at the time. The climate had spiraled out of control much faster than predicted. The Arctic ice was already gone in the summer, when a huge ice sheet collapsed sending off a tidal wave that flooded D.C. and left the ocean level six inches higher overnight. Only looking back on it now do we see it as the birth of a new world. (more)

Biologists calls the current loss of biodiversity "the 6^th Extinction." This is not the first time that life on earth almost exhausted its available resources before discovering how to jump to a higher order of complexity. Will we figure out how to make a similar transition? (more)