"You have a seismic shift in the SBC," says Wade Burleson, an Oklahoma pastor whose "Grace and Truth to You" blog is a rallying point for the neo-Calvinists.
Krech also contradicts Martin's exclusion of climatic change as an explanation by asserting that widespread climatic change did indeed occur at the end of the Pleistocene.
Which is good news only if you like this summer's oil spill, mountaintop removal mining, catastrophic climate change and the ongoing transfer of wealth from the U.S. to oil-producing countries.
Long-term effects are primarily mediated by changes in tree species composition and the consequent alterations of forest structure, productivity, and nutrient uptake.
"We had to find a rock that had just enough iron to record a magnetic signature, but not so much that it would be affected by later chemical changes," Tarduno says.
It is this that recommends variety, where the mind is every instant called off to something new, and the attention not suffered to dwell too long and waste itself on any particular object.
Such changes are all but invisible over the short time scale of modern observations, and, it is argued, they are usually obscured by innumerable gaps in the imperfect fossil record.
Action to restore appropriate price incentives, notably through corrective carbon pricing, is urgently needed to lower the risk of irreversible and potentially devastating effects of climate change.
While the government's commitment to long-term funding may have changed, the very pressing need for more affordable housing is real and is not going away.