Reuters:
Australia's Great Barrier Reef, the world's largest living organism, is under grave threat from climate warming and coastal development, and its prospects of survival are "poor," a major new report found on Wednesday.
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If we are unable or unwilling to do something meaningful about pollution, there are many unpleasant things that will happen, beyond the thousands of species we have already caused to become extinct. The definition of "over-population" could be said to be that state-of-being wherein the number of humans on the planet is such that we are unable to prevent our pollution from destroying this planet's biosphere. By such a definition, the Earth is probably already overpopulated.
Forget about the idea of space travel enabling us to settle other worlds; we will likely destroy this world's ability to sustain productive life before we reach the point where we can explore the space beyond our own planetary system.
Yes, but no, mamacat; life will continue on, though we may bequeath this planet to cockroaches, bacteria and deep-sea vent life!
The advantages life will have this next time around will be that vent life is a lot more developed and will likely shorten the time it takes to re-colonize the land.
Rather depressing but increasingly likely as humanity continues to ignore what is increasingly obvious. -frown-
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I love the jargon of the "scientists" you folks hold in such esteem.
"could be" "possibly" "maybe...in the future" "might happen someday" "I heard a guy say so..."
And the mouth's of the gullible fall open.
Much better to listen to leaders of religion. Theirs is fact laden and unquestioned truth--unless you can think.
You no longer have to be scientist to see what is happening in any of these places. What the scientist are trying to figure out is how much time is left for a cure. But Scotty must know that?
With each post of yours that I read it becomes increasingly clear to me that you are among the most scientifically challenged among us.
Scientists very nearly never use words of certainty; it conveys an arrogance that most scientists eschew. We know that we don't know it all. "Could be", "possibly", and maybe" are common parts of competent scientific dialogue because they accurately convey the situation. Those who speak in absolutes and with certainty are most often wrong.
I recall reading within the last few years a study in which people were asked to rank themselves on their skills in a given domain and were then tested on their actual skills in that domain - for example, mathematics, language, or any of a number of others. This research revealed that the people who rated themselves low were usually among the most skilled and conversely that people who ranked themselves highly were among the least skilled. While not always true, it was such a good predictor that the researchers concluded that self-assessment is a pretty good inverse indicator of ability.
In this case, I see that your name tells me all I need know about your own self-assessment. You might try a little of the humility that scientists are famous for, especially when it comes to scientific topics...
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Who needs it anyway? I can't afford to go snorkeling on the other side of the planet.
mr bill?
""scientists belonging to the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that the Great Barrier Reef could be "functionally extinct" within decades, with deadly coral bleaching likely to be an annual occurrence by 2030.""
The UN has depopulation charter at its core. The other agenda is DISINFORMATION.
Mars Melt Hints at Solar, Not Human, Cause for Warming, Scientist Says
Feb 28, 2007 ... Ice caps are melting on both Earth and Mars. According to one researcher's controversial theory, this suggests that global warming has ...
news.nationalgeographic.com/.../070228-mars-warming.html
This is just so sad on so many levels. :(
I wish "Oh no!" was not in the headline. It makes it seem like its silly or made up. It might as well say "Oh No! Michelle Obama Wears a Cardigan!"
If i had a lot of money to donate, it would be to those coral farmers. I don't know how widespread it is now, but I would hope it catches on moreso
climate change or not..development will destroy everything.
Don't be fooled people. I have it on good authority, from a U.S. Senator named James Inhofe, that global climatic disruption is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated upon the American people.
I'm so glad there are men like him in the world, and unbiased sources of information such as that FOX News to carry his word across the land.
Can we have a hearty "Amen" from the congregation of The Church of the Republican Whores?
LOL! Brilliant satire about that pack of mercenary wolves on the right.
The scientist yearns to find and eventually know the truth;
The religious man wants the truth to fit his preconceived mold.
So, as a result...
The scientist alters his perception to conform to the facts;
The religious man tries to change the facts to conform to his beliefs.
Robert Anton Wilson, "Right Where You Are Sitting Now"
OneE, you are quite astute as to the underlying issue that separates progressives and conservatives. One believes in truth to be essential no matter the cost. The latter believes in superstition and rapture in spite of the cost.
Scientists are simply fallible people, led by emotion, greed and the "fact" that they must fit into the established truth, whether right or not.
You regard them too highly.
Those who ignore scientific studies in favor of political pandering are more than ignorant... they are destructive. Global climate change is real, man made or not.
Okay— so how is this strictly an Australian problem?! We have problems like this worldwide, and I am sick of seeing these articles that paint it to be a political and localized issue.
Just because this story is about the barrier reef doesn't mean the rest of the world isn't threatened, tool. Geez. Read much?
I'm sorry but I don't talk to creeps.
"Not a single announcement will reach the public without our control. Even now this is already being attained by us inasmuch as all news items are received by a few agencies, in whose offices they are focused from all parts of the world. These agencies will then be already entirely ours and will give publicity only to what we dictate to them".
House of Rothschild = Reuters
House of Rockefeller = UN
I am surprised Reuters did not superimpose the poster mother polar bear and cubs over the reef to mass induce society into feeling they are UNSUSTAINABLE.
Here is the 90 year old Rockefeller talking to some UN group: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClqUcScwnn8 about overpopulation (he being from a large family and recipient of the massive Standard Oil wealth).
If both Houses could be eliminated, the HYDROGEN economy would be released and people would have plentiful perfectly clean electricity. If both Houses could be eliminated a simple food wafer containing all the vitamins, minerals and nutrients would be developed to eliminate the massive environment degradation caused by food production.
This picture of our dormant SUN indicates we are in a 13 year period of global cooling: http://spaceweather.com/ . The UN climate panel will never reference the current state of the SUN which cyclically controls our weather.
Glenn wipe down your lap top and put it away. It's time for your pills.
At least gulls are in abundance. And bulls. No shortage there.
Put them together and you get...gullible.
Plenty on PuffPost.
This is tragic. In our lifetime we are destroying so many irreplaceable and beautiful things.
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You are duped, this is only another bogus story to promote leftist Socialist policies...
Sigh... I really hope Obama will focus more on education because comments like this make me cringe...
I really hope that is sarcasm
You are duped, but sadly, by the time you see it, it'll be too late. Happy suffocating!
Why is it that you are not a victim of the same malady?
Not one single troII ever gets past that one.
Trapped like the rats that they are.
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First Posted: 09- 2-09 01:46 PM | Updated: 09- 2-09 01:52 PM