UK Telegraph: 'Humans Could Evolve Webbed Feet if Sea Levels Rise'

newsbusters.org ^ | Jan. 13, 2016 | P.J. Gladnick

[PROCON]

Quack! Quack!

Be advised that the article you are about to read did not appear in The Onion. However, it is completely understandable if that is what you think because the story, which appeared in the U.K. Telegraph, takes Global Warming Alarmism to such an extreme that it has passed from the absolutely absurd into the completely hilarious. Just how laughable is the article? So funny that The Telegraph science editor, Sarah Knapton seriously quotes a (quack?) scientist proposing that the rise of sea levels could cause humans to evolve webbed hands and feet:

The perils of climate change are well known, but rising sea levels could also alter human evolution, scientists have claimed.

[PROCON]

And Gills!

Water World Alert!

[PROCON]

Bump, thanks PJ!

[lacrew]

Some people will actually worry about this, much more so than very real everyday problems. There is a certain escapism in worrying about apocalyptic global warming problems.

[Shadow44]

Can somebody slap them? For God’s sake the world is being run by idiots who think they’re geniuses.

[headstamp 2]

We will all grow rowboats from our asses too.

[PROCON]

"Look, it's Detroit!"

[DouglasKC]

I’m going to just stand on the coast and after a while I’ll be Aquaman.

[Opinionated Blowhard]

[agere_contra]

From the DT comments:

If it rains a lot more then can we also expect one of our arms to evolve into an umbrella?

and also

Will the ruling elites develop sticky fingers to count the rolls of cash?

[GraceG]

What a moron, we humans are designed to build tools to make the need for evolution obsolete.

[C19fan]

MERMAIDS!!! How come the Polynesians have not developed these traits?

[GraceG]

Also the idiot saying an ice age would make taller people due to cold, has he not noticed that Eskimos are SHORT!

What a moron idiot this so called scientist is.

[oblomov]

So they believe in Lamarckism? Are they against science?

[Bratch]

[dfwgator]

“All my life I’ve been waiting for someone and when I find her, she’s... she’s a fish.”

[stars & stripes forever]

Junk science gone awry.

[blueunicorn6]

And vegetarians will turn into cows.

[PROCON]

Well, they may turn into manatees. :-)

[aquila48]

Bookmark.

[Dr.Deth]

Eh, they've been around for a while.