Extinctions Due to Global Warming Predicted

PizzaFace writes "A study being published today in Nature predicts that global warming will doom 15 to 37 percent of plants and animals to extinction by 2050, according to various news sources. The study looked at how predicted warming would affect the suitability of the areas that particular species inhabit, and whether displaced species would be able to migrate to suitable habitat. Many of the unlucky species are being caught between the hammer of global warming and the anvil of habitation destruction." The BBC has a story about climate engineering: long-range planning on making major changes in order to reduce the effects of global warming.

Comments

I doesn't matter

[noelo]

I can't see any animals when stuck in an airconditioned SUV doing 10-12 MPG. Anyway the habitiat destruction is happening in other foreeeign countries. As long as the good-oll-you-ess-of-aaaa keeps me comfortable why should I care. Lets start a war on those damm greenies.....I hear they have dem weapons of mass destruction....God damm...get me dubbya on the phone

Re:Evolution will take over

[dnoyeb]

As an american, I think we can stand to burn off a few million White dudes :)

Now what are those sun-screen stock's again?

Re:Yeah sure

[corebreech]

I think it's more likely that you simply can't read.

The warming *is* planet wide, it simply isn't uniform, and extreme swings towards warmer temperatures are parried by commensurate swings towards colder temperatures. But overall, the temperatures creep upward.

Maybe if I drew you a picture...

Re:I wonder...

[Billy the Mountain]

Kyoto was doomed well before Bush took office. In 1999, the senate voted 98-0 [semissourian.com] against this treaty. Other nations have began to have second thoughts about it as well. This treaty was more about holding developed nations back than it was about reducing emissions, and it is on the scrap pile where it belongs.

Yep, <Shrug>, There's literally nothing Bush, The Environmentalist President(TM), could have done.

Geek discovers Dihydrogen Monoxide

[Testocles]

Ping! I wonder which environmental nut falls for these redundant frequently aired politico global hot crap! A little common sense should let any geek know that a newly discovered substance called Dihydrogen Monoxide which is invisble to environmentalists and politico nincompoops has put a hole in all these theories. This white substance Dihydrogen monoxide steams into number one as the only big issue. Dihydrogen Monoxide (or H20 as its known) clouds into sky carrying millions of tons of boiled water (just think how many electric kettles you need to boil to make one cloud) and its the one and only major carrier of heat around the planet. Since 2/3 of the planet is water, there is little or nothing anyone can or should be doing about it. These ennviornmental nuts just don't have any answer to geeks pricking their bubble.

Re:How can such nonsese be rated insightful?

[blinder]

oh my, we are certain of ourselves aren't we? So, you think computer models and "trends" can predict what will happen in 50+ years.

Your example is completely irrelevant and has no basis on the *prediction* of climate, in that you assume the computer models are to be trusted completely and that they are infalable.

The whole point of this little exercise is to not just swallow what we are given as the gospel... rejecting the spoon that feeds us is tough sometines.

Re:Of course

[blinder]

So you have this blind, unquestioned faith in the models eh? So, is a computer your godhead? My whole point is predicting that which is based on *models* is not any better than predicting the weather over 24 hours.

Write out 100 times: i will learn to question my faith in computer models.

Re:Of course

[gowen]

Of course your entitled to opinions. The question is, how long do you wish those opinions to remain uninformed opinions?