Posted on 05/23/2019 11:45:13 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
A new UN report warns that “around 1 million species already face extinction, many within decades.” That allegation was contained within the 1,800-page Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) “Summary for Policy Makers,” released on May 6. If “decades” means 30 to 40 years, then the IPBES estimates an extinction rate of about 25,000 to 30,000 species annually.
Not only are there a lot of species in peril, they asserted that “the threat of extinction is also accelerating” and “most of the total extinction risk to species is estimated to have arisen in the past 40 years.”
The US House subcommittee on Water, Oceans and Wildlife convened a hearing on May 22 to review the contents of the report. Majority leader Jared Huffman (D) wasted no time in his opening remarks to make it clear that this was a politically driven hearing, not one necessarily searching for extinction truth. He contended “that despite the overwhelming evidence that we have an extinction crisis on our hands, the Trump Administration is going in the opposite direction to appease special interests and big donors.”
Fortunately, two of the six experts who were invited to testify presented damning evidence that completely contradicted the UN report’s findings of large and growing extinctions of species. Dr. Patrick Moore, Chairman of the CO2 Coalition and a founding member Greenpeace joined Marc Morano, Founder of Climate Depot in rebutting the findings of this latest climate apocalypse study.
Dr. Moore began his statement by reading a laundry list of former similar claims of looming extinctions, all of which have proven incorrect with the passage of time. He also noted that there have been less than 900 extinctions documented in the last 500 years according to the IUCN Red List, which catalogues every known species that has gone the way of the dodo and the carrier pigeon.
He went on to reveal that the IPBES report claimed that there were 8 million species on Earth, “yet only 1.8 million species have been identified and named. Thus, the IBPES believes that there are 6.2 million unidentified and unnamed species.” In what was likely the understatement of the day, Moore called that claim “highly unprofessional.”
In his opening remarks, Marc Morano launched a withering attack on the United Nations and its attempts to influence world opinion based on sometimes faulty science. He called the latest report “a very thinly veiled attempt to hype and distort biodiversity concerns” and, pulling no punches stated “it’s the latest UN appeal to give it more money, more power, more scientific authority and more regulatory control of the economy and peoples’ lives.”
In his written testimony, Morano relied heavily on a recent analysis that I wrote exposing the scientific dishonesty and data manipulation that the UN used to arrive at their outrageous claims of tens of thousands of extinctions per year. In my review of the UN report, I found that they had used the IUCN Red List to create an ominous and frightening chart of steeply increasing extinctions since the year 1500 AD. Closer analysis revealed that they had lumped the data into only five data points of 100 years each. My reevaluation of the data in ten-year increments showed a very different story, a significant and steep decline of extinctions since a peak in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Recall that the UN projections were for more than 20,000 extinctions per year beginning quite soon unless we change our evil ways and reduce our consumption of fossil fuels. The Red List data and my analysis revealed some very inconvenient facts about recent extinctions; in the last 40 years, the average annual extinction rate was two per year. Not 2,000. Not 200. Two. The most recent decadal data available was from 2000 to 2009 and only four extinctions were reported in that time frame.
This new extinction study is just the latest example of the rampant misuse and abuse of the scientific process designed to sow fear of an impending climate apocalypse. The fear and alarm over purported man-made catastrophes are needed to frighten the population into gladly accepting harmful and economically crippling proposals such as the Green New Deal.
Rather than an Earth spiraling into a series of climate catastrophes that threaten the planet’s life, we find that our planet and its estimated 1.8 million species are doing just fine, thank you.
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30-40 years, blah, blah, blah. How convenient! Who will remember this report by then? And who will call the retired or dead authors/researchers out when it doesn’t come true?
But the $$ will be allocate NOW — which is all that matters.
I miss snow in nyc. /s
Are Muslims on the list? Inquiring minds want to know?
Millions of species go extinct every year, and the UN, Greenpeace, and the Democrats can’t do anything about it. It’s just nature.
AS long as bacon is not on this list, I think it will be OK.
“I miss snow in nyc. /s”
We just drove back to the SF Bay Area from our place in Gardnerville, NV. Partly Cloudy and low 50’s in Gardnerville. We took Hwy 88 home ( Kit Carson Pass, elevation around 8,500 ft). As we turned west on 88 and started into the Pass, it began to snow. By the time we were to Kirkwood Meadow ( about 20 miles) the temp had dropped to 26 degrees and it was snowing quite heavily. Simply beautiful, but TG for 4WD! Just more of that “globull warming” we keep hearing about I suppose.
If the UN wants to continue ripping off the American people they need to deal with the PROBLEMS IN THE HERE AND NOW... and dump the crystal ball BS.
That’s some change! :)
Yeah I’m not worried about no more snow.
It’s not at the top of my list of concerns :)
You got a place in NV? That’s great :)
My car would just drive by the entrance to the house and go straight to the nearest casino :)
Were White Male European Christians included ?
Patrick Moore who was a Greenpeace founder and who talks against climate change madness in this article, also has a twitter account that I follow. You might enjoy it too, to help keep you up to date.
https://twitter.com/EcoSenseNow
Were White Male European Christians included ?
Never forget that socialists Marxists consider it very moral and correct to lie about the climate if it furthers their goal of socialism and Marxism. They consider their lies moral and just for a “greater good for us all.” Oddly they think they are moral. They are not moral and simply ideologues and worse.
Since 1917 Marxism’s greater good has resulted in the death of 110 million people. This does not include those killed by NAZI Germany which was socialist. NAZI is an acronym for National Socialist German Workers Party”, thus we need to add about another 20 million to the total death toll perhaps more.
Socialism and Marxisms kills. Socialism is just the first step to tyranny. When socialism becomes in control it is tyranny and indistinguishable from Marxism.
ps
I worked in Norway for a few years and they had achieved an oddly successful form of capitalism and social support socialism. Norway is actually very very pro business and pro capitalism. They realize that capitalism is the support structure for their social polices. Until the tax cuts on business we had higher taxes on businesses in the USA than in Norway. Their citizens have very high personal tax rates by choice. Oddly this works in a nation that has very common ancestory and ideals. Sweden once had this but is failing due to uncontrolled immigration that does not have the same value as the native Swedes.
I suspect it has changed now but in 1983 I did not lock my doors in Norway nor my car. I could walk a dark street in perfect safety. It was a grand nation then. I hope it survives.
Can we volunteer, gophers, red ants, fire ants, rattlers, vipers, cockroaches and palmetto bugs, termites, locusts and sharks for the soon-to-be-extinct list?
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