from http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-33209548

Earth ‘entering new extinction phase’ – US study

The Earth has entered a new period of extinction, a study by three US universities has concluded, and humans could be among the first casualties.

The report, led by the universities of Stanford, Princeton and Berkeley, said vertebrates were disappearing at a rate 114 times faster than normal.

The findings echo those in a report published by Duke University last year.

One of the new study’s authors said: “We are now entering the sixth great mass extinction event.”

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A scary wake up call

CrazyNeutrino said:

from http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-33209548

Earth ‘entering new extinction phase’ – US study

The Earth has entered a new period of extinction, a study by three US universities has concluded, and humans could be among the first casualties.

The report, led by the universities of Stanford, Princeton and Berkeley, said vertebrates were disappearing at a rate 114 times faster than normal.

The findings echo those in a report published by Duke University last year.

One of the new study’s authors said: “We are now entering the sixth great mass extinction event.”

more…

A scary wake up call

We will likely be the first species to evolve and go extinct within the shortest period.

According to the article bees and lemurs are at most risk.

Bees within three generations.

CrazyNeutrino said:

According to the article bees and lemurs are at most risk.

Bees within three generations.

Yeah but they have both been around way longer than humans.

The two elephants in the room are human population and climate change, the latter initially feeding off the former, but eventually will come to consume it all.

PermeateFree said:

The two elephants in the room are human population and climate change, the latter initially feeding off the former, but eventually will come to consume it all.

just stop giving your money to the problem and it will go away

the more we prop up unsustainable populations around the world the worse the problem be becomes

wookiemeister said:

PermeateFree said:

The two elephants in the room are human population and climate change, the latter initially feeding off the former, but eventually will come to consume it all.

just stop giving your money to the problem and it will go away

the more we prop up unsustainable populations around the world the worse the problem be becomes

Can’t argue with that, at least not logically.

PermeateFree said:

wookiemeister said:

PermeateFree said:

The two elephants in the room are human population and climate change, the latter initially feeding off the former, but eventually will come to consume it all.

just stop giving your money to the problem and it will go away

the more we prop up unsustainable populations around the world the worse the problem be becomes

Can’t argue with that, at least not logically.

countries that have famines do so because they have more mouths to feed than they can sustain, not to mention a corrupt and savage government , even in a famine I think Ethiopia was still fighting a war with Eritrea because it wanted to fight its way to the coast and claim it as Ethiopia

wookiemeister said:

PermeateFree said:

wookiemeister said:

just stop giving your money to the problem and it will go away

the more we prop up unsustainable populations around the world the worse the problem be becomes

Can’t argue with that, at least not logically.

countries that have famines do so because they have more mouths to feed than they can sustain, not to mention a corrupt and savage government , even in a famine I think Ethiopia was still fighting a war with Eritrea because it wanted to fight its way to the coast and claim it as Ethiopia

The problem with that is that an army fights with its stomach.

it’s like this thinking that says we need decades of war because we aren’t prepared to cut the logistics of ISIS.

I wouldn’t worry about it , there’s not much you can do , just sit back , put your sunglasses on and ride the wave to the end of civilisation

iroughbarked said:

wookiemeister said:

PermeateFree said:

Can’t argue with that, at least not logically.

countries that have famines do so because they have more mouths to feed than they can sustain, not to mention a corrupt and savage government , even in a famine I think Ethiopia was still fighting a war with Eritrea because it wanted to fight its way to the coast and claim it as Ethiopia

The problem with that is that an army fights with its stomach.

yes all that aid was probably sustaining that army

wookiemeister said:

iroughbarked said:

wookiemeister said:

countries that have famines do so because they have more mouths to feed than they can sustain, not to mention a corrupt and savage government , even in a famine I think Ethiopia was still fighting a war with Eritrea because it wanted to fight its way to the coast and claim it as Ethiopia

The problem with that is that an army fights with its stomach.

yes all that aid was probably sustaining that army

I thought the saying was:- “That an army marches on its stomach??”

> The Earth has entered a new period of extinction

I’ll say! The development of the hydrogen bomb in 1951 made that pretty clear.

CrazyNeutrino said:

The Earth has entered a new period of extinction, a study by three US universities has concluded, and humans could be among the first casualties.

One of the new study’s authors said: “We are now entering the sixth great mass extinction event.”

more…

A scary wake up call

LMFAO… look who’s one of the authors >>> Paul R. Ehrlich

here’s a sum up by a responsible & honest expert.

Guest essay by Jim Steele,director emeritus Sierra Nevada Field Campus, San Francisco State University

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2015/06/25/apocalyptic-fear-mongering-sometimes-rush-limbaugh-is-right/

As an ecologist I read several papers a week, looking for pearls of wisdom that would make us better stewards of the environment. But Ceballos and Ehrlich 2015 offered absolutely nothing new and absolutely nothing useful. They simply created a framework that would dramatize their numbers stating, “Our analysis emphasizes that our global society has started to destroy species of other organisms at an accelerating rate, initiating a mass extinction episode unparalleled for 65 million years.” Started to destroy…??? What are we now doing to suddenly promote mass extinctions?

Indeed more species have likely gone extinct in the past 500 years due to habitat loss, overhunting and invasive species than are known to have gone extinct over the past 400 thousand years, despite the extreme climate shifts between the ice age glacials and warm interglacials. But the bulk of those extinctions were the result of past human actions that are now being rectified. At this essay’s conclusion, I added a table for the first 100 of the 140 extinct bird species from the same IUCN database that Ceballos and Ehrlich 2015 used for their paper. Unlike Ceballos and Ehrlich 2015, I included extinction dates and the reason the IUCN has justified their extinction status. Notice that most extinct species inhabited islands where organisms are extremely sensitive to all invasive species. That damage has already been done. So in contrast to claims we are “entering” an era of accelerated mass extinctions, it would be more honest to say humans are now reversing what began 500 years ago.

In chapter one of his book, Steele takes on NASA climate change guru James Hansen: “In contrast to predictions of accelerating heat stress by ‘C02 advocates’ like Dr. Hansen, the past 60 years of climate change in California should have benefited wildlife. …

…Steele writes that polar bears aren’t going extinct and there never was any warming of their habitats. He offers evidence that the local food supply benefits from less ice.

Steele relates how he has experienced accusations from his colleagues that he is a global-warming “denier” who is collaborating with “Big Oil.

He is a professional forester, scuba diver, airplane pilot and small businessman. Steele is now running for a seat on the Lake County Board of Supervisors on an environmental platform.