‘Devastated’: scientists too late to captive breed mammal lost to climate change

TheGuardian.com ^ | June 29, 2016 | Jeremy Hance

[fireman15]

This entire article is complete nonsense. It illustrates only the complete incompetence of a government agency to accomplish anything worthwhile despite spending unimaginable amounts of money on a non-existent problme. There are for more species of rodents that have gone extinct than exist today. This is an every day occurrence and has in this case has nothing to do with “global warming”. The form of “climate change” that causes most mass extinctions is called an “ice age”. If we are very fortunate the current interglacial (period of time between ice ages) will continue for another thousand years, but the clock keeps ticking. Just ten thousand years ago the place where we live (in the foothills outside of Seattle) was under thousands of feet of ice.

[V_TWIN]

“Of course, in an age of rising seas, more extreme weather, worsening droughts and polar ice melt, conservationists may also need to become even more vocal about dealing with the underlying cause of climate changes: burning fossil fuels. The longer global society goes without transforming itself, the more extinctions will become inevitable:”

Therein lies the purpose for the whole biased article.....al that hot air just to setup that one sentence rant for climate control.

[Bernard Marx]

The longer global society goes without transforming itself, the more extinctions will become inevitable.

This assumes humans are responsible, which they are demonstrably not! But it raises another question:

Charles Darwin's evolutionary theory is basically "survival of the fittest." Have any of you ever met a Greenie hypocrite who was not a Darwinist? I'll bet money if you asked the authors of this "study" they'd proudly call themselves Darwinists. Doublethink.

[Bitsy]

suicide watch?

[Karl Spooner]

I wouldn't worry too much about it.

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"More than 99 percent of all species, amounting to over five billion species, that ever lived on Earth are estimated to be extinct."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extinction

[HiTech RedNeck]

And what’s more, I give even money that this rat probably lives elsewhere still.

[Repealthe17thAmendment]

From the Wikipedia:

More than 99 percent of all species, amounting to over five billion species, that ever lived on Earth are estimated to be extinct. Estimates on the number of Earth's current species range from 10 million to 14 million, of which about 1.2 million have been documented and over 86 percent have not yet been described.

That's a lot of "devastation" to take on, if you're going to be concerned about extinct species.

[TangibleDisgust]

these are the same people who go to 3rd world nations in Africa when there is a famine, take photos of dying children, do NOTHING whatsover to render assistance, and then come back to the USA to wag their fingers in our faces telling us we're responsible for the deaths of those children.

they don't actually want to fix any problems, they just want to assign blame to their political enemies, while wearing their activism as badges on their sleeves while doing the Manhattan cocktail party circuit to brag about how worldly they are.

they are all lousy human beings and deep down, they know it.

In March 1993, photographer Kevin Carter made a trip to southern Sudan, where he took now iconic photo of a vulture preying upon an emaciated Sudanese toddler near the village of Ayod. Carter said he waited about 20 minutes, hoping that the vulture would spread its wings. It didn’t. Carter snapped the haunting photograph and chased the vulture away.

so he watched for 20 minutes, hoping to get a better shot for the NYT, instead of rendering any sort of meaningful assistance. no wonder he committed suicide months later... the guilt must have been overwhelming - as it rightfully should have been.

https://iconicphotos.wordpress.com/2009/08/12/vulture-stalking-a-child/

[HiTech RedNeck]

Yeah, why is this “Darwin” so incompetent that he can’t crank out more new species as the old ones go?

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

When I was a teen I used to be impressed reading about and seeing reports from the 50s, 60s, and 70s of how they reclaimed low lying Florida areas to make them some of the most vibrant properties in the world. If the sea levels are rising then why aren’t these places underwater again?

[HiTech RedNeck]

Vulture had more patience than he did. “Hey kid, die. Then we can have lunch.”

[immadashell]

The loss of this little island survivor is tragically irreversible...

Hey guys, get a grip. The fact is 99.99% of all creatures, mammals or otherwise, that have ever inhabited this pale blue dot in the universe are extinct. And the remaining species, with the possible exceptions of alligators and hair lice, will become extinct at some point in the future. And, I would submit that the villain in all the previous extinctions was Mother Nature, as opposed to the evil, climate changing, human race.

[Ketill Frostbeard]

Looks like fun ;)

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qTlIBdTRB18

[yuleeyahoo]

Funny, I don’t miss them.

[HiTech RedNeck]

A lot of the problem is those blankety blank GOVERNMENTS over there. Try to bring food to feed the dying kids, and they, at best, will skim almost all of it off the top for themselves in their fat cat palaces.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Also how do they know that this rat never hitched a ride somewhere else and set up another home?

[mountainlion]

It seems to me that “Climate Change” is designed for the financial extinction of FREEDOM

[HiTech RedNeck]

The pictures wouldn’t even be so bad if they would just document the whole scenario.

Maybe he did arrange for the kid to be fed, but not on camera, for all we know. Lest he get in trouble with, again, those blankety blank governments.

[treetopsandroofs]

“They can have some of our ‘RATS.”

I say ALL, and do Botany Bay II (not the spaceship).

[Iron Munro]

Because no animal species ever went extinct before the advent of the “hockey stick” and the invention of man made global warming and climate change.