PUSHING SPECIES TO THE BRINK
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71 percent of warm-water reef-building corals are threatened by likely
climate change, according to a report prepared by the International
Union for the Conservation of Nature presented to the World
Conservation Congress being held in Barcelona.
The report found that 3,438 of the world's 9,856 bird species have at
least one out of 11 traits that are susceptible to climate change.
Albatross, penguin, petrel and shearwater families are all likely to
be threatened by a warming planet while heron and egret families, and
osprey, kite, hawk and eagle families are among those least likely to
be susceptible to climate change.
"This is the first time that a systematic assessments of species'
susceptibility to climate change has been attempted," said Wendy
Foden, of IUCN's Species Programme. "Climate change is already
happening, but conservation decision makers currently have very little
guidance on which species are going to be the worst affected."
The study identified 3,217 of the 6,222 amphibians in the world that
are likely to be susceptible to climate change. Three salamander
families are could be particularly susceptible, while 80-100 percent
of Seychelles frogs and Indian Burrowing Frogs, Australian ground
frogs, horned toads and glassfrog families were assessed as
susceptible.
The report found that 566 of 799 warm-water reef-building coral
species are likely to be susceptible to the impacts of climate change
According to the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, 32 percent of
amphibians are threatened with extinction. Of these, 75 percent are
susceptible to climate change while 41 percent of non-threatened
species are susceptible to climate change. For birds, the overall
percentage of those threatened with extinction is lower - 12 percent.
However, 80 percent of those are susceptible to climate change.
"There is a large overlap between threatened and climate change
susceptible amphibian and bird species," says Jean-Christophe Vi?,
Deputy Head of IUCN Species Programme.
"Climate change may cause a sharp rise in the risk and rate of
extinction of currently threatened species. But we also want to
highlight species, which are currently not threatened but are likely
to become so as climate change impacts intensify. By doing this we
hope to promote preemptive and more effective conservation action."
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Thirty-five percent of the world's birds, 52 percent of amphibians and
71 percent of warm-water reef-building corals are threatened by likely
climate change, according to a report prepared by the International
Union for the Conservation of Nature presented to the World
Conservation Congress being held in Barcelona.
Extinction Rate Of “No-Name” Species Is A Shocking 30,000!
Peter Foster
May 30, 2008
[…]
Mr. Harper went to Europe. On Wednesday he spoke in Bonn to the summit
on the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD).
[…]
The Bonn summit was the usual cast of thousands UN gabfest, at which
myriad expensive new bureaucratic initiatives were announced against a
background of ritual doom and gloom. The Convention on Biological
Diversity emerged from the policy swamp of Rio in 1990, along with its
even uglier cousin, the treaty on climate change. The CBD’s modest
commitment is to “preserving life on Earth,” which requires that life on
Earth be seen to be in ever-greater peril.
Climate change is said to threaten a biotic holocaust. This is on top of
the horror of the tens of thousands of species that are already
disappearing annually due to pesky human activity.
Tragically, nobody can name any of these species because although we’re
wiping them out, they haven’t yet been discovered. The carnage is taking
place entirely in computers. This makes “progress” on the issue a bit of
a problem. Still, since enviro-hysteria is about faith not facts, and
votes not reason, Mr. Harper chose to sing in Bonn from the
bio-hymnbook.
“Despite the best efforts of the signatories to the convention,” he
said, “we are still losing wildlife species at an alarming rate.”
Mr. Harper knew he was entirely safe from anybody asking him exactly how
alarming the rate was, because — as suggested — there’s a bit of a range
of opinion on that. The official recorded rate of extinction over the
past 500 years is between one and two species a year. The “consensus” by
UN authorities and their fellow travelers on the annual rate of
extinction of all those No Name species is around 30,000.
That’s quite a difference.
Mr. Harper knew he was not about to be contradicted when he said that
“We must do more if we are to achieve our 2010 objectives for a
significant reduction in the rate of worldwide biodiversity loss.”
