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

Cool

[Jukashi]

cool, fp.

Re:Cool

[Anonymous Coward]

No, RTFA, Warm! Not Cool!

Re:Cool

[Anonymous Coward]

wikid, sp!

can anyone do anything...

[mantera]

reminds me of the swedish chef making "frog legs" from that episode of the muppets when the little froggie yells "uncle kermit, somebody, anybody... HeEeeEEEeeeLLlLLllPpPPpppppp"...

Real world vs. fanboy fantasies

[Anonymous Coward]

I am what most people would consider a highly trained technical professional. Unlike most people who spout off at this site, I have the certificates to prove this, and furthermore they're issued by the biggest software company in existence.

I know how to tell facts from marketing fluff. Now, here are the facts as they're found by SEVERAL INDEPENDENT RESEARCH INSTITUTES:

Expenses for file-server workloads under Windows, compared to LinuxOS:

• Staffing expenses were 33.5% better.
  
• Training costs were 32.3% better.
  

They compared Microsofts IIS to the Linux 7.0 webserver. For Windows, the cost was only:

• $40.25 per megabit of throughput per second.
  
• $1.79 per peak request per second.
  

Application development and support costs for Windows compared to an opensores solution like J2EE:

• 28.2% less for large enterprises.
  
• 25.0% less for medium organizations.
  

A full Windows installation, compared to installing Linux, on an Enterprise Server boxen:

• Is nearly three hours faster.
  
• Requires 77% fewer steps.
  

Compared to the best known opensores webserver "Red Hat", Microsoft IIS:

• Has 276% better peak performance for static transactions.
  
• Has 63% better peak performance for dynamic content.
  

These are hard numbers and 100% FACTS! There are several more where these came from.

Who do you think we professionals trust more?
Reliable companies with tried and tested products, or that bedroom coder Thorwalds who publicly admits that he is in fact A HACKER???

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KING OF POST WHORES

[Anonymous Coward]

I mean, how much you wanna bet that those karma points aren't being assigned because of anything said here, but because the name reads Linus Torvald?

Note to the moderators: the last name of the real Linus is Torvalds.

Re:Yeah sure

[Anonymous Coward]

Anyone get the feeling user "Linus Torvald" is building up karma for a huge Linux troll?

• "Linus Torvald" is not "Linus Torvalds".
• His/her user number indicates it is a recently registered account.
• This user has made only two posts, today, in his/her entire existance. The account was probably registered today.
• Both posts have scored +5. I would contend that it is unusual for a newbie to debut with +5 scores. This is an experienced slashdotter, who has the hang of 'post early and pander to the masses'.

Congratulations to "Linus Torvald" for realising that that this username was unregistered. Looking forward to your first troll.

Re:Yeah sure

[Anonymous Coward]

G'day "Linus". Nice attempt to shore up support! Keep trying. ;-)

Re:Yeah sure

[Aardpig]

I wonder if he graduated from the same British bastion of learning that employs a professor who rejected an Israeli's application for a position because of Israel's policies.

How is this remark in any way germane to the current discussion of global warming? This is like me, for instance, pointing out that Ariel Sharon is a war criminal. Not relevant, not relevant...

Re:So far, the high rated comments are astonishing

[CSG_SurferDude]

ATTENTION THAGG

ATTENTION THAGG

Your crystal has turned black...

Please report to carousel for renewel..

(BTW: I'm an ancient-creeky 42, and my daughters got me an "Older than Dirt" sticker for my birthday)

Re:Bad News for Divers

[mabu]

This is very, very, VERY bad. People do not realize how sensitive our coral reefs are to even the most minor climate change, and how coral reefs are the most bio-diverse areas on the planet. We are only just now beginning to understand some of the complex symbiotic relationships that exist in these precious areas.

It's in all likelihood that studying the behavior of all these organisms will result in great leaps in medical and bioscience, but these resources are likely to disappear before we recognize their importance.

It will be a suitable epitaph for humanity I guess.

Re:I wonder...

[IM6100]

"Hating Bush" is a fulltime occupation for folks like you, eh?

You're a heck of a lot like the Clinton haters.

Regular folks think you're loony.

Re:I wonder...

[lee7guy]

No, you don't understand.

Hating Bush is not our full time occupation. We just dislike him, his opinions and his politics intensively 24 hours/day, 7 days/week, 52 weeks/year.