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Post by lakhota on Jun 20, 2011 18:07:44 GMT -5
State Of The Ocean: 'Shocking' Report Warns Of Mass Extinction From Current Rate Of Marine DistressIf the current actions contributing to a multifaceted degradation of the world's oceans aren't curbed, a mass extinction unlike anything human history has ever seen is coming, an expert panel of scientists warns in an alarming new report. The preliminary report from the International Programme on the State of the Ocean (IPSO) is the result of the first-ever interdisciplinary international workshop examining the combined impact of all of the stressors currently affecting the oceans, including pollution, warming, acidification, overfishing and hypoxia. “The findings are shocking," Dr. Alex Rogers, IPSO's scientific director, said in a statement released by the group. "This is a very serious situation demanding unequivocal action at every level. We are looking at consequences for humankind that will impact in our lifetime, and worse, our children's and generations beyond that." The scientific panel concluded that degeneration in the oceans is happening much faster than has been predicted, and that the combination of factors currently distressing the marine environment is contributing to the precise conditions that have been associated with all major extinctions in the Earth's history. According to the report, three major factors have been present in the handful of mass extinctions that have occurred in the past: an increase of both hypoxia (low oxygen) and anoxia (lack of oxygen that creates "dead zones") in the oceans, warming and acidification. The panel warns that the combination of these factors will inevitably cause a mass marine extinction if swift action isn't taken to improve conditions. The report is the latest of several published in recent months examining the dire conditions of the oceans. A recent World Resources Institute report suggests that all coral reefs could be gone by 2050 if no action is taken to protect them, while a study published earlier this year in BioScience declares oysters as "functionally extinct", their populations decimated by over-harvesting and disease. Just last week scientists forecasted that this year's Gulf "dead zone" will be the largest in history due to increased runoff from the Mississippi River dragging in high levels of nitrates and phosphates from fertilizers. A recent study in the journal Nature, meanwhile, suggests that not only will the next mass extinction be man-made, but that it could already be underway. Unless humans make significant changes to their behavior, that is. The IPSO report calls for such changes, recommending actions in key areas: immediate reduction of CO2 emissions, coordinated efforts to restore marine ecosystems, and universal implementation of the precautionary principle so "activities proceed only if they are shown not to harm the ocean singly or in combination with other activities." The panel also calls for the UN to swiftly introduce an "effective governance of the High Seas." "The challenges for the future of the ocean are vast, but unlike previous generations we know what now needs to happen," Dan Laffoley of the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN) and co-author of the report said in a press release for the new report. "The time to protect the blue heart of our planet is now, today and urgent." www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/20/ipso-2011-ocean-report-mass-extinction_n_880656.html
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Post by lakhota on Jun 20, 2011 18:09:18 GMT -5
The above article has supporting links which can only be accessed by clicking on main link above.
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Post by ed1066 on Jun 20, 2011 18:45:56 GMT -5
LOL! Is this the new one now that global warming is out?
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Post by Mad Dawg Wiccan on Jun 20, 2011 18:51:19 GMT -5
I actually put some stock in this one. It's true that the oceans are being massively over fished.
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Post by lakhota on Jun 20, 2011 19:00:37 GMT -5
I actually put some stock in this one. It's true that the oceans are being massively over fished. That's interesting. You believe the oceans are being over fished. Are your sources for that better than your sources for global warming?
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Post by formerexpat on Jun 20, 2011 19:12:21 GMT -5
Less than $100m of funded research by the oil companies is biased but the billions used by the EU, UN, WHO, etc is not? Interesting.
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Post by ed1066 on Jun 20, 2011 19:30:44 GMT -5
Wow, when liberal politicians see that, they start drooling. That's like a license to steal (and censor, suppress, invade, take over, etc)...
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Post by verrip1 on Jun 20, 2011 19:51:18 GMT -5
YAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!
WE'RE ALL GONNA DIIIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Post by marshabar1 on Jun 20, 2011 19:52:11 GMT -5
Wow, when liberal politicians see that, they start drooling. That's like a license to steal (and censor, suppress, invade, take over, etc)...
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Post by Deleted on Jun 20, 2011 20:25:26 GMT -5
Gee you would think that tree huggers would drowned doing research on life in the oceans. Sorry but I don't believe any of this stuff unless Mr Internet (Al Gore) is in on it. Then I believe it even less.
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Post by lakhota on Jun 20, 2011 21:03:30 GMT -5
It warms my heart to see so many great American patriots say science is full of shit.
Liberal science BAD; Conservative science GOOD. Okay, I get it now...
