"Dramatic Decline" Warning For Plants and Animals

An anonymous reader writes "Worldwide levels of the chief greenhouse gas that causes global warming have hit a milestone, reaching an amount never before encountered by humans, federal scientists said. Carbon dioxide was measured at 400 parts per million at the oldest monitoring station in Hawaii, which sets the global benchmark. More than half of plants and a third of animal species are likely to see their living space halved by 2080 if current trends continue."

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Hysteria!

[Anonymous Coward]

Once again: The sky is falling! : The sky is falling!

Re:Hysteria!

[grantspassalan]

Chicken Little said the sky was falling. The earth may be getting warmer, but is that so bad? Where was all that carbon, some of which now is being liberated by our modern civilization? The global warming scare mongers tell us that the burning of fossil fuels is the cause of the earth getting warmer. If that is true, the carbon that is now being released must have once been in the atmosphere for living things to use while they were alive, then died and were buried. Therefore in effect our civilization is RETURNING the carbon into the air. Therefore, when the fossil fuels were formed it must've been much warmer than today, but not warm enough to harm life on earth. Most living things generally do better in warmth that in freezing cold. Therefore if mankind managed to liberate ALL carbon now stored as fossil fuels, the cycle would repeat itself.

Recycling is generally considered good, so why is recycling the carbon be considered bad? We know most plants do better in warm places with a high carbon content in the atmosphere. This has been unequivocally established by EXPERIMENT, not mere mathematical modeling based on faulty assumptions. One real-life experiment is worth much more than hundreds of thousands of hours of computer time using up energy for mathematical modeling based on faulty assumptions and insufficient data. So far humanity has managed to release only a tiny fraction of the total carbon stored in the form of hydrocarbons in the crust of the earth.
Global warming, bring it on! If the earth were warmer, humanity would need less fuel to keep warm and would have much more land available which is now freezing cold. There is a whole CONTINENT at the bottom of the earth that could become inhabited by people if it were warm.

Horse excrement

[Anonymous Coward]

And NYC was supposed to be 3 feed underwater by 2015. Slashdot, THE EMPEROR HAS NO CLOTHES!!!! Wake up. Climate change is the cry of yesterday's Chicken Little's. Fine some new apocalyptic theory to push onto people to scam them out of their liberties. This hoax has run it's course. You're boring me.

Carbon dioxide strikes again

[fazig]

Yeah, again the evil molecule of carbon dioxide the most vicious poison known to man for plants, animals and man alike, endangers our all well being.

It should be banned, right now, before it kills even more plants!

Re:350ppm

[Mashiki]

Yep they did. Don't forget that CO2 levels have been in the 1500's and higher and life continued on.

Re:Global Warming is true, and deadly ..

[OhANameWhatName]

Global Warming is true, and deadly for your Grandchildren

People truly concerned about the earth wouldn't be breeding more humans.

Re:350ppm

[hairyfeet]

The reason you are seeing this crap in the press is the same reason you always see things pushed that don't match the evidence...money.

In this case several of the usual suspects, including Goldman Sachs which if anything is dirty or underhanded you just KNOW they are getting a cut, have a nice scam built around Cap & Trade, complete with shell companies and loopholes galore for their friends, it'll be a tax on everyone but the upper 5% who will be handed the money on a silver platter, the biggest reverse robin hood since the robber barons were handed the Indian lands in the 1800s so its gonna be an orgy of greed if they can get that shit passed.

Which is why i urge even those that support AGW to be against Cap & Trade, Crap & Trade is like saying "There is pollution in the world...so i get to rob your house" one does nothing to change the other, has nothing to do with the other, because the worst offenders already have their loopholes you can drive a truck through like ZERO PENALTIES for simply exporting the factories to India and China, both of whom have already said they will NOT play the crap & trade game.

So if you are for less pollution? hey so am I, what a coincidence...now explain to me how giving billions of dollars to Goldman Sachs and pals is gonna do a damned thing about that. Do not let them fool you with their press mouthpiece screaming "We have to do something!" No we do not have to do SOMETHING, we have to do SOMETHING EFFECTIVE, hell of a big difference between those two statements.

Re:Yep

[cheater512]

And everything seems fine just now doesn't it.

Major temperature changes in the past (over 8 degrees hotter) gave us what we have today.
Morale of the story, planet gets hotter, planet gets colder. Everything else sorts its self out.

I'm not advocating pollution, its just the 'sky is falling' people are completely off the mark.

This is bulls**t

[Jacek Poplawski]

All this stuff is a lie. You believe in "global warming" religion, even if you consider youself as an atheist.

Could you explain after so many years what was the reason to give Nobel Prize for Al Gore? BTW Could you also explain what was the reason to give Nobel Prize for Obama?