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Originally Posted by Wowbagger
Well, you mean studies that show a decrease of biomass due to global warming?
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At the moment I'm not so concerned about the direction as scientific evidence that shows a correlation.
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You wouldn't find any. Global warming would have the opposite effect. This happens due to the increase of kinetic energy in the system, which leads to an increase of evaporation, and thus rainfall. And of course it also leads to a more tolerable climate in the hemispheres, with less restrictive winters.
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I agree the intuitive direction would be an increase, but if there were a confounding bias that suppressed the increase it would not increase.
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During the reign of the Dinosaurs, some 230 millions to 65 millions years ago, ecosystems underwent a phenomena of gigantism, which was only possible due to an increase of available energy.
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Not quite true. Gigantism is possible within a species as long as there is available energy to support it. This available energy may be freed by reducing population densities, which most likely was the case with the mega-fauna of the last ice age.