From: "Phil Payne" 

> More research needs to be done, but that is not outside the realm of
> possibility.  We've had 95% mass extinctions just because the temperature
> went up 10F.  It may not be the most likely scenario, but ignoring it
would
> kill it if it happens that way.  Moving inland wouldn't save us in that
> case.

What we could survive is only part of the question.  We are at the head of
a number of food chains, and the whole chain (including ruminant gut
bacteria and other prosaic things) has to survive for us to survive.  A
chain is only as strong as its weakest link.

IMO all extinction analyses I've so far seen have been simplistic in the
extreme.  Only the availability of a primary food source has been
considered.

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