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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.
And you can't tell me whether this coin I flip is going to come up heads or tails, but claim that in if I do it 1000 times, I will get very close to 500 heads? Bah!
And you just hit the nail on the head, but I don't think you meant to. While environmentalism is not a bad thing by itself, most hard core environmentalists are much more interested in political-economic changes than they are in actually 'saving the earth'. Once socialism and communism were widely regarded as failures, the leftists needed some other method of advocating their anti capitalist beliefs. What better way to bring down capitalism than through extreme environmentalism. Make it too expensive and too difficult to produce anything or even to go about our daily lives, and industrialized society will crumble. Once again, I'm not saying all environmentalists have this goal in mind, and I for one don't want corporations to be able to legally dump mercury in a river or anything like that, but many hard core enviro-freaks are also die hard socialists.
"Green on the outside, Red on the inside."
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...oh yes, maybe.
/. readers and moderators know better:
Scientific study after study after study demonstrating the effects and causes of global warning but, fortunately for us fossil fuel users,
maybe every few hundred years 15% to 30% of living organisms die out. And likely 15% to 30% of new organisms develop
see what I mean. Take that Darwin.
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I just love your phrase "Global warming, for whatever reason, is undeniably real"
I mean sure "..for whatever reason" is a valid argument and everything, but gee whiz - can we bother you for some science?
I think your misinterpreting the reaction here - most of us geeks in this community are just plain old skeptical scientists in one form or another, that's all.
The alleged "science" used to back up this gigantic steaming bowl of crappola has been thoroughly torn to shreds.
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