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Climate change has claimed its 1st mammal and more species are expected to follow
AccuWeather ^ | Adriana Navarro

Posted on 04/16/2019 3:12:44 PM PDT by EdnaMode

The Bramble Cay melomys, a rat native to Australia, is claimed to be the first mammal to go extinct from "human-induced" climate change. (Ian Bell, EHP, State of Queensland)

In late February, the Australian government recognized the extinction of the Bramble Cay melomys, and it is probably the first mammal to go extinct due to "human-induced climate change," or anthropogenic climate change, according to a report by Queensland scientists.

According to multiple studies published in peer-reviewed scientific journals, 97 percent or more of actively publishing climate scientists have arrived at the hypothesis that "climate-warming trends over the past century are extremely likely due to human activities."

(Excerpt) Read more at accuweather.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Local News; Science; Society; Weather
KEYWORDS: australia; bramblecay; bramblecaymelomys; cliamatechange; globalwarming; melomys; rat; rats
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To: setha

They identify as scientists!


41 posted on 04/16/2019 3:55:10 PM PDT by xp38
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To: EdnaMode

I’m giving up everything.


42 posted on 04/16/2019 3:55:23 PM PDT by Drango (A liberal's compassion is limited only by the size of someone else's wallet.)
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To: EdnaMode

Extinction is a way of life in nature. Tens of thousands of species went extinct before humans appeared on the scene. We may well go extinct ourselves some day, but not from human-caused climate change.


43 posted on 04/16/2019 3:55:42 PM PDT by Hootowl
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To: EdnaMode

“The Bramble Cay melomys, a rat native to Australia, is claimed to be the first mammal to go extinct from “human-induced” climate change.”

I didnt think there were any mammals NATIVE to Australia. They only have marsupials.


44 posted on 04/16/2019 3:56:26 PM PDT by Brooklyn Attitude (The first step in ending the war on white people is to recognize it exists.)
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To: EdnaMode

What will we do without this little creature!!!!!!!!! Oh the humanity!!!!!!!


45 posted on 04/16/2019 3:57:21 PM PDT by Midwesterner53
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To: EdnaMode

I'm introducing legislation to save the Bramble Cay melomys! And the Dodo!"


46 posted on 04/16/2019 3:57:57 PM PDT by COBOL2Java (AOC: The brain of a tea bisquit)
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To: Opinionated Blowhard
Good. I hate rats

This so-called rat species looks a lot like the common brown rat that is everywhere on this planet. (Rattus norvegicus) - Tom

47 posted on 04/16/2019 3:58:15 PM PDT by Capt. Tom
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To: teeman8r

That would be empirical evidence!!!


48 posted on 04/16/2019 4:01:27 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committee)
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To: EdnaMode

I have a rat problem in a mountain cabin, tried poison, sticky traps, spring traps nothing works. Who would have thunk it that all I had to do is turn up the thermostat a half a degree...


49 posted on 04/16/2019 4:03:59 PM PDT by American in Israel (A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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To: EdnaMode
Australia is well supplied with rats.

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

It appears their enviros pull the same trick as their US brethren by claiming tiny differences from region to region constitute a new "species." In the US that's used to invoke the Endangered Species Act to block development. In my neck of the woods that's been used to protect the Prebbles Meadow Jumping Mouse, which looks an awful lot like the critters that try to get into my house every winter.

50 posted on 04/16/2019 4:10:24 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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To: EdnaMode

Yup, they’re extinct, until they find colonies somewhere else.


51 posted on 04/16/2019 4:10:40 PM PDT by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: dfwgator

“Let me tell you about endangered species, all right? Saving endangered species is just one more arrogant attempt by humans to control nature. It’s arrogant meddling. It’s what got us in trouble in the first place. Doesn’t anybody understand that? Interfering with nature. Over 90%, way over 90% of all the species that have ever lived on this planet, ever lived, are gone. They’re extinct. We didn’t kill them all. They just disappeared. That’s what nature does. We’re so self-important, so self-important. Everybody is going to save something now. Save the trees, save the bees, save the whales, save those snails. And the greatest arrogance of all, save the planet. What?

-George Carlin”

I listen to that every ‘earth day’ and make sure my outside lights are on for an extended time.

‘Earth plus plastic...’


52 posted on 04/16/2019 4:12:23 PM PDT by BBB333 (The Power Of Trump Compels You!)
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To: EdnaMode

Do they actually expect intelligent people to believe this????


53 posted on 04/16/2019 4:12:24 PM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC....PATRIOTICALLY CORRECT!!!!)
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To: EdnaMode
"arrived at the hypothesis"

Are you f'ing kidding me?

Arrived at a HYPOTHESIS? A HYPOTHESIS? Are you KIDDING ME?

You don't ARRIVE AT A HYPOTHESIS.

54 posted on 04/16/2019 4:13:32 PM PDT by tinyowl (A is A)
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To: EdnaMode
If there are/were a significant and increasing number of extinctions, this would be very concerning - as it might be a bellwether for worse, and an indication that something is very wrong.

That said, this species of mouse lived/lives (if they are wrong about extinction) on a small island off the Great Barrier Reef. It remains unclear how this mouse wound up there, and might have initially come to this Cay via the previously existing land-bridge to the mainland. The disappearance of that land bridge occurred 10s of thousands of years ago.

The Cay itself is <15 acres in land area, and the mouse (which lived/lives on the vegetated part of this Cay) had a habitat estimated at ~5 acres.

So, this was/is one very tenacious mammal that may have been trapped on this Cay thousands of years ago after the land bridge was covered by ocean, and has struggled to survive on a small land mass for probably thousands of years. If they wanted to save this species, they could have relocated several to the New Guinea or Australia mainland and monitored them.

So, I personally feel wistful about this mouse species, that has fought so hard to survive, but I think it is outrageous for anyone in the scientific community to blame the loss of this species (if indeed it is lost - and I hold out hope for these tenacious little critters) on human activity.

55 posted on 04/16/2019 4:13:49 PM PDT by neverevergiveup
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To: caww

Good lookin’...

I wonder if any Freeper here would ‘hit it?’

Alas too late Laz...


56 posted on 04/16/2019 4:14:02 PM PDT by BBB333 (The Power Of Trump Compels You!)
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To: tinyowl

Yeah, this is one of the worst scientific “studies” ever conducted.


57 posted on 04/16/2019 4:16:19 PM PDT by EdnaMode
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To: GSWarrior
polar-bears-gloomy
58 posted on 04/16/2019 4:16:52 PM PDT by FrankR (Did I mention that NO Russian collusion was found...NONE....?)
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To: DanielRedfoot

Utter nonsense.

That Goebbels photo is appropriate.

Do these guys actually believe their own claims?


59 posted on 04/16/2019 4:19:18 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: Kozy

I had a neighbor once caught up in the Charismatic movement who wouldn’t use ant traps because she said they were God creatures and wouldn’t kill what God created!

The problem with religion today is too many have lost the common sense God gave them!


60 posted on 04/16/2019 4:28:10 PM PDT by caww
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