If 40 species a day are going extinct, why are they still talking about passenger pigeons?
Global warming is said to be threatening thousands of animal and plant species with extinction. That, at least, is what the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has been predicting for years.
But the UN climate body now says it is no longer so certain. The second part of the IPCC’s new assessment report is due to be presented next Monday in Yokohama, Japan. On the one hand, a classified draft of the report notes that a further “increased extinction risk for a substantial number of species during and beyond the 21st century” is to be expected. On the other hand, the IPCC admits that there is no evidence climate change has led to even a single species becoming extinct thus far.
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h/t Bob H
Those making the claim are always hardcore evolutionists. If they really believe life evolved and wasn’t created, then this is all part of the process. And if they miss all those species that are going poof, just wait around a few billion years and they’ll clmb out of the primordial ooze to brighten your day.
The climate charlatans such as CBC’s fruitfly guy have done irreparable harm to science in general. It’s best to assume that they’re lying about everything that furthers their incomes.
The species-extinction card has been WAY overplayed. Good the IPCC is retracting yet another lie. It won’t get any press though.
Yeah, we should be concerned about species protection, but risks to species have NOTHING to do with climate…more about land use etc etc.
I have the “Birds of Canada” book, first published in 1962 (?) and I defy anyone to find one bird in it that has “gone extinct.”
Maybe I wrote this before. A few weeks ago I met with three lefty profs at the University of Lethbridge. One said that “robins are now found in the arctic” … as if this was something new because of AGW. The above-mentioned book shows the breeding range (ca 1950s) to be well into the Arctic and above the Arctic Circle.
They don’t have a clue and they teach lies to their students. This is a disgrace. These bozos get away with it on our dime. Reporting their lies to the president gets nowhere because they have brainwashed the president and board of governors as well.
Actually, a “hardcore evolutionist” probably doesn’t care if species go extinct, because their theory predicts that new species will arise to fill niches abandoned by the old ones. Or fill new niches created by climate change, as the case may be.
On the other hand, if you believe each species was individually created by a supernatural creator, then it stands to reason that those species which become extinct are gone forever, and nothing new will arise to occupy their niche
But remember that “species” itself is a human construct, a tool for classifying living things, and it’s not necessarily the best tool in the box. It is quite possible to overdo the process of species definition, and “create” new “species” which are simply just isolated and trivially different breeding populations of the same damn critter.
I’m hoping for the extinction of the UN.
Hmmmm, 40 extinctions a day for 365 days is 14,600 extinctions each year, add another 40 for leap year. Since December 31st we’ve lost 3,400 plus 20 since we’re half way through today. I realize I’m no scientist, but, I don’t recall noticing that there are any fewer species in my neck of the woods than were here say, 10 years ago. Actually, I’d really like it if somehow the Canada Thistle infesting my yard would go extinct.
Looks to me folks, like just another number from a warmist cult regression spreadsheet. And an admission buried in an IPCC paper won’t stop all the usual suspects from continuing to quote it.
Are there no real scientists or politicians or members of the media that can see how this constant barrage of BS is harming them? We, the great unwashed, don’t believe you any more!
Them three bozos are quoting a long debunked lie.
A few years back a prominent warmist (I’ve forgotten which) declared the “Robins are now in the arctic and the Inuit have no name for them”
Somebody (an SDA regular if I recall) consulted some Inuit associates, who declared they had been there forever and that the Inuit had three (3) different words for them.
Why would a people have 3 different words for a bird….same reason Inuit have a dozen er so words for snow.
BTW the English language has many synonyms….without resorting to slang……house, home, dwelling, lodge, cabin, bungalow…..handgun, pistol, revolver…..
Yeah, I know that, although, these words often are interchangeable they are also precise terms.
Who cares about small dead animals?
