Posted on 04/19/2024 1:59:20 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
BISBEE, Ariz. — Boots dusty, lungs heaving, Dr. John Wiens searched the boulders of a desolate Arizona mountaintop for the last survivors of a 3-million-year-old lizard population — then said the words that both confirmed his life's work and broke his heart.
"They're not there," he said. "It seems like the species is now extinct."
The loss of plant and animal species on Earth is happening at a speed never seen in human history, according to the United Nations. That includes the likely extinction of the lizards Wiens has studied for 10 years — the population of Yarrow's spiny lizards found in the Mule Mountains of southern Arizona.
"There's a lot of species on Earth, and we're going to lose a lot of them because of climate change," said Weins, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Arizona. "It's catastrophic."
"As human beings, in the developed world, we all sort of have some responsibility for this," Wiens said.
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o, dear...
Seriously, of what benefit to mankind were these lizards?
Billions of animal species, and billions of plant life, have become extinct starting from eons in natural history.
Where were the climate scaremongers then?
Those scaremongers need to find a way to freeze the world in place, and stop all changes from happening. The only ‘species’ that needs to become extinct, is the climate-change scaremongers.
Isn’t extinction part of evolution?
Didn’t Br0nc0 Baa-ma promise fundamental change?
How in the eff does this clown know about these lizards from 3 million years ago?
My thoughts exactly.
10 years with 1 lizard...
Congress had 4 years with one Lizard.
Sun, sun, sun
Burn, burn, burn
Soon, soon, soon
Moon, moon, moon,
I will get you
Soon!
Soon!
Soon!
I’m the Lizard King
I can do anything.
“As human beings, in the developed world, we all sort of have some responsibility for this,” Wiens said.
Get back to me after you get those humans in China and India in line.
Arizona, I thought she was from Wyoming?
Is five imbeciles writing an article a record for the media?
That’s it. You all have to be depopulated now. What you fail to realize is that lizards and elitist scumbags are more important than you .
I miss the days when Glaciers were going to kill all life on earth!
Who *are* these people?
Probably eating bugs. Besides, God doesn’t have to justify His creative procrss to man.
Wiens is more likely a liar.
99.9% of the species that ever existed are extinct.
It’s climate change, not a couple of million people stepping on them as they walk across the border.
“Too hot for a lizard? Climate change quickens the pace of extinction”
If that were true there would millions of Democrats that would croak.
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