Lets de-industrialize in memory of the Yangtze Dolphin!
watta-buncha-hooey.
I think the air is out of the "global warming" sails - time to find a new threat!
Global warming is losing its luster, so they have to come up with something else. No mention of just how these species are dying off, just that there is a mass extinction going on. Wow, this never happened before in all of history, right? What a bunch of idiots the average person must appear to these slime balls that try to perpetrate all this nonsense in the hopes of making us all slaves.
"According to a consensus of the world's biologists, a mass extinction is unfolding or about to unfold on planet Earth," said David Ulansey of Massextinction.net.
massextinction.net?
Gee, no bias there....
YEC INTREP
Only 5-10 years before we are beset by global extinction? Hmmm. I thought that was the time frame we had before we were destroyed by global warming?
Anyone want to start a pool to wager on how long it will take these to loony groups to join and speak with one voice. Every time I read one of these stupid articles I am reminded of the cartoon of the man walking around the city wearing a sandwich board that says, "The end is near".
One of these millennium, these idiots are gonna be right!
Uhhh, actually most of the tantalum (the important part of coltan) is mined in Australia. Coltan is the tantalum bearing mineral in that part of Africa, but it is a minor source of tantalum.
A United Nations agency said the gorilla population has declined 90 percent over just the past five years, partly as the result of land being cleared for coltan mining.
Interesting move from 90% to partly. If 0.1% of that 90% is caused by mining, it is "partly" responsible. I've heard that the main cause for gorilla decline is the ebola virus.
And I feel fine.
I hope liberals are one of those threatened species.....
If it worries them that much I suggest they find a new line of work.
Some serious shaking and geo-earth changes predicted.
Some times I swear some of these "scientists" just disregard known history and just say things off the cuff. The biological sphere is in constant flux. The rate of extinction is extremely hard to estimate and many of the criteria for what constitutes a species is very flimsy. While I'm all for being a good steward of the environment and the animals and plants that live in it there is one simple fact that will not change no matter how much we wish for environmental and biological stasis and that is that the biosphere is constantly changing just as the climate is. Mass extinctions have occurred and what is interesting is that after such events explosions of biodiversity occur to replace those creatures that are lost. This is something that is still not understood.
The rate of species replenishment, if the fossil record is to be accepted, is much higher than should be expected given standard models of evolution but of course there are few willing to discuss this. Instead we hear more hysteria, hand wringing, and gnashing of teeth. What has led so many otherwise rational people to so need to overstate and search for an apocalypse?
The world would be a much better place if all the attention focused on these surreal catastrophic human contributed crisis on the natural world was channelled to solve problems like the starving people in the world - but why do that when if less humans were alive, the world will be a better place for animals.
My family who is not into the news as much as I am is so afraid of global warming, and I'm sure it won't be long before they are worried about all the animals dying. Then, of couse they will be resigned to agree to eat cloned meat. The left has created such a depressive fear that is totally unwarranted and unhealthy for this world.
Freepers will predictably crack jokes and write it off as leftist hysteria. The fact that leftist environmentalists can be hysterical and fascist does not mean that conservatives should completely ignore everything they have to say or accept as perfectly normal and tolerable the harm humanity is wreaking on global ecology.
Well, that's a relief!
I was wavering at the lastest bombshells about the Gore Dacha debacle and his carbon credits" company scam, and needed a new a new devil to haunt my sleep and a new set of apocalyptic priests to worship...
I don't want to guess, but it may be single digits...
I'll believe them when they spend all day walking around with sandwich signs... :)
It's a pleasure to see that we have dcided to stop demonizing Ann Coulter and get down to some serious business...
Anybody got thoughts on massextinctions.net and the half-dozen nutcases that run it?
Who funds them?
Which groups are they crosslinked to? ( prozac.net? )