Whenever I hear that lie, I challenge to perp to name one of the species that has gone extinct this year. Invariably they can’t. They usually utter some bs about, “uh, well, they’re insects” or some such rubbish. I then challenge them to tell me how one determines wether or not a given species has gone extinct on a particular day. Is there some enormous warehouse somewhere housing the last known examples of several thousands of species? Does someone go around every morning and rattle their cages to see if one of them’s dead, not just sleeping? It’s nonsense worthy of Monty Python.
Next I ask them how many species are actively monitored for extinction. The number is in the order of forty-thousand. At the rate claimed, these species should have all — every last one of them — gone extinct in the last five years.
Look stupid, the species going extinct are the “ones we haven’t discovered yet”.
Do you not know anything?
Waaaay back in high school in the early 80s, as part of my
educationindoctrination, along with reading crap like “Entropy” and “The Fate of the Earth”, was to “have” to take the “conservative” side in a debate about, well, the fate of the earth.I simply asked, how many species are there? When my opponents couldn’t answer, then regurgitated wildly conflicting amounts, I just said “the numbers appear to be pretty…slippery, aren’t they?”
I believe I was docked points for “cheerleading” the audience, but it was worth it.
The real question that would make a very small list is what the IPCC has been correct on. Anything, anything at all. Take your time. Gore, Suzuki ? Feel free to chip in. Polar bears drowning ? Santa being flooded out ? Oceans rising ? Free Arctic passage ? More tornadoes and hurricanes ? Warmer winters ? Aw,cmon, there has to be at least one. Anyone ? If the IPCC was a consumer product we would all be demanding our money back so why are we still paying for this crap ?
I guess if we haven’t discovered them yet, we’ll be incapable of missing them. I feel better already.
The NDP are not extinct in Saskatchewan, but there aren’t as many as there used to be. Does that count?
Sasquatch, One of the Inuit words for robin is Ikkagilik.
Sorry, Kate, I missed the first link.
It’s obvious then, if we know about 1,000 extinctions in the past 500 years, the vast majority of the 14 odd thousand each year must be ones we don’t know about. In fact, maybe all of the 20 extinctions by noon Central today are unknown but accurate. Or might it be possible that 40 per day is a ‘conservative’ heh, heh, estimate? Why it maybe could possibly be estimated as high as, “What number would make the most impact?”, gasp, 236!
It’s clearly imperative that all human activity on Earth must stop (it might be OK to pick wild berries to eat but don’t pick too many). Heh, heh.
I stand by my earlier comment. We, the great unwashed, don’t believe the charlatans any more.
Agriculture / human habitation increases the quantity and diversity of wildlife. An example is Grasslands Park; other than the critters that have been forcibly relocated there, there is not much wildlife.
All species,except leftards, are capable of adapting. What’s the big deal if a few commie lefties disappear??
Better to assume they are lying, period.
sasquatch, we have many different words for them, depending on whether it just shat on our car, woke us up at 5am etc
This has been asked before. Where are the corpses? Name the species gone extinct.Result,crickets!
There’s always somebody that wants to skewer the “hardcore evolutionists”. How about the hard core creationists?
That’s because the hardcore evolutionists are such easy targets. The hard core creationists, on the other hand, are unskewerable because the Creator has left the evidence of His handiwork in His creation.
“why are they still talking about passenger pigeons?”
In my case, they were reputed to be a great meal I never had … an never will have. What I would give to chow down on a breeding pair …
And how many new species emerge every day? Has anyone ever calculated that?
When 40 species per day is mentioned, what is the breakdown? How many are species of mite or small insect?
There are only about 7000 species of mammal, so depletion of even small mammals at the rate of 14000 per year
would, shall we say, be noticed!
There are 350,000 known species of beetle, however, so perhaps they are talking about beetles.
The microscopic marine invertebrates have not even been counted properly as yet. And what about fungi and
bacteria? Changes in the numbers of species of either would not surprise; but who knows? In any event, I can
bear the loss of 40 species of bacterium per day with equanimity.
Didn’t the Carbon Credit Exchange Weasel go extinct?