Drudge Retort: Red Meat for Yellow Dogs
Monday, November 02, 2009

While we debate climate change, the real threats to our planet go unaddressed. Deforestation and loss of habitat are killing off lifeforms at an alarming rate. Currently nearly half of the lifeforms on the planet are facing extinction. But the more important question on everyone's mind seems to be, will the planet be 1/2 or2 degrees warmer in 2020?

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Thats it? We gotta get to work.

Deforestation and loss of habitat
IOW, environmental problems we can realistically do something about.

Why is is our jobs as humans to preserve species? The Earth has been around for a long time and there have been mass extintions before. Extintions are good. Imagine if the dinosaurs hadn't gone extint how our world would be today. I don't think dinosaurs would care about humans going extint if they were around.

Add one more; if it is so bad I'm sure mankind is on the list too. Boo Hoo.

Party today for tomorrow we die :)

Party today for tomorrow we die :)

"In September 1998, Worldwatch Institute reported that 7 out of 10 biologists believed the world was in the middle of the fastest mass extinction in history. Faster than five previous extinctions including the one that got the dinosaurs. More serious than the ozone layer problem, global warming and pollution."
www.suite101.com

"More serious than the ozone layer problem, global warming and pollution."

Uh, guys, what do you think's causing it?

And that was '98, things have been speeding up.

What could be worse?

This: www.youtube.com

850 New Species Discovered
blogs.discovery.com

"Finding New Species: The Golden Age of Discovery"

"A 2008 study by the Arizona State University International Institute for Species Exploration reported 16,969 new species of plants and animals described in 2006 alone (not including new species of microbial life), which amounts to some 1 percent of Earth's 1.8 million known species."

The new finds aren't small cryptic oddities. The recent mammal discoveries range in size from a 3-gram shrew-tenrec to a 100-kilogram antelope. They include a hundred new bat species, a rodent species thought extinct for 11 million years, a pygmy deer from Bhutan, a macaque from the Himalayan foothills, a white titi monkey from Brazil, and a pygmy sloth from Panama.

e360.yale.edu

You want seconds on that Kool-Aid?

There may be 17,291 species out of 47,677 assessed species, or 36 percent, are threatened with extinction. But I think their new species count is a little low - "information on more than 2,800 additional species has been added in 2009. This includes more than 1,300 previously unassessed dragonflies and damselflies, of which the IUCN recently completed a major new study."

Finding New Species:
The Golden Age of Discovery
Aided by new access to remote regions, researchers have been discovering new species at a record pace 16,969 in 2006 alone. The challenge now is to preserve threatened ecosystems before these species, and others yet unknown, are lost.

do a search and see what you can find.

Sorry, no sad looking Ape

google

Why is is our jobs as humans to preserve species? The Earth has been around for a long time and there have been mass extintions before. Extintions are good. Imagine if the dinosaurs hadn't gone extint how our world would be today. I don't think dinosaurs would care about humans going extint if they were around.

#3 | Posted by member2586

Too bad MemberisIdioticus isn't endangered. Would be a Good Thing to see you and your ilk be permanently removed from the life cycle.

The sky is falling! The sky is falling!
Liberals need a "crisis" or their votes die out.

The sky is falling! The sky is falling!
Liberals need a "crisis" or their votes die out.

#11 | Posted by Diablo

So catolico, this is nothing but a liberal plot for vote getting? That the other lifeforms on this planet are not at risk?

What could be worse?

#7 | Posted by Zatoichi at 2009-11-02 07:16 PM | Reply | Flag:

More bloviating sky is falling rhetoric from you?

9 out of 10 dentists recommend Crest toothpaste - do you use it ZAT?

"9 out of 10 dentists recommend Crest toothpaste"

[citation needed]

"do you use it ZAT?"

No, shit-for-brains, I use what my dentist recommends.

No, shit-for-brains, I use what my dentist recommends.

#14 | Posted by Zatoichi at 2009-11-03 12:56 PM | Reply | Flag:

Good, I follow the same policy in terms of climatology. My climatologist recommends I continue to use resources at my current rate as it benefits my family the most and harms the earth very little if at all.

Glad we can agree that the majority opinion is not the one we always need to follow ZATHOLE.

"Liberals need a "crisis" or their votes die out."

Just today I heard a Republican Congresswoman saying health care reform will be worse than 9-11.

The last time humanity walked this path, we were very lucky.
We also had much smaller, more isolated populations.

For far too long, the argument has been to cause. Roughly one sixth of the planet is thirsty, with billions more at risk in the near term?
Just to that point- What then?
The needs are great, with no solutions even on the table.

Party today for tomorrow we die :)

Today is a good day to die!

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