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

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

[Ketill Frostbeard]

93 rats on a 2 acre island are wiped out by cyclones and Scientific Geniuses are paid $22billion yearly to blame it on whitey's carbon footprint and killer farts.

[butlerweave]

I saw that movie , The Killer Shrews (1959)

[Ancesthntr]

Let them find and store some dead critters, and then clone them when the technology allows such for a reasonable cost in a couple of decades. We’ll bring back many other animals that way. It isn’t ideal, but it’ll work.

[Paladin2]

"polar ice melt"

Antarctic ice is increasing....

[knarf]

[Larry Lucido]

So the 2008 election didn’t result in lower sea levels after all?

[TalonDJ]

“Indeed, the team spent five months obtaining the necessary permissions for captive breeding from Australia’s governmental agencies “

And there is their problem. The whiny little bleeding hearts cared more about the bureaucracy. They could live trapped a dozen and been breeding them before any paperwork was done.

[bigbob]

Scientists who can’t keep track of a few tissue samples expect us to save the planet??

One day they’ll turn up, probably in the bottom of somebody’s gym locker, and they’ll clone up a mess of these rats and everyone will be happy again.

[red-dawg]

Why are these people "devastated"?

Is / was there some actual BENEFIT that the planet gained from it's existence?

It was the only thing on the island besides plants.

[Chgogal]

Damn Mother Nature! How DARE she! PETA better go their and protest!

[NorthMountain]

human-caused climate change

BULL$#!+!!!!

[left that other site]

They can have some of our ‘RATS.

[publius911]

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

Give it a rest.
Get a real job, guys!

Over 95% of all species ever existing on earth have disappeared--- or not... without your help!

Get a productive job and stop the unproductive whining.

[Anitius Severinus Boethius]

If Gaia wanted them to live, she would have evolved them better.

[Gaffer]

We must take the scholars and scientists who failed in their great gambit to save the mammal and make example of them as a sacrifice to the Rat God. Flay and Skin them as sustenance tribute for the hopeful reincarnation of the blessed rat mammals.

They were charged with a holy task and they failed. Nothing less than complete atonement via self sacrifice will suffice.

[Opinionated Blowhard]

This is a Bramble Cay melomy -- also known as a RAT.

[Billthedrill]

I have their little heads mounted on my wall. It was all the safari I could afford this year.

[Ketill Frostbeard]

I wonder how many are registered to vote?

[rawcatslyentist]

Aww, they were too late to breed more parasitic rats.

I'm sure there are some snakes or scorpions they could play with instead.

[To Hell With Poverty]

Right. Burocracy kills.