Posted on 03/16/2023 6:44:33 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
The preservationist group NatureServe just released a report concluding that some 40% of animal species in the US will go extinct in the near future as a result of climate change.
Their predictions may turn out not to be quite accurate, since there are other factors at work that determine which species survive and which go the way of the dodo bird and ivory-billed woodpecker. The analysis the report depends on has been severely criticized for lack of rigor by Canadian and Finnish biostatisticians. Anticipated losses among a small percentage of already dangerously endangered species is applied to the vast majority of U.S. animal populations showing no signs of diminishing in numbers. The polar bear, to the contrary, has recovered dramatically from a low of less than 10,000 adults in 1975 to more than 30,000 in the most recent surveys.
Nature is a harsh taskmaster. Climate is always changing, but at a differing pace at various times and places across the globe. Rapid changes will put severe stress on species lacking adequate genetic resilience and a deep enough gene pool.
Changes in physical conditions (weather extremes and habitat alteration) force species to adapt to new conditions or go extinct. Geographic isolation often leads to new species evolving from and replacing a parent group. Few old-time species and genera can trace their existence back in time a million years.
The report found "habitat degradation and land conversion, invasive species, the damming and polluting of rivers and climate change” as the primary factors forcing susceptible species toward the brink of extinction.
Yet it is impossible not to sense ambivalence after reading through the conclusions. There are species under duress that would find themselves threatened whether or not man had ever settled in North America.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
From 2 degrees Fahrenheit? I think not. But gimme my grant money and I’ll look further into it.
Over 90% - over, WAY over – 90% of all the species that have ever lived on this planet, ever lived, are gone! Pwwt! They’re extinct! We didn’t kill them all, they just disappeared. That’s what nature does. They disappear these days at the rate of 25 a day and I mean regardless of our behaviour. Irrespective of how we act on this planet, 25 species that were here today will be gone tomorrow.
Let them go gracefully. Leave nature alone. Haven’t we done enough?
We’re so self-important.
So self-important. Everybody’s 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? Are these people kidding me? Save the planet, we don’t even know how to take care of ourselves yet. We haven’t learned how to care for one another, we’re gonna save the planet?
-George Carlin
Just another NGO doing some fundraising. I guess donations are down recently.
If you go and consider meteor impacts, and massive tsunamis action...the Earth has continually lost the bulk of it’s animal species on a regular basis...yet seems to rebound.
The only explanation can be some alien ‘friends’ reseed the Earth. Not trying to be a comic or on the ‘far-side’, but some things cannot be rationally explained.
As long as cows, pigs and chickens survive I’m okay with it.
Just one more subject I chided my wildlife biologist co worker at the blm over.
He’d throw numbers around about endangered and I’d ask him
” when DID you count ALL of them ? “
Spit.
Lazy lying shysters virtue signaling with their phoney love of animals and muver erf.
Voila, here is your daily dose of climate change fear porn. This particular “claim” has been around for quite a while.
The best way yo save species is to exterminate NatureServ.
NatureServe is a detriment to society and should be eradicated at the earliest possible moment
Another good one to shame them with
” I thought you didn’t believe in God and creation but believed in evolutions survival of the fittest ? Then why are you fighting it ? Let them go extinct so the world can continue to evolve ! “
There is no doubt we are effecting the biosphere. Yet I don’t see how it’s all on climate change.
There is an overall decrease in populations of insects, birds, amphibians, reptiles etc but we’ve only seen say a 1.5f degree difference in heat. Which means the same as moving from N to S about 150 miles. Our family property (parents still live there) is about 120 miles from where I live so it’s close to that 1.5f difference as they are due south. I know for a fact the plant and animal species are nearly identical to here and 1.5f probably is easily within the normal temperature fluctuations of year to year.
So if the critters and plants can live happily south of me 150 miles where it’s 1.5f * warmer why can’t they live here if climate has made it 1.5f warmer???
I think it’s more likely chemical pollution of some sort: neonicotines and other pesticides , degrading plastics giving off various hydrocarbons, herbicides …who knows.
Democrats are a different species so there’s that.. plus all the alphabet nonsense we should be fine.
Can we vote for which we want gone. I am voting for Stinkbugs and Japanese Beetles.
I want a Grant so I can study how great the world would be if we eliminated all these doomsayers. Should be profitable as easy to prove.
Lose 40% of our species?
This very much depends on the meaning of “our.”
As long as cows, pigs and chickens survive I’m okay with it.Can we add a tick-extinction event to your conditions?
Well, until scientists actually get together and agree on a definition for the word “species”, no, we are not going to lose a single “species”, since the concept is essentially meaningless.
Because ....
1. There's lies, there's damned lies, and there's statistics, and ...
2. On a sufficiently long timeline, everyone and everything's chances of survival falls to zero (whole species included).
There will come a day when we will go extinct too.
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