Sentences with phrase «from global extinction»

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mama - Today public schools teach evolution as a means to species as fact, even though science knows from the Global geological record and Dr. Gould's work that species occur rapidly followin a mass extinction; in violation of the same seperation claus.

Species occur rapidly following a mass extinction, the opposite of evolution; as we know from the global geological record and Dr. Gould's work in biology.

Journalist Kolbert takes readers from the dying Great Barrier Reef to the Andes, documenting global warming's toll on species diversity, and considers lessons to be learned from prehistoric megafauna extinctions.

Heather Birch, a Cardiff University PhD from the School of Earth and Ocean Sciences who led the study, said: «The global catastrophe that caused the extinction of the dinosaurs also devastated ocean ecosystems.

If most of us expect to live possibly indefinitely in good health, there is a strong motivation to help protect humanity from long - term risks like extinction from a new pandemic, the exhaustion of key nonrenewable resources, global nuclear warfare — or a meteor strike.

But researchers from the University of Geneva (UNIGE), Switzerland, working alongside the University of Zurich, discovered that this extinction took place during a short ice age which preceded the global climate warming.

Or is minimizing alterations to the global environment introduced by human activity — rising levels of CO2 from fossil - fuel burning, widespread extinction, dams that impound water — more important to our success?

According to Abbott, the debris from a comet would filter the sun's rays, causing global cooling, crop failure, extinctions, and famine.

That's the stark message from the first global survey of amphibians, which has found they are under far greater threat of extinction than birds or mammals.

«This is the strongest evidence from fossils that the main driver of this extinction event was the after - effects of a huge asteroid impact, rather than a slower decline caused by natural changes to the climate or by severe volcanism stressing global environments.»

Acid rain following the impact may also have played a role in the extinction, as could the additional stress on global climate from the massive volcanic eruptions that occurred 65 million years ago in India's Deccan Traps.

Bringing species back from the brink of extinction is the mission of San Diego Zoo Global.

Understanding how communities and ecosystems recovered from the previous five global extinction events sheds light on how extinctions shape broad patterns of biodiversity.

And global warming is so rapid — as fast as any warming in the past 65 million years — that species already under pressure from habitat loss and overexploitation are at greater risk of extinction.

Extinction rates on such islands ranged from 15 % to 30 %, but when cats, foxes, or dingoes were present, the rates plummeted to just over 10 % — not much higher than on islands without any introduced predators, the scientists reported at the meeting and online this month in the journal Global Ecology and Biogeography.

Based on regional studies, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) estimated that 20 — 30 % of the world's species are likely to be at increasingly high risk of extinction from climate change impacts within this century if global mean temperatures exceed 2 — 3 °C above pre-industrial levels [6], while Thomas et al. [5] predicted that 15 — 37 % of species could be «committed to extinction» due to climate change by 2050.

For the first time in history the warring factions of The Global Defense Initiative and The Brotherhood of Nod must put aside their differences and unite in saving mankind from extinction.

Increased global temp may result in: Increased frequency / violence of severe weather Drought / Desertification / loss of biomass Loss of fresh water Increased disease from vector - borne diseases Species extinction on a large scale.

Please correct my faulty understanding, but I have read (secondary sources) that 251 million years ago it is thought there was 6 degrees global warming (from natural causes), and that this triggered massive CO2 and CH4 releases, leading to runaway global warming, and massive extinction.

Global warming brought on by increased atmospheric CO2 from volcanism is thought to be the cause of this extinction.

The figures marked the opening of the International Tiger Conservation Conference, a three day meeting following on the heels of the groundbreaking Global Tiger Recovery Programme (GTRP), a worldwide plan to bring the species back from the brink of extinction which was forged in November 2010 at an international tiger conservation meeting in St. Petersburg, Russia organized by Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.

'' In thinking about global extinction we've got to free ourselves from this human time scale,» said Dr. John Alroy, an ecologist at the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis of the University of California at Santa Barbara.»

The Chancellor of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences has blamed «biological extinction» on global warming, which results from «rich countries» use of fossil fuels.»

«Apart from the stupid space rock hitting the Earth, most mass extinctions were CO2 - driven global warming things,» says Ridgwell.

Global war has to come before Catastrophic Climate Change, as it will distract people from prosecuting those who have brought us to the edge of extinction with their geoengineering, particularly atmospheric spraying.

Air pressure changes, allergies increase, Alps melting, anxiety, aggressive polar bears, algal blooms, Asthma, avalanches, billions of deaths, blackbirds stop singing, blizzards, blue mussels return, boredom, budget increases, building season extension, bushfires, business opportunities, business risks, butterflies move north, cannibalistic polar bears, cardiac arrest, Cholera, civil unrest, cloud increase, cloud stripping, methane emissions from plants, cold spells (Australia), computer models, conferences, coral bleaching, coral reefs grow, coral reefs shrink, cold spells, crumbling roads, buildings and sewage systems, damages equivalent to $ 200 billion, Dengue hemorrhagic fever, dermatitis, desert advance, desert life threatened, desert retreat, destruction of the environment, diarrhoea, disappearance of coastal cities, disaster for wine industry (US), Dolomites collapse, drought, drowning people, drowning polar bears, ducks and geese decline, dust bowl in the corn belt, early spring, earlier pollen season, earthquakes, Earth light dimming, Earth slowing down, Earth spinning out of control, Earth wobbling, El Nià ± o intensification, erosion, emerging infections, encephalitis,, Everest shrinking, evolution accelerating, expansion of university climate groups, extinctions (ladybirds, pandas, pikas, polar bears, gorillas, whales, frogs, toads, turtles, orang - utan, elephants, tigers, plants, salmon, trout, wild flowers, woodlice, penguins, a million species, half of all animal and plant species), experts muzzled, extreme changes to California, famine, farmers go under, figurehead sacked, fish catches drop, fish catches rise, fish stocks decline, five million illnesses, floods, Florida economic decline, food poisoning, footpath erosion, forest decline, forest expansion, frosts, fungi invasion, Garden of Eden wilts, glacial retreat, glacial growth, global cooling, glowing clouds, Gore omnipresence, Great Lakes drop, greening of the North, Gulf Stream failure, Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome, harvest increase, harvest shrinkage, hay fever epidemic, heat waves, hibernation ends too soon, hibernation ends too late, human fertility reduced, human health improvement, hurricanes, hydropower problems, hyperthermia deaths, ice sheet growth, ice sheet shrinkage, inclement weather, Inuit displacement, insurance premium rises, invasion of midges, islands sinking, itchier poison ivy, jellyfish explosion, Kew Gardens taxed, krill decline, landslides, landslides of ice at 140 mph, lawsuits increase, lawyers» income increased (surprise surprise!)

