04/02/08 Global Warming

Too bad the Woolly Mammoth didn't have Al Gore around to take up their cause 6000 years ago. Scientists are finally starting to come to agreement on how the demise of the Woolly Mammoth really came about. Seems that it was a combination of climate change and human hunting practices. Global warming had shrunk the mammoth's habitat to the point that when humans encroached on their territory the species were already nearly extinct. And true to human fashion, even that of 6000 years ago, we unabashedly finished them off. Global warming and cooling trends have been a constant from the time our world began. Only now we have the technology and hopefully the foresight and wherewithal not to repeat the pattern. Let's not let the polar bear, arctic fox, and many other species too numerous to mention here, go the way of the Woolly Mammoth. It has to be more than goodwill and good intentions on the part of mankind. The road to extinction seems to be paved with good intentions.