Carbon - Can't Live With It, Can't Live w/Out It!
Ok, this is a shameless heist of an NPR article. I just took the links and made them easier to follow. This is a great series on climate change and in my continuing quest for knowledge I really like this animated series. Anybody that denies people are affecting the climate of the world we live on are naive or blissfully sequestered in their own little rosy reality, complete with like minded friends in denial. Human activity is killing more species at an ever increasing rate.
The Current Mass Extinction. This is not just gloom and doom, nor am I out hugging the knotty pines everyday! But, I am not ignorant and it doesn't take a genius to see the Human Factor is poisoning our planet in the name of civilization and economic prosperity. What's an ostrich to do? A clean strip of sand to hide ones head in is becoming increasingly hard to find!
Meanwhile, back on Earth, someone is poisoning the pooch!
ciao
I looked at your link to "the current mass extinction”' and what a pile of crap. They have determined from the fossil record about 100 species go extinct per year? What?! Where did that number come from? Fossils only record a few species at any one time, the fossil record is nowhere near complete. You simply can’t count up the fossils in a 100 million year old rock and conclude that is the rate of extinction back then. Who are these researchers and who is paying for this outrageous tripe? Must be climate scientists again, they certainly would not be geologists. These kinds of claims just undermine the credibility of the green movement. Nice work.
ReplyDeleteI remember 10 years ago the WWF had an ad on tv which said that 1 species goes extinct every second from human activity. Too bad they forgot that there were only believed to be 5 million species on earth at the time and so we’d all be extinct in about 60 days. I guess they aren’t good at math. Today there are believed to be 30 million, that’s 6 times more species than 10 years ago. So how do we conclude there is an ongoing mass extinction when we can’t arrive at a concrete number of species in the first place?