Peter Ward on Earth's mass extinctions

PW Blessing and curse.

Peter Ward Yeah, every single cell in us can produce minute quantities of hydrogen sulfide in great crises.

Ward, P. and R. Myers, Shifts in open ocean fish communities coinciding with the commencement of commercial fishing, Ecology, vol. 86, no. 4, 2005, pp. 835 847. May 15, 2003, p. 280.

On 23 November 2004, Thich Quang Do was summoned to the Phu Nhuan Ward People's Committee (in Ho Chi Minh City) for questioning about appropriation of State secrets .

Asteroid strikes get all the coverage, but Medea Hypothesis author Peter Ward argues that most of Earth's mass extinctions were caused by lowly bacteria. The culprit, a poison called hydrogen sulfide, may have an interesting application in medicine.

Anti Zionism takes a nasty turn to anti Semitism when it conflates Jews with Israelis for example, when the British Liberal Democratic politician David Ward criticized the Jews for inflicting horrors on the Palestinians. And, while one can be skeptical about Zionism as a historical project, to deny Israel s right to exist is hard to distinguish from anti Semitism.

A recent study found that when longline catch rates are adjusted for soak time to take into account that most seabirds are taken during deployment of longlines and fall off or are taken by predators before the line can be retrieved estimates of mortality of some seabird species would rise by as much as 45 percent. (Ward, P., R. Myers and W. Blanchard, Fish lost at sea the effect of soak time on pelagic longline catches, Fishery Bulletin, 2004, vol. 102, pp.