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    Default Two minutes to midnight: Scientists issue second warning...

    Thousands of scientists issue bleak 'second notice' to humanity

    In late 1992, 1,700 scientists from around the world issued a dire “warning to humanity.” They said humans had pushed Earth's ecosystems to their breaking point and were well on the way to ruining the planet. The letter listed environmental impacts like they were biblical plagues — stratospheric ozone depletion, air and water pollution, the collapse of fisheries and loss of soil productivity, deforestation, species loss and catastrophic global climate change caused by the burning of fossil fuels.

    If not checked,” wrote the scientists, led by particle physicist and Union of Concerned Scientists co-founder Henry Kendall, “many of our current practices put at serious risk the future that we wish for human society and the plant and animal kingdoms, and may so alter the living world that it will be unable to sustain life in the manner that we know.”

    But things were only going to get worse.

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    To mark the letter's 25th anniversary, researchers have issued a bracing follow-up. In a communique published Monday in the journal BioScience, more than 15,000 scientists from 184 countries assess the world's latest responses to various environmental threats. Once again, they find us sorely wanting.
    “Humanity has failed to make sufficient progress in generally solving these foreseen environmental challenges, and alarmingly, most of them are getting far worse,” they write.

    This letter, spearheaded by Oregon State University ecologist William Ripple, serves as a “second notice,” the authors say: “Soon it will be too late to shift course away from our failing trajectory.”

    Global climate change sits atop the new letter's list of planetary threats. Global average temperatures have risen by more than half a degree Celsius since 1992, and annual carbon dioxide emissions have increased by 62 percent.

    But it's far from the only problem people face. Access to fresh water has declined, as has the amount of forestland and the number of wild-caught fish (a marker of the health of global fisheries). The number of ocean dead zones has increased. The human population grew by a whopping 2 billion, while the populations of all other mammals, reptiles, amphibians and fish have declined by nearly 30 percent.

    The lone bright spot exists way up in the stratosphere, where the hole in the planet's protective ozone layer has shrunk to its smallest size since 1988. Scientists credit that progress to the phasing out of chlorofluorocarbons — chemicals once used in refrigerators, air conditioners and aerosol cans that trigger reactions in the atmosphere to break down ozone.

    “The rapid global decline in ozone depleting substances shows that we can make positive change when we act decisively,” the letter says.
    The authors offer 13 suggestions for reining in our impact on the planet, including establishing nature reserves, reducing food waste, developing green technologies and establishing economic incentives to shift patterns of consumption.

    To this end, Ripple and his colleagues have formed a new organization, the Alliance of World Scientists, aimed at providing a science-based perspective on issues affecting the well-being of people and the planet.

    “Scientists are in the business of analyzing data and looking at the long-term consequences,” Ripple said in a release. “Those who signed this second warning aren't just raising a false alarm. They are acknowledging the obvious signs that we are heading down an unsustainable path. We are hoping that our paper will ignite a widespread public debate about the global environment and climate.”

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    The sky is not falling, the globe is not warming and no the sea is not rising.
    Chill out, enjoy this beautiful planet, God did not create man with enough power to destroy his work
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    Quote Originally Posted by Getin the ring View Post
    The sky is not falling, the globe is not warming and no the sea is not rising.
    Chill out, enjoy this beautiful planet, God did not create man with enough power to destroy his work
    Silly.

    Reefs are dying, habitat is being lost every day, there is a "dead zone" in the Gulf of Mexico that is thousands of square miles. Polluted air, water & soil. And we're only a couple hundred years into the Industrial Revolution.

    How is it possible for people to have these kinds of blinders on?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cypress View Post

    B*******

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    Quote Originally Posted by Getin the ring View Post
    The sky is not falling, the globe is not warming and no the sea is not rising.
    Chill out, enjoy this beautiful planet, God did not create man with enough power to destroy his work
    You know what? Your opinion doesn't matter. Not one little, tiny bit.
    You are not a trained research scientist, you do not publish peer reviewed research, and you do not have a position of authority on any national or international decisions-making bodies.

    I suggest you limit yourself to blathering about how much you worship the Orange Fat Ass, gossiping about inane social trivia, or blabbing about sports. Because you clearly do not have the aptitude, training, or education to talk about global scientific topics.

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    relax, this earth has been here for billions of years and knows how to take care of itself. If it gets to the point that it feels another mass extinction event needs to happen, so be it.
    A sad commentary on we, as a people, and our viewpoint of our freedom can be summed up like this. We have liberals and conservatives, Democrats and Republicans, yet those very people look at Constitutionalists as radical and extreme.................so those liberals and conservatives, Democrats and Republicans must believe that the constitution is radical and extreme.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cypress View Post
    According to the article, there has been a 62% increase in CO2 emissions. I've found the cause. Those 1,700 idiots selling their global warming snake oil have continued to run their dick suckers about this nonsense and every time they exhale they emit more CO2. I've also found the solution. Every one of them and those that believe them should voluntarily stop breathing immediately. You'd be amazed at just how much CO2 emissions would decrease.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Thing1 View Post
    How is it possible for people to have these kinds of blinders on?
    it comes from listening to idiot lib'ruls tell us that Florida is going to be under ten feet of sea water......

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cypress View Post
    You know what? Your opinion doesn't matter. Not one little, tiny bit.
    You are not a trained research scientist, you do not publish peer reviewed research, and you do not have a position of authority on any national or international decisions-making bodies.

    I suggest you limit yourself to blathering about how much you worship the Orange Fat Ass, gossiping about inane social trivia, or blabbing about sports. Because you clearly do not have the aptitude, training, or education to talk about global scientific topics.

    I suggest you get back in kiss Obama's black ass line before you lose your place. You know what? You're opinion doesn't mean shit in a nigger's back yard. Not one little, tiny bit.

    When the peers that are reviewing the research have the same agenda as the idiots doing the research, the level of validity to that review is the same as asking a fox with feathers in his mouth whether or not he raided the hen house then believing him when he says no.

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    Quote Originally Posted by PostmodernProphet View Post
    it comes from listening to idiot lib'ruls tell us that Florida is going to be under ten feet of sea water......

    Based on what those idiot lib'ruls have been saying, shouldn't it have already happened?

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    Quote Originally Posted by CFM View Post
    Based on what those idiot lib'ruls have been saying, shouldn't it have already happened?
    maybe not the whole ten feet, but it should be up to their ankles by now......

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    Quote Originally Posted by PostmodernProphet View Post
    maybe not the whole ten feet, but it should be up to their ankles by now......
    It's not even there.

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    Red face

    We need to destroy the "turn earth into Venus" oil lobby. Is is ethical to slaughter them? Seriously. If slaughtering them can save millions now and 100s of billions in the future isn't it immoral not to murder them?

    I say we murder all Republicans.

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    Quote Originally Posted by CFM View Post
    According to the article, there has been a 62% increase in CO2 emissions. I've found the cause. Those 1,700 idiots selling their global warming snake oil have continued to run their dick suckers about this nonsense and every time they exhale they emit more CO2. I've also found the solution. Every one of them and those that believe them should voluntarily stop breathing immediately. You'd be amazed at just how much CO2 emissions would decrease.
    ^^^^^
    Another flaccid attempt at rightwing humour, folks.

    Any more questions about why the best comedians are almost always liberal lefties?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Getin the ring View Post
    The sky is not falling, the globe is not warming and no the sea is not rising.
    Chill out, enjoy this beautiful planet, God did not create man with enough power to destroy his work
    Really? Man has caused the extinction of any number of species. That “work” was destroyed.

    What kind of feckless god do you worship?

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