They made another mistake in "How Earth was made".
They pointed out that in 15,000 years we will have an ice age.
It pointed out global warming as a time for life to flourish like in the era of dinosaurs.
In a conference I attended with PhD Lara Hansen, biologist and toxicologist who works for WWF in the climate change area, she pointed out that trees in Canada are already dying because of global warming, and that is hurting wood industry.
When I talked to BBC director Nicolas brown pointed out that what he saw around the world made him to worry. Amazon forest rivers getting dry and having wild fires.
So if life will flourish probably History Channel wants cockroaches to live forever.
Well, trees in Canada are made for cold weather, so naturally you'd expect them to have issues if it got warm (like puting a salt water fish in a fresh water tank).
However, I can't say I'd shed a tear if every single old-growth logger died of starvation. Any time I saw those bastards getting hurt on Extreme Loggers I cheered. If they were real tree-farms, that's a different story, but many are too busy hacking down nature to make or work farms.
But they do have a point about warming. The dinosaur age was about the warmest there was, and life not only flourished, it was HUGE (as a result). The abundant plant life led to elevated O2 levels and giant arthropods as a result (Spiders as big as large dogs or bigger, centipedes that could rear up and stare a 6 footer in the eye, Dragonflys that could carry a Husky away for dinner, etc).
Life today is set up for the current climate, as it changes, there will be a dieing off as evolution takes place. That is inevitable.
One other way to look at it - where is life more teeming, in the tropics, or at the poles?
One other wild card is man's ability to change and destroy it's host, just like the virus Agent Smith likened us (accurately) to. That will wreak havoc on the natural order of things and throw the balance out potentially impeding the evolutionary transition. And don't forget the single biggest aspect now too - touchy-feely-ness combined with 24/7 news and measuring. Every little thing will get blown way out of proportion and turned into a crisis, even when it's not. (nobody cared when we came out of the little ice age, mostly because nobody really knew, or had the means to spread the info - or really had time to worry about it, they were too busy trying to live lol)
