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As for Tasmania, almost 50% of the entire state is currently world heritage listed.

Are you sure about that? Closer to 20% it would seem.

I don't think de-listing a fraction of a percent of that ....

A fraction of a percent? They're de-listing ~74000 hectares of 1.4 million . Thats closer to 20%.

...is going to cause much damage.

You can't even get basic facts right & you expect people to believe your assessment of what will cause much damage? Even by slashdot standards, you're a fuckwit.

I think you got stuck on the 20% number, or mixed your measurements, because 74000 is not 20% of 1.4 million.

I left the insulting language in because it's funny here!

As for Tasmania, almost 50% of the entire state is currently world heritage listed.

Are you sure about that? Closer to 20% it would seem.

I don't think de-listing a fraction of a percent of that ....

A fraction of a percent? They're de-listing ~74000 hectares of 1.4 million. Thats closer to 20%.

...is going to cause much damage.

You can't even get basic facts right & you expect people to believe your assessment of what will cause much damage? Even by slashdot standards, you're a fuckwit.

Antarctica as a whole isn't warming unless you deal in dubious statistical models. The west Antarctica peninsula has been warming though, and that's where the hyperbole comes from.

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/05/20/steig-et-al-antarctica-warming-paper-process-is-finally-replicated-and-dealt-a-blow-to-robustness/

That has likely more to do with natural shifting of the polar current around Antarctica than anything else. Changes in current location affects weather at the peninsula without affecting the rest of the continent.

http://www.parks.tas.gov.au/fahan_mi_shipwrecks/infohut/acc.htm

Um, did you read the link you posted?
It seem to indicate:
1) They didn't know it was the 'oldest living thing on earth' when they cut it down, since that species of tree can't be dated accurately with core samples.

2) It was the oldest known *tree* on earth. Not the oldest 'living thing', which is something difficult to determine anyway. There are 43,000 year old strains of King's holly which (I think) would be the oldest plant, depending whether you consider vegetative reproduction to create a 'new individual' or not.

3) It's the oldest *known*. The linked article also clearly allows for the possiblity of older bristlecones, since they are apparently hard do date without cutting down.

Thylacines were not hunted as food; they were deliberately exterminated by European immigrants because Thylacines killed domestic sheep.

For more information on Thylacines, check out this article by the Tasmanian Parks and Wildlife Service.

It wouldn't hurt the Slashdot editors to show a little maturity by researching their flippant comments before making bogus statements. Trying some professional journalism would do wonders for Slashdot's credibility.

Thylacine@Home : use your computer to help search the Tasmanian northlands for signs of this elusive marsupial cat-dog.

--Blair
"I see a great need."

Actually, Tasmanian Tigers were butt-ugly; so the cute-and-fluffy theroy dosn't hold in this case (although it does have a certian amount of validity otherwise). The name "Tiger" is a misnomer -- they were not even felines; they were, like many native Australian animals, marsupials. Here is a good web page about Thylacines.
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