I'd like to be the first to welcome ... etc.
Posted on 06/08/2012 7:16:05 PM PDT by presidio9
A new study by 22 biologists and ecologists has found that environmental changes on our planet are reaching a point of no return that leads to mass extinctions and harms human welfare. The situation, said one scientist, “scares the hell out of me.” That would be James H. Brown, one of the authors of alarming paper published by Nature, talking to New York Times Green blogger Justin Gillis. Brown is not one of your everyday cranks predicting raptures and the end of days. He is a macroecologist at the University of New Mexico. And as The Atlantic's James Fallows, who pointed out this terrifying study to us, writes, this could be the most important news of 2012. How soon do these scientists expect the world as we know it to end? Gillis writes, "within a few human generations, if not sooner." The most frightening thing is that this finding isn't about what will come if we do not act, but that our effects on the planet's environment -- global warming, population growth, and overall resource extraction -- means that we've already passed a "tipping point." This isn't a plea for change. These are things scientists have been warning us
(Excerpt) Read more at theatlanticwire.com ...
Move over “climate change”, hello “extinction scare”.....
Chicken Little, Malthus, Erlich and this moron. Four peas in a pod-duh.
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Which end? This one, or, that one?
Then maybe we won't have to listen to these dipsticks anymore.
“22 biologists and ecologists has found that environmental changes on our planet are reaching a point of no return”
Which can mean only one thing: We MUST fund more research into these changes and hire as many biologists and ecologists that the Federal budget will permit as soon as possible and for as long a possible.
Survival depends on it!
OMG! It’s too late, there’s nothing we can do!
So just settle back and enjoy the ride.
Hand me the bong, I’ll drive.
It’s ok, OK, I don’t drink!
See tag line.
I say that the Oh NOES! Guys will soon visit this thread.
I say that the Oh NOES! Guys will soon visit this thread.
Algore will be all over this.
I wonder how much taxing, regulating, UN world-taxes will be needed to resolve this crisis...
I already saw the movie. Decent CGI tsunamis, but the acting sucked. Funny, how their predictions are just outside the lifespan of anyone that would be able to prove them wrong.
The world as we knew it ends every day.
I'd like to be the first to welcome ... etc.
There has been a population explosion of bullfrogs this year. I guess the mild winter allowed a lot more of them to survive. I don’t think I’ve ever heard so many as I do now.
Tell me about the glaciers coming back like they said in the ‘70’s. And Global Warming more recently until they changed it to Climate Change (That’s gone on for thousands of years) even more recently. And running out of oil till they found more. And coffee, that’s bad for you except now it’s not. And salt, what about salt which is now good for you.
And tell me about a real problem that comes up, why would we believe “them” when they tell us about it?
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