Scientists try to determine whether life on Earth is quickly heading toward extinction
Life on Earth is hurtling toward extinction levels comparable with those after the dinosaur-deleting asteroid impact of 65 million years ago, propelled forward by human activities, according to scientists from UC Berkeley.
This week, scientists announced that if current extinction rates continue unabated, and vulnerable species disappear, Earth could lose three-quarters of its species as soon as three centuries from now.
This is crazy talk. Everyone starved to death more than a decade ago!
How many millions of $ did it take the think tank to come up with this?
What has happened to science….
All these people can do is follow trends.
The way we are going we’ll be living in caves
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/sunday-telegraph-at-50/8306153/Sunday-Telegraph-at-50-what-will-the-world-be-like-in-another-50-years.html
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Funny cartoon
Go ahead and go extinct. Just don’t include the rest of the world. but see a competent physician first.
Nothing new announced really. Most species on this planet have gone extinct. With or without man’s CAGW….
But I do like the prediction, well beyond when they have to account for whether they were right or not…
I predict that sometime in the future the earth will enter another ice age…(can i get a $ grant for this?)
Obviously all life on earth including the “vulnerable species” that are around today some-how dodged that asteroid impact of 65 million years ago, in fact the “vulnerable species” that are still alive today, Ironically seem to be in danger from the only species in the known universe who are trying to protect them, and their habitats.
Personally, I don’t believe people go out of their way to bring life hurtling toward extinction, are there any people on earth actively trying to wipe-out “vulnerable species”? what about all the human activities that species benefit from and depend on?
There is a lot of speculation that I can dream up about three centuries from now, after all I’ve been reading, watching and learning about the future possibilities since I was a kid, but the possibilities we learned about were far more inspirational than what the half-wit creeps who pass them selves of as educated people today come up with.
It must be so depressing for a child of school age exploring the world around them to be told that their future is doomed and that they are the reason why the planet will be destroyed,
“the earth is warming”, “the forests are being destroyed”, “seas are rising”, “the Ice caps are melting”, “climate disruption”, “Co2 is a pollutant”, “the earth is over populated”, “Life on Earth is hurtling toward extinction”, Etc…
All of this is the complete overdrive of blind unscientific ignorance in eco-anthropology and the lying-overkill of an unhealthy ideological obsession, being exposed to this kind of constant hateful ridicule of people can’t be a healthy thing.
hear hear Sparks. The effects of this negativity on our young can’t be good.
I wonder what it’s product would be.
Could it be that hooded kid in that video threatening adults. (sorry no link)
Could it be the 10/10 type violence of blowing people up?
Could it be the violence we see on a Friday Saturday nights?
On the one hand, the pinko commo leftards wrap kids in cotton wool, reward them for failures etc, on the other hand brainwash the same kids into believing the future is hopeless. sigh
Can we we please close down Berkley.
It has transformed into a mental institution.
What extinction rates? There aren’t any! They have nothing to point to – anywhere!
They make these up from computer extrapolations and old versions of Pac Man!
Now that we are $14 trillion in debt and counting (rapidly), isn’t it high time to defund “studies” of “scientists” who have obviously read way too many comic books and seen way too many sci fi disaster movies?
Now that Berkeley has decided not to take in those poor misunderstood Gitmo boys they have to focus on other issues of course, like pondering mass extinctions while sipping their Pete’s coffee.
Extinction rates………hmm….. last I looked, there were about 10 last century…..maybe. I’ll have to dig it out some where…….Paul Ehrlich and Berkeley……a match made in hell.
Ahh….here….http://listverse.com/2009/07/25/10-recently-extinct-animals/
He was on the BBC Science in Action program. I waited and waited, then was not disappointed. His first two reasons, from his own mouth were:
“There are too many people”
“Climate change”
I then turned the radio off in disgust. Why has UCB become a home to misogynistic maniacs who can’t objectively read science anymore? He probably said “computer models” somewhere too but by then I was furious and wasn’t listening.
Well, if it is any consolation, the misogynistic maniacs are prevalent throughout the world, we all have to deal with them.
Who says,”go forth and multiply?” Who says have as many kids as you can afford? Who says fetuses make better soldiers than abortions? Send your doomsday stuff to them. Remember that after the desperate Roman emperor Constantine assembled the first Bible to become the first real pope, he had to extort money out of the masses at spear point for 900 years. Doomsday you say? Picket the Vatican. Save bandwidth.