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Title: Humans at risk of extinction due to climate change
Source: Science Recorder
URL Source: http://www.sciencerecorder.com/news ... due-climate-change-study-says/
Published: Aug 14, 2015
Author: Delila James
Post Date: 2015-08-14 12:03:46 by Willie Green
Keywords: None
Views: 3743
Comments: 18

A new study published in the journal Nature Communications finds that even geographically widespread species with large populations, like human beings, may not be spared during a global mass extinction.

Living species have experienced five mass extinction events during Earth’s history. All were due to some kind of rapid environmental change, including climate change, caused by massive volcanic eruptions and asteroid impacts.

The last mass extinction happened some 65 million years ago when the dinosaurs and more than 75 percent of all other species perished due to the Chicxulub asteroid impact off what is now the Yucatán peninsula.

In the 21st century, with dozens of species disappearing every day at a rate thousands of times faster than normal, many scientists believe Earth is entering its sixth major extinction event. The reason: the rapid warming of global temperatures due to human activities, particularly the burning of fossil fuels.

Now, a new study published in the journal Nature Communications, finds that even geographically widespread species with large populations, like human beings, may not be spared during a global mass extinction.

Researchers from the School of Earth and Environment at the University of Leeds and the University of Bath’s Milner Centre for Evolution in the UK studied the fossil record of land-dwelling vertebrates living 252 to 145 million years ago during the Triassic and Jurassic periods, a statement by the University of Leeds said.

While a species’ distribution over wide geographical areas does offer a kind of insurance against extinction, that insurance becomes null and void during a mass extinction event, the researchers found.

“The fact that the insurance against extinction given by a wide geographical distribution disappears at a known mass extinction even is an important result,” says Dr. Alex Dunhill of the University of Leeds in the statement. “Many groups of crocodile-like animals became extinct after the mass extinction event at the end of the Triassic era, despite being really diverse and widespread beforehand.”

What does this mean for humans? No one really knows for sure, but the prospects do not look good.

“These results shed light on the likely outcome of the current biodiversity crisis caused by human activity,” Dr. Dunhill adds. “It appears a human-driven sixth mass extinction will affect all organisms, not just currently endangered and geographically restricted species.”

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“These results shed light on the likely outcome of the current biodiversity crisis caused by human activity,” Dr. Dunhill adds. “It appears a human-driven sixth mass extinction will affect all organisms, not just currently endangered and geographically restricted species.”

Lol, you people are quite insane.

Thankfully, fewer and fewer buy into this bullshit every year.

Dead Culture Watch  posted on  2015-08-14   12:22:11 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#4. To: Dead Culture Watch, Stoner, CZ82 (#2)

Lol, you people are quite insane. Thankfully, fewer and fewer buy into this bullshit every year.

True. But they haven't given up. Insane zombies are in positions of power (like the Presidency and his admin) and about to kill the entire coal industry and trying to dry up our agriculture life-blood in California over this hoax.

Btw -- you checked out the money quote from Dr. Alex (Clouseau) Dunhill?:

"What does this mean for humans? No one really knows for sure, but the prospects do not look good."

Get that? It "doesn't look good" for us. Have you unpacked your portable blow-up caskets yet?? Cuz...prospects for living forever "don't look good!!" And just when we do go, "no one really knows for sure." Gee, thanks Dr. Clouseau.

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#10. To: Liberator (#4)

I still remember when these bunch of nuts were predicting that by now the US would be covered in 20ft of ice, LOL!!!

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#13. To: Stoner (#10)

I still remember when these bunch of nuts were predicting that by now the US would be covered in 20ft of ice, LOL!!!

Yeah, I know...that OR the coasts drowned beneath a sea that's 20ft deeper BUT have no fear! There's always a Nuclear Winter.

;-)

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