Those stupid “mouse-like rodents”. I prefer to feed all those non mouse-like rodents to my rodent-eating pet.
It's all a part of the circle of life. Extinction happens. It's a natural phenomenon. Besides, it was a rat.
They didn’t go extinct. Slartibartfast picked them up so they could have another go at Norway. Oh, the fjords!
I can’t wait to see all the Facebook memes bemoaning this horrible event to make us believe in global warming was caused by humans...
I’m not worried that the end of the world is coming. I don’t listen to liberal chicken littles.
Adapt or die.
Here is the question, what could puny little Man have done to prevent this?
Man can’t change the Climate (there’s the rub) or lower the Oceans, so the only thing that could have been done to save the Rats is to build a massive Sea Wall surrounding the Island.
Man is the only species on Earth capable of doing that.
“Nearly a million years” and in all that time there was NEVER a storm big enough to flood an island so very tiny? My ass.
When I was in school many years ago, we were taught that species go extinct all the time. Now we will find out that all extinctions from this point on will be due to man-made global warming.
Could be the birds ate them. Or the turtles. Best save the birds and turtles now since their food source is gone.
more fear-mongering environmentalist propaganda masquerading as scientific fact.
** yawns **
A rat! A friggin’rat! good grief...
The biggest tragedy I see here is that it wasn’t the Norwegian brown rat that went extinct.
Grant Money Gone....
“Of course, in an age of rising seas, more extreme weather, worsening droughts and polar ice melt, conservationists may also need to become even more vocal about dealing with the underlying cause of climate changes: burning fossil fuels. The longer global society goes without transforming itself, the more extinctions will become inevitable:”
Therein lies the purpose for the whole biased article.....al that hot air just to setup that one sentence rant for climate control.
This assumes humans are responsible, which they are demonstrably not! But it raises another question:
Charles Darwin's evolutionary theory is basically "survival of the fittest." Have any of you ever met a Greenie hypocrite who was not a Darwinist? I'll bet money if you asked the authors of this "study" they'd proudly call themselves Darwinists. Doublethink.
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"More than 99 percent of all species, amounting to over five billion species, that ever lived on Earth are estimated to be extinct."
And what’s more, I give even money that this rat probably lives elsewhere still.
More than 99 percent of all species, amounting to over five billion species, that ever lived on Earth are estimated to be extinct. Estimates on the number of Earth's current species range from 10 million to 14 million, of which about 1.2 million have been documented and over 86 percent have not yet been described.
That's a lot of "devastation" to take on, if you're going to be concerned about extinct species.
When I was a teen I used to be impressed reading about and seeing reports from the 50s, 60s, and 70s of how they reclaimed low lying Florida areas to make them some of the most vibrant properties in the world. If the sea levels are rising then why aren’t these places underwater again?
Hey guys, get a grip. The fact is 99.99% of all creatures, mammals or otherwise, that have ever inhabited this pale blue dot in the universe are extinct. And the remaining species, with the possible exceptions of alligators and hair lice, will become extinct at some point in the future. And, I would submit that the villain in all the previous extinctions was Mother Nature, as opposed to the evil, climate changing, human race.