“The warming of the oceans led to profound ecological changes, including the widespread extinction of many types of foraminifera, tiny single-celled organisms with distinctive shells.”
The above quote, I believe, is one of the statements in the report with a very large and a most overlooked significance, particularly in the climate of the debates over “man-made” global warming.
Why?
Understand that there IS very large “chains” of some (varying) levels of interdependency of many life forms. Then reread the quoted statement, and then make a mental note of all the other periods of “mass” extinctions that science believes it has evidence for.
Then, remind yourself: LIFE, in the holistic sense WAS NOT EXTINGUISHED, it survived.
And, remind yourself further that if any species has the capability to adapt to “ecological change” it is humanity.
The global warming alarmists are on a political crusade, not a scientific crusade.
Nicely said!
And indeed, it already has. The thermal range of human habitation varies from the hottest jungles and deserts to and past the Arctic circle, far greater than any possible proposed thermal change model. And that range was established in far prehistory, without all the technological tools and knowledge we currently have available.