| Weather 19:40 - Aug 12 with 4512 views | CountyJim |
We really are the laughing stock of Europe
We have a week of sun believe it or not it's summer but the press are moaning the farmers are moaning but you can't please a farmer can you if it's to feckin wet they moan
Europe get summers like this every year
Just enjoy it next week it's going to rain and then it will be the wrong type of rain FFS
You listen to the older generation every summer the sun never set in summer and every Christmas it snowed they don't half talk some bollox |  | | |  |
| Weather on 19:29 - Aug 24 with 403 views | Flashberryjack |
| Weather on 19:04 - Aug 24 by Scotia |
No they're not, they occur over thousands of years, even the Cretaceous / Tertiary extinction took thousands of years to develop. That was caused by a sudden event (a massive meteor hitting the earth).
Most are caused by a change in climate over thousands of years, we're accelerating that process in to 100's of years.
We are experiencing the largest loss in biodiversity ever seen in geological history (Pro rata) over a 100 or so year period. This is a mass extinction event.
Today it appears that the Dugong has been confirmed extinct as a result of pollution, hunting and loss of habitat. The problem is that habitat is sea grass which absorbs massive quantities of Co2 for its mass.
It's not just emissions we need to reduce. |
Animals that have become extinct over the last 100 years
Paradise parrot. Passenger pigeon. Sicilian Wolf. Japanese sea lion. Bubal hartebeest.
Tasmanian tiger. Heath hen. The Golden Toad.
In the last 100 years the world population has quadrupled from two to eight billion people despite two major world wars, plus many smaller wars, etc.
Over population is the biggest problem to the planet, how do we solve that ? |  |
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| Weather on 19:37 - Aug 24 with 399 views | Joesus_Of_Narbereth |
| Weather on 19:04 - Aug 24 by Scotia |
No they're not, they occur over thousands of years, even the Cretaceous / Tertiary extinction took thousands of years to develop. That was caused by a sudden event (a massive meteor hitting the earth).
Most are caused by a change in climate over thousands of years, we're accelerating that process in to 100's of years.
We are experiencing the largest loss in biodiversity ever seen in geological history (Pro rata) over a 100 or so year period. This is a mass extinction event.
Today it appears that the Dugong has been confirmed extinct as a result of pollution, hunting and loss of habitat. The problem is that habitat is sea grass which absorbs massive quantities of Co2 for its mass.
It's not just emissions we need to reduce. |
The general scientific consensus is that three of the five mass extinction events were caused by bursts of volcanic activity. The other was the chicxulub impact. The theories about the other one range from a burst of energy from a supernova to the formation of mountain ranges and dislodged continental shelves. Nobody really knows. |  |
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| Weather on 20:25 - Aug 24 with 363 views | Scotia |
| Weather on 19:29 - Aug 24 by Flashberryjack |
Animals that have become extinct over the last 100 years
Paradise parrot. Passenger pigeon. Sicilian Wolf. Japanese sea lion. Bubal hartebeest.
Tasmanian tiger. Heath hen. The Golden Toad.
In the last 100 years the world population has quadrupled from two to eight billion people despite two major world wars, plus many smaller wars, etc.
Over population is the biggest problem to the planet, how do we solve that ? |
Equality of life I'd suggest. A good example is the population history of Japan.
This is exactly what Bill Gates was on about when he said we could control population through vaccination. He didn't mean he was going to kill people but enable them to have fewer children because the vast majority would survive, they won't need the safety net of lots of children to do their daily work just to survive.
We also need to live more sustainably especially through what we eat. Less meat, fish and dairy but more vegetables. |  | | |
| Weather on 20:29 - Aug 24 with 355 views | Scotia |
| Weather on 19:37 - Aug 24 by Joesus_Of_Narbereth |
The general scientific consensus is that three of the five mass extinction events were caused by bursts of volcanic activity. The other was the chicxulub impact. The theories about the other one range from a burst of energy from a supernova to the formation of mountain ranges and dislodged continental shelves. Nobody really knows. |
Volcanic activity that released Co2 and caused climate change over thousands of years.
We'll never know for absolute certain but we know Co2 warms the atmosphere. That's indisputable unless you're conspiracy loon.
We can see significant volcanic activity in the geological rec followed by a massive reduction in biodiversity in the fossil record.
The one to consider is the Permian extinction, which may actually have been contributed to by the burning of coal deposits. | | | |
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