Global Warming's New Math

[David Morris]

Yep.  We'll still have dogs.

I highly recommend this Nova program, "Dogs Decoded."

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/nature/dogs-decoded.html

"Dogs Decoded" reveals the science behind the remarkable bond between
humans and their dogs and investigates new discoveries in genetics
that are illuminating the origin of dogs—with surprising implications
for the evolution of human culture. Other research is proving what dog
lovers have suspected all along: Dogs have an uncanny ability to read
and respond to human emotions. Humans, in turn, respond to dogs with
the same hormone responsible for bonding mothers to their babies. How
did this incredible relationship between humans and dogs come to be?
And how can dogs, so closely related to fearsome wild wolves, behave
so differently?

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xfsqnc_dogs-decoded-1-3_shortfilms

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8NGDT1oPkY&feature=related

On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 3:56 PM,  <kelber at mindspring.com> wrote:
> I do like to think that in the final showdown, the dogs, at least, would give us a sympathy vote.  Sure, they put up with a lot of abuse from us, but we often rub their bellies, and we like to play throw-and-fetch.  They mostly seem to like us.
>
> LK
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
>>From: David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com>
>>Sent: Jul 24, 2012 3:01 PM
>>To: kelber at mindspring.com
>>Cc: pynchon-l at waste.org
>>Subject: Re: Global Warming's New Math
>>
>>It is unlikely that we humans will extinct ourselves.  More likely
>>human civilization will recede to remote pockets of the most habitable
>>portions of the planet, but not before countless human deaths as well
>>as countless extinctions of less adaptable/mobile species, a tragedy
>>of great proportions.  For the future viability and evolution of
>>Earth's non-human inhabitants, it would be better if humans did
>>vanish.  Maybe another sentient species would arise, probably to F-up
>>everything all over again.
>>
>>David Morris