Science denialists SUCK >:(I think we must distinguish between Science and SCIENTISTS and then deal with the extent to which SCIENTISTS are obligated to make themselves understood. Science does not talk. Only scientists do that. People who worship SCIENCE that they do not understand are pseudo-intellectual nitwits. psik Give us an example of someone who worships science. Names would be appreciated.
qWhat other species has existed under a wider range of climatic conditions than Man? psikBacteria. The same species of bacteria survive under freezing and hot conditions? psik Cockroaches. Ants will survive.
And not to get into further debate with this member who seems to have their own version of "science", but there is no event that will destroy oxygen. Billions of animals constantly convert atmospheric oxygen into CO2, the only reason that free oxygen doesn't quickly disappear is that billion of photosynthetic organisms quickly turn that CO2 back into free oxygen. What happens when we cause so much ecological damage that this natural cycle is seriously compromised as during the end Permian event. Only the smallest animals with the lowest oxygen requirements survived that extinction.The atmosphere is 20% oxygen. The CO2 is measured in Parts Per Million. 400 PPM comes to 0.0004 or 0.04%. So you are suggesting that something is going to kill off plants so much faster than animals that the percentage of oxygen is going to change enough to matter? And then you want to bring up the Permian Extinction of 250,000,000 years ago. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permian–Triassic_extinction_event And you want to call the comparison science.
The climate change may have taken as little as 100,000 yearsSo even if our climate change takes as little as 500 years how much might an intelligent species do in that time? Calculus is just over 300 years old. The "elimination" of 5 billion people would reduce the problem considerably. But 5 billion people are not going to go peacefully. I expect that to be a bigger mess than the climate. psik
And all previous extinctions have been of unintelligent animals which had no idea what was happening.Psik, does the concept "food chain" add up to anything? Of course. Didn't some species survive through all known mass extinction events? If they didn't we wouldn't be here. But you have no mass extinction events where an intelligent species that knew what was happening had to cope. We are arguing about speculation. psik Many of us wouldn't be here anyway. It doesn't only depend on "intelligence." Many intelligent creatures lost the battle and continue to lose the battles of survival. Eventually, it's a numbers game. It had less to do with intelligence than a myriad of other factors nobody had any control over. Don't pat yourself on the back for "being here." Both you and your ancesters had almost nothing to do with it. You have been a product of pure chance with some survival of the fittest thrown in--as will be your descendants. Lois
berrens.nl: degree by degree review of CAGW
I came across an interesting, actually frightening article at A degree by degree explanation of what will happen when the earth warms.
It actually seems like a conservative review since it assumes certain systems
particularly transportation, power supply and global communications
have a resilience that I don’t think can stand up to the various challenges coming their way.
Still it’s a sobering review of what the known Earth Sciences have to tell us about the direction
we are taking our one and only home planet.
“A degree by degree explanation of what will happen when the earth warms”
qWhat other species has existed under a wider range of climatic conditions than Man? psikBacteria. 'Water bears' would certainly qualify. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tardigrade
qWhat other species has existed under a wider range of climatic conditions than Man? psikBacteria. The same species of bacteria survive under freezing and hot conditions? psik Water bears do. They also survive outer space.
Water bears do. They also survive outer space.What goes on here? People say things and don't provide a link. psik
They don’t come much tougher than Mike the Durable, as he is remembered. Except in the microscopic world beneath our feet, where there lives what is perhaps the toughest creature on Earth: the tardigrade. Also known as the water bear (because it looks like an adorable little many-legged bear), this exceedingly tiny critter has an incredible resistance to just about everything. Go ahead and boil it, freeze it, irradiate it, and toss it into the vacuum of space — it won’t die. If it were big enough to eat a glass sandwich, it probably could survive that too.
qWhat other species has existed under a wider range of climatic conditions than Man? psikBacteria. The same species of bacteria survive under freezing and hot conditions? psik Water bears do. They also survive outer space. Water bears are the coolest ! :coolsmile:
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