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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.
If we screw this up, the consequenses will be chatastrophic
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Goddamnit. Now we have to stuff more corks in the asses of cows. Goddamn farts are gonna kill us all...
we'll all be dead from nuclear war long before these plants and animals become extinct, so we won't even notice.
I think it's mostly likely that 50 years into the future we'll have 15-30% fewer spotted owls and white tigers and 15-30% more Velcro Sheep and Mice That Piss Vodka.
Ergonomica Auctorita Illico!
I bet you have a bumper sticker on your SUV that says Shit Happens don't ya?
If he can survive some massive asteroid I'm sure we can survive some mildly warm weather.
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... predictions are that thousands of species will be extermined if the global temperature remains the same, and thousands will also go extinct if the temperature drops.
Change is bad. The environment should be compelled to remain exactly the same as it was the first time a human observed it. And by "human", of course, I mean a White European Male observing in the last few hundred years. That's the only true state of the environment.
i wish global warming would hurry up. im getting sick of these new-england winters.
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It's very passe to think more than 15 minutes ahead into the future. Get with the program old man.
the only reason I'm able to look at the problem without passing out in terror: the knowledge that we can't fuck things up enough to destroy all life on the planet.
That sounds like a challenge!
Styrophoam cups here I come...
You can't take the sky from me...
Right, so all we can hope for now is that 36 of those 37 species are dirty, oxygen breathing mammals so we'll have fewer CO2 emissions . . .
Oh thank you, now i can go back to driving my S.U.V, leave the lights on all day round, eat more meat products and alltogether act like an overfed energy wasting pig.
Google references say it can't have environemental impact.
With that aggravating beauty, Lulu Walls.
If I get to drive my SUV, mini van, or hummer when I could otherwise drive a car.
After all, I am too fat from my supersized meals and 3 quarts a day of soft drinks to comfortably climb climb into a car instead of a truck.
I also have to keep up with fashion. Driving a car is just not fashionable. I know its an inanimate object but it is just not "masculine" the way a hummer is. Who I am as a person has nothing to do with my qualities or accomplishments. Its about how fashionable my vehicale is.
If the planet is turned into a shit hole for my children and grand children then so be it.
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Steve
Any chance that the human kind is among those 15-37 percent? Because that would solve everything. At least for awhile - until next inteligent parasite would come.
Less is more !