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Biodiversity Crisis Is Worse Than Climate Change, Experts Say
ScienceDaily ^ | Jan. 20, 2012 | ScienceDaily

Posted on 01/21/2012 5:33:31 PM PST by dila813

Biodiversity is declining rapidly throughout the world. The challenges of conserving the world's species are perhaps even larger than mitigating the negative effects of global climate change. Dealing with the biodiversity crisis requires political will and needs to be based on a solid scientific knowledge if we are to ensure a safe future for the planet. This is the main conclusion from scientists from University of Copenhagen, after 100 researchers and policy experts from EU countries were gathered this week at the University of Copenhagen to discuss how to organise the future UN Intergovernmental Panel for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services, IPBES -- an equivalent to the UN panel on climate change (IPCC).

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TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: biodiversity; climatechange; globalwarming
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To: dila813

Btt


41 posted on 01/21/2012 10:57:34 PM PST by Cacique (quos Deus vult perdere, prius dementat ( Islamia Delenda Est ))
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To: dila813

Is it just me or when the Greenies scream CRISIS, I just ignore it. Everything is not a crisis but the liberal media has to state that it is over and over again.


42 posted on 01/21/2012 11:20:28 PM PST by SledgeCS (I will vote for Obama when he says "The F'ing MUSLIMS attacked the USA and are the enemy")
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To: SledgeCS

If we just raise taxes, all will be well...


43 posted on 01/21/2012 11:54:50 PM PST by JmyBryan
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To: dila813

Fukushima will fix this “problem”.

The number of mutations will rise.

The pace of evolution will quicken.

I’m not joking.


44 posted on 01/22/2012 5:34:28 AM PST by darth
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To: jimfree

——How is biodiversity measured? What is the correct amount of it?——

The correct amount is invertedly related to the amount of tax dollars that can be scammed By fearmongrering

To enviromental terrorist we have gained complete biodiversity when the human race no longer exists


45 posted on 01/22/2012 6:30:21 AM PST by Popman (Obama is God's curse upon the land....)
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To: dila813

This is gross abuse of the word “science”.


46 posted on 01/22/2012 7:07:36 AM PST by RoadTest (There is one god, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus.)
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To: Carry_Okie

>>>Our twenty-year wildland restoration project on our property now hosts 357 vascular plant species, of which 245 are native. I defy the UN to find that kind of density in botanical species richness in any park, preserve, wilderness, or open space on the entire continent. I will happily challenge any expert they can produce.

PEOPLE are the best managers of habitat vitality because they induce prospective disturbance and manage predation at all levels of the biological pyramid. Excluding people in the name of “preserving nature” will necessarily lead to catastrophic system crashes and multiple extirpations, whether due to multi-predator systems or uninterrupted succession, guaranteed.>>>

Ditto on my little half-acre up here in Alaska. Folks are astonished at the diversity of plant and animal life in comparison to the relative low diversity of the surrounding boreal forest.


47 posted on 01/22/2012 1:52:01 PM PST by redpoll
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To: redpoll

Yep, the “natural regulation” policy of the Park Service means that nearly two thirds of wolf deaths in Denali NP are due to cannibalism.


48 posted on 01/22/2012 1:56:33 PM PST by Carry_Okie (The Slave Party: advancing popular indenture since 1832.)
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To: SunkenCiv

There are certain simple steps I would support. For instance, we could ban import and export of exotic animals as personal pets. The trade decimates populations in some cases, and destroys other ecosystems in others. Burmese Pythons don’t belong in Florida.


49 posted on 01/22/2012 11:11:47 PM PST by rmlew ("Mosques are our barracks, minarets our bayonets, domes our helmets, the believers our soldiers.")
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To: billybudd

by that chart Biodiversity is going up exponentially


50 posted on 01/25/2012 12:28:47 AM PST by Steve Van Doorn (*in my best Eric Cartman voice* 'I love you, guys')
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To: billybudd

by that chart Biodiversity is going up exponentially


51 posted on 01/25/2012 12:31:44 AM PST by Steve Van Doorn (*in my best Eric Cartman voice* 'I love you, guys')
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