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The Sixth Extinction

calamity said:
Denialist BS, to which the appropriate response is ridicule.
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Species extinction is such a serious problem in our world. Those that deny this are different than Climate Denialists. They are abusers of animals. When these animals die from lost habitat, it is often painful and torturing.
 
Media_Truth said:
Species extinction is such a serious problem in our world. Those that deny this are different than Climate Denialists. They are abusers of animals. When these animals die from lost habitat, it is often painful and torturing.
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I find it hard to believe that anyone would not be aware of this problem. What kind of a ****ing bubble does one have to inhabit not to know what is happening on that front?
 
[h=2]Recent Studies Indicate Species Extinctions Decline With Warming – Mass Extinction Events Due To COOLING[/h]By Kenneth Richard on 16. May 2019
[h=4]During the last few hundred years, species extinctions primarily occurred due to habitat loss and predator introduction on islands. Extinctions have not been linked to a warming climate or higher CO2 levels. In fact, since the 1870s, species extinction rates have been plummeting.[/h]
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[h=6]Image Sources: Loehle & Eschenbach (2012), BBC, Wrightstone, 2019[/h]
 
calamity said:
I find it hard to believe that anyone would not be aware of this problem. What kind of a ****ing bubble does one have to inhabit not to know what is happening on that front?
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You see, if one acknowledges that a problem exists, then there is the need to address it. It is much easier to either deny the problem, suggest that only totally impractical solutions for it exist (end modern agriculture and animal husbandry??!!), make up names for people who acknowledge the problem (tree huggers) or simply distract attention from the problem.

Since the extinction of a million species worldwide would take some cooperation to even begin to address, and since cooperation with people who are different from ourselves is difficult, then the choice to simply ignore the problem and hope it goes away is easy to make.


As you can see, the Earth is huge. Puny humans can't be having a real impact on it, don't you see?

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Dittohead not! said:
You see, if one acknowledges that a problem exists, then there is the need to address it. It is much easier to either deny the problem, suggest that only totally impractical solutions for it exist (end modern agriculture and animal husbandry??!!), make up names for people who acknowledge the problem (tree huggers) or simply distract attention from the problem.

Since the extinction of a million species worldwide would take some cooperation to even begin to address, and since cooperation with people who are different from ourselves is difficult, then the choice to simply ignore the problem and hope it goes away is easy to make.


As you can see, the Earth is huge. Puny humans can't be having a real impact on it, don't you see?
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Wrightstone, 2019
 
calamity said:
So, another bull**** website spewing bull****. Whodda guessed?
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Cited data are from the IUCN Red List.

[h=3]IUCN Red List of Threatened Species | IUCN[/h]
[url]https://www.iucn.org/resources/conservation-tools/iucn-red-list-threatened-species
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Photo: IUCN The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™ is the world's most comprehensive inventory of the global conservation status of plant and animal species. ... With its strong scientific base, The IUCN Red List is recognized as the most authoritative guide to the status of ...
 
Dittohead not! said:
Once more, you have proven that any idea, however absurd, can be "proven" by citing the right internet site. Here's more proof:
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Irrelevant.

My cited data are from IUCN Red List.

[h=3]IUCN Red List of Threatened Species | IUCN[/h]
[url]https://www.iucn.org/resources/conservation-tools/iucn-red-list-threatened-species
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Photo: IUCN The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™ is the world's most comprehensive inventory of the global conservation status of plant and animal species. ... With its strong scientific base, The IUCN Red List is recognized as the most authoritative guide to the status of ...
 
Jack Hays said:
Cited data are from the IUCN Red List.

[h=3]IUCN Red List of Threatened Species | IUCN[/h]
[url]https://www.iucn.org/resources/conservation-tools/iucn-red-list-threatened-species
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Photo: IUCN The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™ is the world's most comprehensive inventory of the global conservation status of plant and animal species. ... With its strong scientific base, The IUCN Red List is recognized as the most authoritative guide to the status of ...
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Anyone can misrepresent actual data to make it look like something completely different. Obviously, anyone arguing that species far and wide, large and small, on land, in the sea and in the air, are not facing extinction is making **** up as they go.

Threat of mass extinction looms as million species face decline
 
Jack Hays said:
Irrelevant.

My cited data are from IUCN Red List.

[h=3]IUCN Red List of Threatened Species | IUCN[/h]
[url]https://www.iucn.org/resources/conservation-tools/iucn-red-list-threatened-species
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Photo: IUCN The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™ is the world's most comprehensive inventory of the global conservation status of plant and animal species. ... With its strong scientific base, The IUCN Red List is recognized as the most authoritative guide to the status of ...
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Your link is to a contrarian blog. It is no more convincing than the site I cited.
 
calamity said:
My I/T article was 11 hours old. Yours is from two years ago. :lamo
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It also recounts a speech given at the Geological Society of America by a Smithsonian paleontologist. In the context of a claim of mass extinction, two years is nothing.
 
Jack Hays said:
It also recounts a speech given at the Geological Society of America by a Smithsonian paleontologist. In the context of a claim of mass extinction, two years is nothing.
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In the event of human destruction, two years is like a million used to be.
 
Jack Hays said:
Your desperation only undermines your own credibility.
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Desperation? Showing that any idea, however absurd, can be supported by citing the proper place on the internet was quite easy. You even proved it yourself.
 
Dittohead not! said:
Desperation? Showing that any idea, however absurd, can be supported by citing the proper place on the internet was quite easy. You even proved it yourself.
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No. What you're doing is dodging substantive discussion by throwing up a barrage of ad hominems and red herrings. It is a tactic rooted in fear.
 
Jack Hays said:
No. What you're doing is dodging substantive discussion by throwing up a barrage of ad hominems and red herrings. It is a tactic rooted in fear.
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There is no point in "substantive discussion" of what is found in sites like WUWT.
 
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