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Hi Calamity,
I already discussed in an other thread why this video from CNN is very bad. It really is. It is all based on extrapolation of data which is already not very accurate. And the presentation is also bad. According to the graph with population density on Earth we have a population density of about 2 billion people in the Netherlands v.s the actual 17 million that live here.
I've seen you be a little over concerned before. But if this is the kind of article that gets you there than you are making yourself crazy mate. I share your concern, but this is bad information that gives bad ideas that are not true. Yes, some animals die because of us. But not that many, nor is it going to be that many.
Joey
Why do I have a feeling you won't believe the actual science, either?
The Anthropocene is functionally and stratigraphically distinct from the Holocene | Science
Wrong feeling. I do. What I do not believe in is propaganda. It's bad the way it is now. But it is not anywhere near as bad as what Greenpeace wants you to believe. Extrapolating numbers with a very large margin of error does not work. Much less so when you start with the wrong numbers. The variations are so large that anyone can take that part of the outcome that is convenient for them.
Joey
Hi Calamity,
I already discussed in an other thread why this video from CNN is very bad. It really is. It is all based on extrapolation of data which is already not very accurate. And the presentation is also bad. According to the graph with population density on Earth we have a population density of about 2 billion people in the Netherlands v.s the actual 17 million that live here.
I've seen you be a little over concerned before. But if this is the kind of article that gets you there than you are making yourself crazy mate. I share your concern, but this is bad information that gives bad ideas that are not true. Yes, some animals die because of us. But not that many, nor is it going to be that many.
Joey
Yeah, you just saw an elephant on TV. So, obviously there must be nothing to worry about. :roll:
You could read the link. I realize that's a challenge, but it's better than just rolling your eyes and dismissing a counter view out of hand.
First off, it's the Federalist. So, I read it with a skeptical eye. Second off, the mass extinction happening today is not limited to a few already endangered creatures on islands as the silly article claims. The current die off is occurring on every continent and ocean. But, I am sure a biased publication like the Federaist will not ever admit that.
I'm sure this is not what God had in mind.
Nice interactive below to scroll through sums up the 6th mass extinction, one caused exclusively by man.
The extinction crisis is far worse than you think
A few other follow up articles.
Imagine a world without giraffes - CNN.com
The old man and the bee - CNN.com
EDGE :: Top 100 EDGE Amphibians
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_extinction
Greetings, humbolt. :2wave:
The link you provided was excellent! :thumbs: I remember the predictions made about global cooling - which are listed in the link you provided - and how frightening they were to many people at the time who thought they were surely going to freeze to death, but...... fortunately it didn't happen.
Now we have the AGW doomsday scenario instead, and yet the "climate experts" seem to get angry and sarcastically dismissive when skeptics question the picture that is being painted about all the horrible scenarios that are probable if this new threat to our well-being isn't handled immediately, or at least sooner rather than later.
Has trust in the area of scientific climate studies, which uses models to determine possible future climate events, left millions of suspicious people silently wondering WTH is going on, since it sounds like it's going to cost them money? :shock:
The link is simple history. Yes, all of this hype seems to require immediate action before we all die. It's a figurative gun put to the heads of average people all across the globe in what amounts to an historic attempt at a shakedown of the developed world. I don't know about you, but I require a more substantial proof than any offered to date before I'll sign up. The data supporting their conclusions appears to be more than shaky. A lot of it appears to be flat out made up.
The link, as it relates to mass extinction, is a joke.
The main argument seems to be that it hasn't been a sudden extinction, but there's a good argument to be made that the last extinction events happened over thousands of years, which is exactly the situation we are in now.
Anthropomorphic extinction? The Furries are going extinct? Mickey Mouse and Bugs Bunny gone? OMG!
It's pretty bad. That much we know.
The link, as it relates to mass extinction, is a joke.
The main argument seems to be that it hasn't been a sudden extinction, but there's a good argument to be made that the last extinction events happened over thousands of years, which is exactly the situation we are in now.
Yes sure. The meteor came down very slowly and kept bouncing up and down and nocking out the dinosaurs one by one in a few thousand years time. Duhh. It was sudden and the results were felt for a few thousand years to come. The main extinction was in the hours/days after Earth was hit. Many more were wiped out in the years after. Besides that, on the timescale of Earth even a thousand years is very very sudden.
Joey
I assume you are talking about the KT boundary extinction, which was the last. We dont really know what the timeline was there. Maybe it was a few years, maybe a few thousand, maybe 20,000 years, maybe longer. Geological formations dont tell us about periods shorter than geological time.
But there are other extinction events, for example the Permian-Triassic, which may have taken 60,000 years or more. The Ordovucian-Silurian extinction was bimodal and the peaks were seperated by hundreds of thousands of years. The Triassic-Jurassic extinction seems to have been seperated into two or three phases over 18 million years.
So clearly, the article that tells us the reason that we are not in a mass extinction is because all the other extinctions happened quickly is... a joke. But for some reason, some of the clowns dont get that its a joke. Odd.
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