Report Seeks to Integrate Microbes Into Climate Models

Report Seeks to Integrate Microbes into Climate Models

Reference- http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/02/120214145337.htm

Summary- The models used to understand how Earth's climate works include thousands of different variables from many scientific including atmospherics, oceanography, seismology, geology, physics and chemistry. A few take into consideration the vast effect that microbes have in climate. The past two decades have witnessed an explosion in scientific recognition of the diversity of the microbial world. New DNA sequencing technologies spurred by the Human Genome Project. They have made it technically and economically possible to sequence the collective DNA from whole microbial communities. This approach is called metagenomics has revealed a previously undreamed-of degree of diversity in the microbial world.

Critique- Only a few consideration of the vast effect that microbes have in climate.

Impact- In the past two decades have witnessed an explosion in scientific recognition of the diversity of the microbial world.