Presumably the only way you can reduce a rate of biodiversity loss based
entirely on alarmist assumptions is to change the assumptions. So my
modest prediction is that the 2010 target will be missed, and that we
will henceforth be told we have to redouble well-expensed efforts to
spread ever more gloom and doom, and Western taxpayers’ money.
It is obvious that an expanding human population, and economic growth,
put pressure on the habitats of the millions of other species on Earth.
However, humans also happen to be the only species that cares about
other life forms and seeks to preserve them.
Unfortunately, it is also the only species that has a Machiavellian mind
that exploits human concerns, and human ignorance, in pursuit of power.
The ecosystem for that complex Darwinian struggle is called democratic
politics. Conservatives tend to be more aware of the dangers of those
who seek massive coercive powers to do good, or avert evil.
Radical environmentalists, by contrast, would like to subvert democracy
completely. They want to throw Noah off the Ark.
Mr. Harper’s earnestness on biodiversity was matched by his heartfelt
concern about the alleged European perception that Canada is not
serious — that is, not suicidal — when it comes to climate change
policy.
Media reports suggested that Mr. Harper had to “sell” his climate change
plan to the Europeans, but European electorates are not the slightest
bit interested in anything that Mr. Harper is selling. They are up in
arms about their own politicians’ expensive and pointless schemes.
For example, Gordon Brown’s newest climate change-related transport tax
proposals have led to public and party revolt, and have been called a
“poll tax on wheels.” The poll tax, you may remember, was the measure
that led to the undoing of Ms. Thatcher in 1990. Mr. Brown is no
Margaret Thatcher. Paul Martin, maybe.
Mr. Harper’s climate policy crime is that he has declared less
unachievable targets for Canada than those trumpeted by European
politicians. EU members are still hanging on to Kyoto’s 1990 reference
point for emissions reduction targets, while Mr. Harper is suggesting
that the sensible place to start when discussing future emissions
reductions is right now (or at least 2006). He also wants environmental
programs to be, as he told his London audience yesterday, “realistic,
practical and achievable.”
Is he crazy? That’s not the climate change/biodiversity game at all.
Doesn’t he realize that the point is to stop industrial society as we
know it? Anybody in doubt should just mark the words of Achim Steiner,
head of the UN Environment Programme. In Bonn this week, Mr. Steiner
said “We have a misdirected economic compass — we have arranged our
economies in a way that they destroy their environmental foundations.”
If only he and his retread socialist brethren could have another chance
at “arranging” the global economy.
Mr. Harper vowed on Wednesday to get past the “empty rhetoric” on
climate change action. But then surely empty rhetoric is way better than
self-destructive, nonsensical commitment to the warped projections of
global envirocrats.
Warmest Regards
Bonzo
“From 1870 to 1900, we had global cooling, then we had significant
global warming from about 1910 to 1945. That global warming is not
accompanied by any significant rise in CO2, so you can’t blame CO2. Then
CO2 increased while we had global cooling. You can’t blame that on CO2.
It’s only been the last 30 years there’s been correlation between CO2
and global warming” Dr. Don J. Easterbrook, Professor Emeritus Geology,
Western Washington University
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Thirty-five percent of the world's birds, 52 percent of amphibians and
71 percent of warm-water reef-building corals are threatened by likely
climate change, according to a report prepared by the International
Union for the Conservation of Nature presented to the World
Conservation Congress being held in Barcelona.
Mass Extinction Fraud, Another In A Long. Long Line From The Rabid
Greenies
On the subject of actual numbers of Extinctions of species.
Here is a graphic of Bird extinctions starting in 1630 which suggests
there was a peak in the extinction rate around 100 years ago. This runs
counter to the wildly exaggerated numbers that various Green groups have
claimed for a couple of decades (with the help of the media).
I prepared this graph in the early 1990's from IUCN Red Books and will
update when I find more recent data.
I think the cause of this peak could be 19C European migration to
islands and places where our imported cats, rats and pigs caused havoc
with many birds and habitats.
