[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.

[Celerity]

“human-caused climate change”

Wow, did I do that ? Did one of you guys do it ? Who did this ?

It must be someone out there who did this. Because I didn’t do it, and I don’t think you guys did it. But they say that humans did this.

So which humans are they talking about ? Who killed this mouse ?

The Holocaust was caused by humans. We know which ones too. doesn’t seem to stop us from growing new socialists.

[mbarker12474]

What “rising sea levels?”

Been to Atlantic City or Virginia Beach at various times in the last 80 years? The ocean is in exactly the same place relative to older buildings as it was 80 years ago.

You can look at the photographic evidence.

Erosion of shorelines by storms and volume capacity changes of smaller bays and rivers (silt accumulation, shifts in bottom layouts) does not equate to AGW. Or even GW.