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Post by lakhota on Jun 20, 2011 21:30:19 GMT -5
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Post by cme1201 on Jun 21, 2011 8:14:10 GMT -5
Great, We can make the contestants take evolution and elocution lessons at the same time.
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Post by Driftr on Jun 21, 2011 8:18:37 GMT -5
It warms my heart to see so many great American patriots say science is full of shit. Liberal science BAD; Conservative science GOOD. Okay, I get it now... The truly sad thing is that there are two 'schools' of science.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 21, 2011 8:26:02 GMT -5
Is it just me, or is it a fact that liberals have trouble staying on topic when faced with evidence to the contrary, of what they believe is true.
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Post by wyouser on Jun 21, 2011 10:38:07 GMT -5
look at the bright side..if global extinction were to occur we would finally get rid of ALL incumbant politicians....And no one would ever be exposed to another paid political announcement.
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Post by bubblyandblue on Jun 21, 2011 10:41:16 GMT -5
For some years now we humans have been witness to the greatest extinction of all times. Yet few open their eyes due to political obfuscation.
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Post by ugonow on Jun 21, 2011 10:44:53 GMT -5
Must be you. I took it to collaborate with his contention about conservatives and science.
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Post by bubblyandblue on Jun 21, 2011 10:47:40 GMT -5
The Belo Monte dam will be the world's third-largest hydroelectric dam (after China's Three Gorges dam, itself with numerous problems, and the Brazilian-Paraguayan Itaipu dam). It will flood 400,000 hectares of the world's largest rainforest, displacing 20,000 to 40,000 people – including the Kayapó. The ecological impact of the project is massive: the Xingu River basin has four times more biodiversity than all of Europe. Flooding of the rainforest will liberate massive amounts of methane, a greenhouse gas far more damaging than carbon dioxide. But the impact on Chief Raoni's people, on an entire society, is unimaginable.
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Post by bubblyandblue on Jun 21, 2011 10:49:10 GMT -5
Developing countries could abandon attempts to protect their forests if Western nations do not provide promised conservation funding, Guyana's president told a summit on tropical forests recently. "We say we're going to lock away large tracts of forest and preserve them, but these are forests that could be used for other purposes," President Bharrat Jagdeo told leaders and delegates from 35 countries straddling the Amazon and the Congo and Borneo-Mekong basins, the world's three largest stretches of forest.
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Post by pig on Jun 21, 2011 10:49:44 GMT -5
Species have gone extinct well before man ever entered the picture. It's natural and we should not be so presumptious as to assume we can or should attempt to control it.
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Post by bubblyandblue on Jun 21, 2011 10:52:06 GMT -5
Dr. Pig - WE HAVE BEEN PRESUMPTIOUS TO ASSUME WE HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH IT. sorry about the caps.
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Post by pig on Jun 21, 2011 11:09:06 GMT -5
The K-T boundary saw the extinction of 99% of all species. Guess what? Man wasn't around then.
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Post by bubblyandblue on Jun 21, 2011 11:14:12 GMT -5
Yea, man has not been around for long anyway - a blink of an eye - so explain todays extinction events - especialy in the last two hundred years or so?
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Post by Deleted on Jun 21, 2011 11:39:54 GMT -5
Yea, man has not been around for long anyway - a blink of an eye - so explain todays extinction events - especially in the last two hundred years or so? Much improved record keeping and cataloging together with mass media of various types to deliver the said information.
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Post by cme1201 on Jun 21, 2011 11:41:44 GMT -5
For some years now we humans have been witness to the greatest extinction of all times. Yet few open their eyes due to political obfuscation. the Dinosaurs died out a very, very long time ago, I believe that that would be the greatest extinction of all time. Besides self reliance and self dependancy, what eles have we as humans seen the extinction of?
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Post by pig on Jun 21, 2011 11:44:01 GMT -5
For some years now we humans have been witness to the greatest extinction of all times.
This statement is not only false it show a massive lack of knowledge of geology and archeology.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 21, 2011 11:46:36 GMT -5
Must be you. I took it to collaborate with his contention about conservatives and science. Going to the miss USA contest to make a scientific collaboration point ?
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Post by bubblyandblue on Jun 21, 2011 12:05:04 GMT -5
Well, given my lack of knowledge I would say that the rate of extinction is very high. That humans have had a direct negative impact on our environment. That Humans have accelerated the rate of CO2 emissions, That humans have decreased biodiversity, have polluted and and looted our natural resources. According to you Dr. Pig, we humans should act as ostriches and put our head in the sand.
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Post by floridayankee on Jun 21, 2011 12:10:09 GMT -5
Besides self reliance and self dependancy, what eles have we as humans seen the extinction of? After reading this thread....that'd be self reliance and common sense. RIP
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