摘要:Climate change is a favored subject
among disputatious individuals.
About its cause, proof of who is
right and who is wrong is certain
not to emerge between dinner and
breakfast.
The wonderful opera, “life,” is
staged on Earth amidst the splendid
scenery that is the biosphere.
Astonishingly, it is the orchestra of
living organisms—harmonizing the
laws of physics and chemistry, with
the aid of energy from the Sun—that
has built the edifice of the current
biosphere, across geological time.