Marine life is under severe threat from global warming, pollution and habitat loss, with a high risk of «major extinctions» according to a panel of experts.

What is more, past global warming has included both minor and mass extinction events (e.g. PETM, Permian - Triassic extinction) so even if current warming is in line with what's repeatedly been experienced in the past, it doesn't follow that either the process of warming or the end result are desireable from the perspective of maintaining an advanced, affluent, complex human society based on creating reliable surpluses of food for 7.5 + billion people.

Making groundless claims about 50 % extinction from global warming is shameless and frankly embarrasing, but scary enough that you are asking me about the uncertainty more than uncertainty in Hansen's ridiculous claim.

Climate Depot was first to report in January 2010 on the UN slowly moving away from man - made global warming promotion and switching gears to cover biodiversity and species extinction.

From the National Science Foundation: Global Extinction: Gradual Doom as Bad as Abrupt In «The Great Dying» 250 million years ago, the end came slowly The deadliest mass extinction of all took a long time to kill 90 percent of Earth's marine life — and it killed in stages — according to a newly publishExtinction: Gradual Doom as Bad as Abrupt In «The Great Dying» 250 million years ago, the end came slowly The deadliest mass extinction of all took a long time to kill 90 percent of Earth's marine life — and it killed in stages — according to a newly publishextinction of all took a long time to kill 90 percent of Earth's marine life — and it killed in stages — according to a newly published report.

Pounds, J.A., et al., (2006) Widespread amphibian extinctions from epidemic disease driven by global warming.

The last hothouse extinction, the PETM, also saw similar «slow» rates of release from the global carbon system.

So Nature published Pounds» more adamant connection to CO2 in «Widespread amphibian extinctions from epidemic disease driven by global warming».17 Embodying the forceful storyteller Pounds boldly stated, «we conclude with «very high confidence» (> 99 %, following the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, IPCC) that large - scale warming is a key factor in the disappearances.

When the earth's temperature rises on average by more than two degrees, interactions between different consequences of global warming (reduction in the area of arable land, unexpected crop failures, extinction of diverse plant and animal species) combined with increasing populations mean that hundreds of millions of people may die from starvation or disease in future famines.

(As one environmentalist says to another, explaining the need for faked lightning and tidal waves, «Species extinction from global warming — nobody gives a shit.»)

In its latest assessment of the progress of climate change, the body said: «If warming is not kept below two degrees centigrade, which will require the strongest mitigation efforts, and currently looks very unlikely to be achieved, the substantial global impacts will occur, such as species extinctions, and millions of people at risk from drought, hunger, flooding.»

During the Permian / Triassic mass extinction, 95 percent of species on the earth perished, apparently from runaway global warming.

World Wildlife Day is a chance to appreciate the breathtaking variety of life on our planet; however, the headlines are often necessarily consumed by the global fight to save some of the most magnificent species from extinction...

In this context, synergies (positive or self - reinforcing feedbacks) from global warming, ocean acidification, habitat loss, habitat fragmentation, invasive species, chemical pollution (Figure 2) are likely lead to cascading extinctions.

Tegen, I., P. Hollrig, M. Chin, I. Fung, D. Jacob, and J. Penner, 1997: Contribution of different aerosol species to the global aerosol extinction optical thickness: Estimates from model results.

Thus, environmental alarmists have made much of research claiming the Arctic's great white bear faces extinction from human - caused global warming.

«Based on all above findings and our compilation (Figure 4.4, Table 4.1 ″) we estimate that on average 20 % to 30 % of species assessed are likely to be at increasingly high risk of extinction from climate change impacts possibly within this century as global mean temperatures exceed 2 °C to 3 °C relative to pre-industrial levels (this chapter).

Climate scientists have painted a pretty grim outlook for our planet in the wake of an unabated release of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere — from rising sea levels and increasing weather disasters, to resource shortages and mass extinctions — but there's one side effect of global warming sure to make you go «aww».

Global Warming / Climate Change / Climate Disruption / Carbon Pollution could easily be mistaken as a Hoax, given the constant name changing and how it is portrait as causing everything from shrinking penises to the potential extinction of coffee trees

The latest PNAS paper on the problems of 4000 mammals by Kevin Crooks et al, from Colorado State University, US, the University of Queensland, Australia, Sapienza Università di Roma in Italy and Conservation Science Partners indicates that anthropogenic influences on habitat exacerbate the risks of extinction on a global basis.

«With the global trade in shark fins pushing sharks toward extinction, it will take strong actions such as this to prevent us from making irreversible changes to our ocean ecosystems,» said Whit Sheard, senior advisor for Oceana, a maritime conservation organization.