[NormsRevenge]

Caution: "critical transition" in progress. Please remain seated.. while the Titanic levels out.. Study money must be getting tougher to come by these days.

[NormsRevenge]

It’s all about timing.. Rio+20 media propaganda filler

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2 years of research

Barnosky, who tracks longtime changes in the fossil record, and 22 other scientists spent two years in conferences and research to produce their review. It is timed for a U.N. conference on sustainable development - known as the Rio+20 Conference - that is scheduled for Rio de Janeiro from June 22 to 24. The conference will mark 20 years since the first “Earth Summit” at Rio, involving delegates from 172 governments, produced the first international conventions on climate change and biodiversity.

[cripplecreek]

Tell it to someone who isn’t having 40 and 50 degree nights in June.

[AU72]

The fringe left is losing influence everywhere and their flop-sweat is obvious do those who can see.

[rcrngroup]

Unchecked population growth, the disappearance of critical plant and animal species, the over-exploitation of energy resources, and the rapidly warming climate are all combining to bring mounting pressure on the Earth's environmental health, they say.

Scientists from five nations, led by UC Berkeley biologist Anthony Barnosky, report their analysis Thursday in the journal Nature.

As soon as these RAT bastard socialist eco-environmental idiots get rid of any motorized vehicle, shut off all the electricity, running water, natural gas or fuel to their house, double up or triple up the number of occupants of their house, THEN they can make their point that they are trying to save the planet. Until they put their actions where their forked tongues reside, they can just STFU.

The 2nd disqualifer of these RAT turds and their whole bogus study? UC Berkeley biologist Anthony Barnosky. I wouldn't trust this RAT turd, liberal, progessive, socialist, marxist, fascist, commie pig any further than I could throw his phat elitist ass!

[canuck_conservative]

Once again, Science is not a consensus.

Before 1903, the “consensus” was that heavier-than-air craft could not fly. That view was even solidly guaranteed by Britain’s greatest living scientist at the time, Lord Kelvin.

How’d THAT consensus work out??

Let’s deal with all the facts here, including the one that human civilization has thrived only during warm periods.

[SoldierDad]

Tomorrow’s high temperature in Chico, CA is forecast to be 82 degrees. Normal is 87 degrees. The record high was 106 in 1973. Last year on 6/8 the high was 79 degrees. Something tells me that these globull warming chicken little’s are full of something which has a horrid smell.

[chris37]

Good deal.

Hopefully it kills democrat scientistics first.

[StormEye]

"The Earth is reaching a "tipping point" in climate change that will lead to increasingly rapid and irreversible destruction of the global environment unless its forces are controlled by concerted international action, an international group of scientists warns."

That's right people -- believe it!
But this damage to Mother Earth's environment can be stopped by:

• Rescinding the Bush tax cuts
• Increasing income taxes
• Paying more taxes on everything we buy
• Higher taxes on gasoline and petroleum products
• voting for Barack Obama this November
• Getting rid of Nuclear power
• Stop drilling for oil
• Getting rid of the internal combustion engine
• Stop eating beef
• Stop having children. Abort them instead
• Oh, and more and higher taxes on everything

We can do it people
Yes We Can!

[Sgt_Schultze]

We know the Earth has been hotter in the past. We know concentrations of CO2 have been substantially higher in the past. Yet in those times of hotter heat and CO2ier CO2, the Earth’s equilibrium did not cascade irretrievably out of control. How do we know this? Because it isn’t out of control now. So if hotter hotness and higher CO2 did not trigger a point of no return in the past, today’s lower levels of each cannot.

[RetiredTexasVet]

The sky is falling, the sky is falling .... says the Dr. of Global Warming.

[aruanan]

The most recent of those was the sporadic end of the last ice age that began 14,000 years ago and shifted rapidly from warm to cold and then back to warm again over a few thousand years. That period saw the extinction of half the world's large animal life, and then the spread of an expanding human population to every continent on the planet.

As though all those large animal species evolved to their then-current glacial period size over a measly 100,000 or so years since the previous (and increasingly warmer) past four interglacial periods. Those large land mammals got fried by radiation from a huge zeta-pinch aurora (see PDFs number 15, 18, 24, and 25 at link) about 12,000 or so years ago.

[UCANSEE2]

They likened the potential impact of the forces to previous major changes - both gradual and abrupt - in the planet's history that triggered mass extinctions and expansions, and produced completely new worldwide environments.

They say that like it's a bad thing (to quote about twenty different Freepers).

Besides, it just how EARTH works. Adapt or die. All the money in the world cannot change it.

[Stosh]

Anybody who follows this stuff consistently can tell you we reach this “tipping point” every couple of months - and more frequently if there’s a “climate change” conference coming up.

For example, from a news story on the “United Nations Climate Change Science Compendium Report” (UNEP) right around the time of the Copenhagen conference: “The UNEP 2009 report indicates that climate tipping points, which will result in irreversible accelerating changes to the planetary ecosystem, have already been been reached and possibly surpassed.”

So apparently we’ve already been there, we are now three years into being doomed, and there’s not much point in losing a whole lot more sleep over it.

[Paladin2]

"Unchecked population growth"

Well, all those concerned with large C footprints here in the US should seriously consider merging themselves with the Universe to save Gaia.

[Da Coyote]

Bull Obama!!!

[bigred44]

I guess it’s all over for Earth. I think we should chip in to send these scientists to colonize a planet where global warming is in check: Mars.

I’m in for 100 bucks.

[Vendome]

AaaaaaahhhhhhhhHHHH!!!!!!!!

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

THe Moslem extremists and religious fanatics, aided by the Communists, are doing their damnest to lower the world’s population. Funny. I don’t here the envirowackos complaining about this genocide.

[UnwashedPeasant]

"The Earth is reaching a "tipping point" in climate change"

Didn't the Left say this in the 1970s about global cooling and the coming ice age?

[Chgogal]

Does that mean no more Ice Ages?

Yippee, if so.