Environmental Changes and Their Impacts on Life: A Paleontological Approach

The “Fossil Earth” We – meaning the whole living humankind – are facing a fast climatic change that is a harbinger of forthcoming dismal days (IPCC, 2014). Yet, we have a hard time at agreeing on what should be done to limit the effects of this change, as reflected by the resounding failure of the 2009 Copenhagen summit on climate change. Over the years, climatologists have refined their prospective scenarios based on ever more elaborate virtual climatic modellings, and they have convinced mo...