Posted on 02/16/2020 4:15:08 PM PST by Libloather
In 50 years, Billie Eilish will be turning 69 years old, technology will likely be unrecognizable, and the world may have lost 1/3 of all its plant and animal species. A new study has found that warming temperatures will likely cause hundreds of species to go extinct.
Researchers at the University of Arizona analyzed 538 plant and animal species from around the world, 44% of which already faced local extinctions in at least one area in the world. What they discovered is that the areas that suffered from species extinctions had "larger and faster changes in hottest yearly temperatures than those without."
Last month was the hottest January in the 141 years of climate record-keeping history, and scientists expect that 2020 will "very likely to rank among the five warmest years on record," according to a statistical analysis by NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information. The previous decade was the hottest on record.
Cristian Román-Palacios, one of the researchers, said in a statement that they also estimated how quickly populations can move in an attempt to escape increasing temperatures. They found that species can only tolerate increasing maximum temperatures to a point. If the maximum temperature increased by more than 32.9 degrees Fahrenheit, 50% of the species they analyzed suffered from local extinction. Areas where the temperature increased by more than 37.22 degrees Fahrenheit saw a local extinction rate of 95%.
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Will it get rid of rattlesnakes and buckthorn?
Kudos.........LOL
LOL, that’s brilliant.
LOL!
“And I have a feeling cows like us, too.”
Me too!
As a teenager growing up in a corn field in Indiana every once in awhile we would go talk to the cows. The whole herd would come over to stare at us and as we drove away all their heads would move in unison. Thought it was cute.
Eat up!!! Enjoy it while you can!
Its better these species die than be subjected to 50 years of Billie Eilish.
May.....or may not!!
Mencken was the GOAT.
Ferine definition is - feral
Arizona, we have a problem.
There are dangerous idiots running loose at the university!
I think you impressed the cows as someone out standing in their field.
When I was kid in those Reagan years the dire alarm-ism was that we are all going to freeze and oil will run out. These alarmists who were not even born in the 80’s now say we are all going to burn in a very short amount of time.
More catastrophizing:
"...The Limits to Growth (LTG) is a 1972 report[1] on the computer simulation of exponential economic and population growth with a finite supply of resources......"
None of this has come to pass, but the authors remain adamant the end is near, or will come soon. The get money and prestige from this dreck. Gloom and Doom is a big industry.
By and large, over the past century, overwhelmingly extinctions have been on small islands, and usually related to invasive species - though loss of jungle habitat occasionally has come into play.
Hottest...January.
“because we would all be dead.”
And that is what some of the earth first folks want.
Well, liberals are a stupid animal. Let’s watch and see if they go first.
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