[1010RD]

...current estimates [of extinction] are overblown... but, Many species are still going extinct because humans are destroying and disrupting their habitats.

Good and short article once again demonstrating that design of experiments is weak when mingled with funding and political agendas.

[1010RD]

Of potential interest to your list, when you wake up. ;-]

[PROCON]

We don't even know how many species actually exist, though it is known that biodiversity is declining drastically.

Brilliant deduction "scientists/experts", good to know your on top of things.

"Biodiversity".....how I hate that word, too close to diversity!

[occamrzr06]

overturn dogma on how fast species are disappearing.

There is no money for species that aren't dying.

Conflict of interest, but hey, that's science!

[hinckley buzzard]

Time to remind people that "extinction" does not mean what you think it means. You think "extinction" mean there are no more individual members of a species left on earth--that they are gone, kaput, like the dodo and the passenger pigeon.

This is not what 'extinction' means in the all important politicized scientific slum-world of the environmental wackoes. In that feeble twilight world of assholery, "extinction" means that a local population has disappeared--like from a river, say, or a valley. The same animal/plant may be flourishing a few miles away but if they are no longer present in a given locale, then the envrio-nazis will say they are "extinct."

This, btw, is the language and definition of extinction used by the Endangered Species Act (ESA,) and is the reason these whorehouse versions of scientists get away with such lies.

You can look it up.

[lurk]

Are you saying that the leftist Greenies are lying?

Wow, that’s never happened before.

[brushcop]

Excellent article, it’s not science, it’s an agenda. Greenies always twist what little “data” to fit their agenda to control every aspect of our lives.

[wheresmyusa]

Biodiversity. Wherever that word appears in the context of a region, it is usually followed by a land grab.

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

THe only species I want to go into extinction are communists, islamis jihadists/fundamentalists, nazis, Democrats and liberals.

Not just on the Endangered Feces list - pure extinction. Darwin would approve.

[djf]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwOMoC40q6k&feature=related

Thylacine at about 48S.

Certainly carnivorous, doesn't look canine to me.

[dog breath]

I respect all thing that swim, creep, fly, and crawl upon this earth. I mourn the loss of any of the creator's works of living art. That being said, many of the species they are talking about are outside the borders of the United States, and not the concern of our government or our populace. If wealthy people want to save the rainforest more power to them, the Nature Conservancy accepts donations. As someone said the definition of extinction is also in question. For example I love the thought of wild horses running in the Pryor Mountains of Wyoming but if somebody shot every last one of them, there would still be horses in this world, but someone might write that the Pryor Mountain wild horse herd was extinct. Predictions of future events is an iffy proposition especially when dealing with biology. The source of many of these proclamations of eminent extinction are political in nature. Life has a way of surprising academics with its resiliency, so many of these articles are people making some noise to further their own careers.

[RJL]

A group of researchers agrees that Earth is facing a mass extinction event...

Let me guess... Massive new taxes and regulations covering every facet of the American peoples' lives will stop this "mass extinction event."

Has Al Gore dreamed up a new gig?

[UCANSEE2]

Uh.... Of all the life forms that have lived on the Earth, 99% of them have gone extinct.

When something goes, something else takes it’s place. New life is constantly emerging and adapting.

Some species may go extinct in a localized area. It’s hard to snuff out all of a species. But it will happen, and there is not much we can do about it.

Some species will vanish. No matter how much we try to prevent it. Might even be us.