Y2Kyoto: I’ll Miss The Biodiversity

13 Replies to “Y2Kyoto: I’ll Miss The Biodiversity”

1. How about Polar bears? According to the eco-nuts they were about extinct.

2. Reading a sentence or two beyond your quote —
   // Scientists believe nature holds another 10 million undiscovered species, from single-celled organisms to mammals, and worry that thousands are becoming extinct faster than they are being identified //

3. OMG, climate change is causing an explosion of new species, greatly harming biouniformity. How many more indignities can we inflict upon Gaia till mankind feels her wrath?

4. Yeah. That’s nice. However how many quadribillion have we killed since we started using oile/gas/coal??? Get with the pogram. Damn AGW deniers.

5. Hell of a lot more for Sue-Zuki the cry about, because all those new species are threatened.(By right wingers who should be in jail.)

6. Just the other day I drove home in my air-conditioned, gasoline-buring truck in paint-marked lanes on paved streets to my heated, insulated, furnished home to watch a TV pogram on my big screen TV (for which I always use the battery-powered remote control) on those damned pro-oile/gas/coal AGW deniers. They’re such hypocrites.

7. Only an eco nut can simultaneously believe in Darwin theory of evolution while also believing that species going extinct is unatural and must be stopped.

8. “Scientists believe nature holds another 10 million undiscovered species, from single-celled organisms to mammals, and worry that thousands are becoming extinct faster than they are being identified.”
   Is this estimate more or less than the rate of extinction from the past? Is there an estimate at how many species emerge at any given time? These are just assertions without appropriate context.

9. Estimates of total species on earth range from 5 to 150 million. We’ve identified about 2.5 million. It takes 100 years to ‘prove’ a species is extinct.
   What does that say about the nebulous “species extinction rate”?
   If we don’t know how many species as we live, breathe and walk amongst them in the present, how many were there 1, 100, 300 million years ago?????

10. No taxonomy without misrepresentation!

11. I smell a steaming pile of Bovine Excrement!
    We all lived through the Northern Spotted Owl hoax.
    It was a lot like the Tipton Kangaroo Rat. Genetically,
    there is no difference between an ordinary Spotted Owl
    or Kangaroo rat other than an arbitrary geographic
    classification.
    All logging in Northern California, Oregon and Washington was
    pretty much shut down on public lands, as a result of this
    hoax. 130,000 Timber men were axed and 300 mills were closed as a result of ill conceived legislation. The Spotted Owl ranges as far North as Canada, as far East two thirds of North
    America and as far South as Mexico!
    My favorite story about environmental hoaxes involves the
    Tipton Kangaroo Rat. Tipton is near Bakersfield. Bakersfield
    applied for a federal permit to build a new city hall or some
    such project. The city responded by trapping all the rats
    and housed them at a Motel 6 in order to comply with
    the variance. I stayed there during several Texaco shutdowns.
    About six months later, they finally decided to release the
    rats at North Coles Levee just in time to watch them all
    drown in a flood.
    Your tax dollars at work!

12. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Background_extinction_rate
    Extinction rates not as bad as feared … for now: Scientists challenge common belief
    http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/01/130124150806.htm
    Of course the “18000 new species discovered” are not new species but newly discovered species.

13. Obviously, once again, the science is settled.