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Australian Rodent Is First Mammal Made Extinct by Human-Driven Climate Change, Scientists Say
New York Times ^
| June 14, 2016
| By MICHELLE INNIS
Posted on 06/15/2016 5:57:56 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
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posted on
06/15/2016 6:52:56 AM PDT
by
bigbob
To: Steely Tom
That's just what I was going to say. All these years they've been telling us that our nasty human impact drives hundreds / thousands of species to extinction. Now they're saying it's happened it "one" species?
I've got an idea. Let's "extinct" the smallpox virus. And Zika while we're at it.
Extinction is the engine of evolution!
What are ya? Against evolution?
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posted on
06/15/2016 6:59:02 AM PDT
by
Mrs. Don-o
(Death is a natural part of life. Rejoice for those around you who transform into the Force. - Yoda)
To: Steely Tom
Species come and go naturally and have done for millions of years. Painfully obvious to anyone with a brain.
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posted on
06/15/2016 6:59:26 AM PDT
by
Inkie
To: ManHunter
species that went extinct before humans arrived on the scene...?
Exactly!
Some species are meant to die out! By design.....
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posted on
06/15/2016 7:05:44 AM PDT
by
Uversabound
(Our Military past and present: Our Highest example of Brotherhood of Man & Doing God's Will)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
It's a rat ... probably deposited there when some ship ran aground back in the 1800’s.
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posted on
06/15/2016 7:06:03 AM PDT
by
BluH2o
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Why aren’t they hailing this as another feather in the cap of Darwin and a celebration of evolution? It’s adapt and evolve or die.
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posted on
06/15/2016 7:14:34 AM PDT
by
philled
(If this creature is not stopped it could make its way to Novosibirsk!)
To: ManHunter
Why, the white, homophobic, Christian God, who incidentally does not exist.
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posted on
06/15/2016 7:22:33 AM PDT
by
Alas Babylon!
(Fully accept and CELEBRATE gayness, or you are a homosexual mass murderer supporter.)
To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...
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posted on
06/15/2016 7:28:51 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(I'll tell you what's wrong with society -- no one drinks from the skulls of their enemies anymore.)
To: BluH2o
Don't atolls have life-cycles? With or without man?
Yes, there's a 99-44/100% chance a ship brought the rodent's antecedents.
To: null and void
I had to read it thrice before I realized: that TOTALLY rhymes!
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posted on
06/15/2016 8:07:59 AM PDT
by
T-Bone Texan
(Don't be a lone wolf. Form up small leaderlesss cells ASAP !)
To: ManHunter
well,second hand smoke killed off all the dinosaurs dontcha know.
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posted on
06/15/2016 8:11:02 AM PDT
by
old gringo
(a wise monkey never monkeys with another monkeys monkey.)
To: Steely Tom
Australian researchers say rising sea levels have wiped out a rodent that lived on a tiny outcrop in the Great Barrier Reef, in what they say is the first documented extinction of a mammal species due to human-caused climate change.Except that there is not such thing as "human-caused" climate change!
Climate change is effected by the Sun. The Sun is outside of the Earth.
Where do these people get the idea that man has anything to do with climate change?
They just made it up! Read Chicken Little, please and then take a vacation or a time out to think very hard about that story. Try to connect the dots.
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posted on
06/15/2016 8:19:30 AM PDT
by
olezip
To: G Larry
How do we know the “island ‘ didn’t sink somewhat???
To: SunkenCiv
The second mammal to be driven to extinction by global warming will be the independent human scientist with the skeptical mind.
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posted on
06/15/2016 8:47:20 AM PDT
by
Stosh
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Good. Then we don’t need it. Over 99.9% of all species that have ever inhabited this planet are extinct. Adapt or die.
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posted on
06/15/2016 8:49:22 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: Oldeconomybuyer
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posted on
06/15/2016 9:25:06 AM PDT
by
GOPJ
("9-in-10 GOP outsiders say 4-in-10 GOP insiderds should STFU". - Freeper RoosterRedux)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
One has to wonder how the mouse survived the last intra glacial warm period. Must be a population these idiots have yet to find.
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posted on
06/15/2016 9:49:43 AM PDT
by
justa-hairyape
(The user name is sarcastic. Although at times it may not appear that way.)
To: SunkenCiv
...a small coral cay just 340m long and 150m wide that's closer to PNG than the Australian mainland.
...the biggest threat is the population size itself. With just a single population of fewer than 50 individuals, genetic inbreeding is likely and could lead (or has already led) to extinction.
Australian Endangered Species
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posted on
06/15/2016 9:55:41 PM PDT
by
Fred Nerks
(Fair Dinkum!)
To: dead
On the other hand, The Pacific Green Turtles that breed there may be happy to have a rat free beach
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posted on
06/17/2016 10:07:44 PM PDT
by
Oztrich Boy
(Rules are for the guidance of wise men and the blind obedience of fools - Solon, Lawmaker of Athens)
To: Fred Nerks
That tower - is that where they placed the rat’s “Darwin Award”?
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posted on
06/17/2016 10:18:39 PM PDT
by
21twelve
(http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185147/posts It is happening again.)
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