On another quest to uncover hard evidence of extinction rates I recall
putting in many hours in the Monash library reviewing international
Zoological abstracts at length looking for published evidence of
extinctions. I was forced to the conclusion that global extinctions
noted in papers are probably less than the fingers of one hand each year
as opposed to the circa 50,000 per annum bandied around in the media by
Green groups.
I am offering free web space to put up a list of extinctions year by
year. Please email to sanur2007(at sign)warwickhughes.com
http://www.warwickhughes.com/species/
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Warmest Regards
Bonzo
“IPCC staff is working feverishly on a theory that supports global
cooling as proof of global warming. Stay tuned.” Addison Gardner
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> In less than 1kyr all megafauna (inc us will be extinct ) as the seas
> will
> turn acid and the oxygen in the atmosphere will turn into H2SO4
>
ROTFLMAO
Mass Extinction Fraud, Another In A Long. Long Line From The Rabid
Greenies
On the subject of actual numbers of Extinctions of species.
Here is a graphic of Bird extinctions starting in 1630 which suggests
there was a peak in the extinction rate around 100 years ago. This runs
counter to the wildly exaggerated numbers that various Green groups have
claimed for a couple of decades (with the help of the media).
I prepared this graph in the early 1990's from IUCN Red Books and will
update when I find more recent data.
I think the cause of this peak could be 19C European migration to
islands and places where our imported cats, rats and pigs caused havoc
with many birds and habitats.
On another quest to uncover hard evidence of extinction rates I recall
putting in many hours in the Monash library reviewing international
Zoological abstracts at length looking for published evidence of
extinctions. I was forced to the conclusion that global extinctions
noted in papers are probably less than the fingers of one hand each year
as opposed to the circa 50,000 per annum bandied around in the media by
Green groups.
I am offering free web space to put up a list of extinctions year by
year. Please email to sanur2007(at sign)warwickhughes.com
http://www.warwickhughes.com/species/
Warnest Regards
Bonzo
"There is a clear attempt to establish truth not by scientific methods
but by perpetual repetition." Richard S. Lindzen, Ph.D. Professor of
Meteorology, MIT
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April 3 2008
Not every academic wants to up the alarmist ante:
Global extinctions are rarer than commonly believed and the extinction
debate is too narrowly focused on pin-up images of charismatic birds and
mammals, an Australian zoologist says.
Instead, Professor Nigel Stork of the University of Melbourne urges
greater focus on threats facing invertebrates and local extinctions.
Professor Stork says statements about “100 extinctions a day” have
become accepted, cited by organisations such as the United Nations and
repeated in the popular media. But Professor Stork believes the science
does not back this…
The University of Melbourne’s Australian Centre of Excellence for Risk
Analysis director Professor Mark Burgman agrees and says extinction data
is “certainly skewed”.
This kind of anti-scaring won’t do Professor Stork’s chances of scaring
up some grants any good at all, I’m afraid.
Still he is a global warmingist, so all is not lost.
--
Warmest Regards
Bonzo
“… researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Solar Research in Germany
report the sun has been burning more brightly over the last 60 years,
accounting for the 1 degree Celsius increase in Earth's temperature over
the last 100 years.”
http://ibdeditorial.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=287279412587175
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Warming
March 31 2008
Warming alarmists are sure not an endangered species:
Humans are causing such unprecedented climatic change and mass
extinctions it is creating a new geological age, according to a leading
environmental scientist. The planet is already amid a ”human-induced
mass extinction event ‘’ which is defining a new geological age known as
the Anthropocene, says Professor Will Steffen, director of the Centre
for Resource and Environmental Studies at Canberra’s Australian National
University… With no one sure what the tipping point was, the best course
of action was to mitigate climate change and reduce greenhouse gas
emissions as soon as possible, he said.
Really?
Could Steffen name, say, just 10 of the species that have so far been
wiped out by this “human-induced mass extinction event” in the 40-odd
years of alleged human-induced global warming?
Warmest Regards
Bonzo
“We have to get rid of the Mediæval Warm Period” Confided to
geophysicist David Deming by the IPCC (1995)