. . . particularly on East Speedway Boulevard outside Arizona University. However, some don’t seem to have adverted to it as they have been driving to work at the University. One in particular is Professor John Weins of Arizona University, who recently published Half the world's species failing to cope with global warming as Earth races towards its sixth mass extinction Sensational! The drama of it – MASS EXTINCTION, no less, and RACING towards it!
Those of us experiencing a very cool start to summer here in Melbourne should be wondering anew how they manage to keep this global warming hoax going.
The article is headed by a photo of earth as seen from space – looking as beautiful as ever. But no – we have to be alarmed into adopting the correct political narrative by the opening paragraphs:Nearly half the species on the planet are failing to cope with the global warming the world has already experienced, according to an alarming new study that suggests the sixth mass extinction of animal life in the Earth’s history could take place in as little as 50 years.
That’s right – it’s all happened before, and not always as the result of catastrophes. Of course, we are leading up to that particularly nasty gas, man-made carbon dioxide, which we all must be coached, bored, dragooned, whatever, into believing is destroying the world, not because of scientific evidence that that is happening, but simply because that is the correct political narrative we must be convinced to accept. Biology101 is where one learns of the coming and going of species long before man started making carbon dioxide, indeed, before man started making anything, even men.
The article continues:A leading evolutionary biologist, Professor John Wiens, found that 47 per cent of nearly 1,000 species had suffered local extinctions linked to climate change with populations absent from areas where they had been found before.
Nothing else? Just climate change? And even if that assertion is true, is man-made carbon dioxide the only possible cause of said climate change?
Can you stand some more? Go on, I managed it:Professor Wiens, who is editor of the Quarterly Review of Biology and a winner of the American Society of Naturalists’ president’s award, said the implications for the future were serious because his review showed plants and animals were struggling to deal with the relatively small amount of global warming experienced to date.
That is merely a prediction from climate change models – computer programs written by
So far the world has warmed by about 1C above pre-industrial levels, but it is expected to hit between 2.6 and 4.8C by 2100 if nothing is done to reduce greenhouse gases.scientists, well, people, anyway, keen to prove that man-made carbon dioxide is the only factor causing global warming, which warming, as I previously noted, is observable by alarmist scientists and politicians only, not by the man in the street, particularly those in Melbourne wearing their fleecies for the first couple of hours this morning. And what has been the success rate of predictions to date based on those models? Answer: FAILURE. Crops worldwide are not failing but increasing, glaciers are not disappearing and dams are filling despite alarmist predictions that they would never fill again.
Let’s control the nausea and tackle the next paragraph:Another problem facing life on Earth is the election of climate science denier Donald Trump as US President.
There you have it – if you don’t like Trump, blame him for the impending loss of some poor little critters and you’ll win the support of all the unthinking Lefties looking for a conservative to hate. And in true Lefty spirit, bemoan the death of non-humans while wishing death on your political opponents.
Professor Wiens, of Arizona University, described this as a “global disaster” and, when asked what he would say to the President-elect if he met him, he joked grimly: “Kill yourself immediately.”
We plough onIn his study, published in the journal PLOS Biology, the scientist examined academic papers about 976 different species from all over the world that had been studied at least twice, once about 50 years ago and again within the last 10 years.
Biology101 again, Prof – it’s been happening ever since life appeared on earth.
“In almost half the species looked at, there have been local extinctions already,” he said.
And:“This is stuff that’s already happened with just a small change to the climate. We’re looking at a two to five-fold increase [in warming over the next century].
Again, a prediction from demonstrably flawed computer models, and even if climate change is responsible for the demise of some species, what proof is there that man-made carbon dioxide is responsible for it?
“What it shows is species cannot change fast enough to keep up with a small change in climate. That’s the big implication – even a small change in temperature and they cannot handle it.”
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