Science Snippets: Believing Incrementalism Led to Our Demise

The video embedded below is scheduled to Premiere on YouTube on Monday, 8 August 2022 at 12:00 p.m. Eastern time (noon). An online conversation will ensue shortly before, during, and slightly after the video is shown.

Professor Guy McPherson teaches an audio course in conservation biology. It is described and available for registration here

WGME News, 4 August 2022: Melting Arctic ice likely reason for unusual birds showing up in Maine

Charles Darwin, 1959: On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life

Scientific Reports, 13 November 2018: Co-extinctions annihilate planetary life during extreme environmental change

Biological Reviews, 10 January 2022: The Sixth Mass Extinction: fact, fiction or speculation?

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, 8 October 2018: Global Warming of 1.5º

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, 24 September 2019: IPCC Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate

Professor Guy McPherson teaches an audio course in Conservation Biology. Information and the ability to register here.

Latest peer-reviewed journal article appears in the prestigious Elsevier series of journals:

McPherson, Guy R., Beril Sirmack, and Ricardo Vinuesa. March 2022. Environmental thresholds for mass-extinction events. Results in Engineering (2022), doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rineng.2022.100342.