(Iconoclast William James).
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: . . . 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.
:
: 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. That is merely a prediction from
: climate change models – computer programs
: written by 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.
:
: 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.” 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.
:
: We plough on In 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.
:
: “In almost half the species looked at, there
: have been local extinctions already,” he
: said. Biology101 again, Prof – it’s been
: happening ever since life appeared on earth.
:
: 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].
:
: “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.” 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?
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