There are so many unanswered questions to 9/11, but things that were not ask often are.
When searching on the internet for species extinction, you find a lot of articles linking climate change, global warming and human activities to this issue. I will not go into the "Extinction events" that happens regularly over the ages, this is another subject altogether.
Like anything, opinions diverge a lot of the subject. One thing I urge people to do before jumping to conclusion if to read on the other side of what the "mass media" is pushing down our easily influenced minds.
So here's a couple of nice articles and documents that give a refreshing look into this species extinction debate.
First let look at a PDF from Dona Laframboise. Here's an excerpt:
Extinction Fiction
The claim by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that 20-30% of all Earth's species are at risk of extinction relies on a research paper that has been demolished by experts in the field. It is highly debatable whether the authors of this chapter of the 2007 IPCC report comprise the 'worlds top experts'. What is not in dispute is that five out of 10 of the lead authors have documented links to the activist World Wildlife Fund. So do three of the chapter's contributing authors.Then there is this excellent essay by Stephen Budiansky. Here's an excerpt:
The teflon doomsayers
The astonishingly wrong and repercussion-free prediction of imminent doom that first riveted my attention was the claim of the impending mass extinction of the Earth's species. In 1979, the biologist Norman Myers declared that a fifth of all species on the planet would be gone within two decades. This prediction was based upon . . . absolutely no evidence whatsoever. Myers acknowledged that the documented species extinction rate of animals was 1 per year; he then asserted that scientists had "hazarded a guess" that the actual rate was 100 per year; he then speculated that government inaction was "likely to lead" to several thousand or even tens of thousands a year, which would add up to as much as a million species over two decades. (This was when people thought there were 5 million species; the best guess now is at least 10 million.) It swiftly became conventional wisdom.
Abstract
The record of continental (as opposed to island) bird and mammal extinctions in the last five centuries was analyzed to determine if the “species-area” relationship actually works to predict extinctions. Very few continental birds or mammals are recorded as having gone extinct, and none have gone extinct from habitat reduction alone. No continental forest bird or mammal is recorded as having gone extinct from any cause. Since the species-area relationship predicts that there should have been a very large number of recorded bird and mammal extinctions from habitat reduction over the last half millennium, I show that the species-area relationship gives erroneous answers to the question of extinction rates.
ABSTRACT
The ‘decline and fall’ of Easter Island and its alleged self-destruction has become the poster child of a new environmentalist historiography, a school of thought that goes hand-in-hand with predictions of environmental disaster. Why did this exceptional civilisation crumble? What drove its population to extinction? These are some of the key questions Jared Diamond endeavours to answer in his new book Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive. According to Diamond, the people of Easter Island destroyed their forest, degraded the island’s topsoil, wiped out their plants and drove their animals to extinction. As a result of this selfinflicted environmental devastation, its complex society collapsed, descending into civil war, cannibalism and self-destruction. While his theory of ecocide has become almost paradigmatic in environmental circles, a dark and gory secret hangs over the premise of Easter Island’s self-destruction: an actual genocide terminated Rapa Nui’s indigenous populace and its culture. Diamond, however, ignores and fails to address the true reasons behind Rapa Nui’s collapse. Why has he turned the victims of cultural and physical extermination into the perpetrators of their own demise? This paper is a first attempt to address this disquieting quandary. It describes the foundation of Diamond’s environmental revisionism and explains why it does not hold up to scientific scrutiny.
Scientists agree world faces mass extinctionBecomes not so clear cut. Always good to be a little skeptical about what we hear and read.
Gentilly-2 : Des incidents passés sous silence | Mauricie | Radio-Canada.ca
Étant donné que les médias aiment les effets-chocs, je suis surpris de voir parler d'incidents que l'on verrait dans tout type d'industrie. Aucune mention de radio activité à la centrale dans les incidents citée.
Je serais curieux de voir ce type d'incidents dans les autres industries.. Font-elles les nouvelles?
Est-ce que les médias ont demandé la fin des mines et centrales au charbon, après les 25 morts dans une mine au États-Unis?
Est-ce que les nouvelles transmises par les médias de masse font preuve de transparence ou bien font preuve d'un choix très précis dicté par certains intérêts?
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Pour ceux qui ne connaissent pas TED, voici un résumé que j'ai pris sur leur site web:
Our mission: Spreading ideas.Voici quelques conférences que j'ai appréciées.
We believe passionately in the power of ideas to change attitudes, lives and ultimately, the world. So we're building here a clearinghouse that offers free knowledge and inspiration from the world's most inspired thinkers, and also a community of curious souls to engage with ideas and each other.
Susan Blackmore studies memes: ideas that replicate themselves from brain to brain like a virus. She makes a bold new argument: Humanity has spawned a new kind of meme, the teme, which spreads itself via technology -- and invents ways to keep itself aliveBjorn Lomborg: Our priorities for saving the world
Given $50 billion to spend, which would you solve first, AIDS or global warming? Danish political scientist Bjorn Lomborg comes up with surprising answers.Peter Donnelly: How juries are fooled by statistics
Oxford mathematician Peter Donnelly reveals the common mistakes humans make in interpreting statistics -- and the devastating impact these errors can have on the outcome of criminal trialsGeorge Dyson: Let's take a nuclear-powered rocket to Saturn
Author George Dyson spins the story of Project Orion, a massive, nuclear-powered spacecraft that could have taken us to Saturn in five years. His insider’s perspective and a secret cache of documents bring an Atomic Age dream to lifeJonathan Drori: Why we don’t understand as much as we think we do
Starting with four basic questions (that you may be surprised to find you can't answer), Jonathan Drori looks at the gaps in our knowledge -- and specifically, what we don't about science that we might think we do.
Here a quick list of links to article showing what is becoming an awakening of some media to the true outcome of the IPCC and some climate change - global warming - end of the world advocates.
Questions over business deals of UN climate change guru Dr Rajendra Pachauri
What has also almost entirely escaped attention, however, is how Dr Pachauri has established an astonishing worldwide portfolio of business interests with bodies which have been investing billions of dollars in organisations dependent on the IPCC’s policy recommendations.
These outfits include banks, oil and energy companies and investment funds heavily involved in ‘carbon trading’ and ‘sustainable technologies’, which together make up the fastest-growing commodity market in the world, estimated soon to be worth trillions of dollars a year.
Or, at least, that is the assumption on which the climate scientists' warming projections are based. It is projected economic growth that determines projected carbon emissions, and projected carbon emissions that (according to the somewhat conjectural computer models on which they rely) determine projected warming (according to the same models).
There is no doubt that calling a halt to the high-profile climate-change traveling circus risks causing a severe conference-deprivation trauma among the participants. If there has to be a small public investment in counseling, it would be money well spent.
Journalism and the climate change debate aside, it’s awfully sad to see people casually abusing statistics with one hand while grim-facedly flying the flag for science with the other. Even if we survive the climate change crisis, it doesn’t augur well for us ever coming to a consensus on how to address the next one.
A few years ago, I accepted global warming theory with few doubts. I wrote several columns for this paper condemning what I thought were unfair attacks by skeptics and defending the climate scientists.
Boy, was I naive.
Ce matin à RDI, nous avons entendu que les courriels du ClimateGate dataient de 10 ans.
Est-ce vrai?
Une simple recherche sur les fichiers que j’ai téléchargés sur mon serveur linux prouve le contraire.
Un simple grep nous montre la vérité.
Voici le format de Date des courriels (quelques uns en 2009) :
1257874826.txt:Date: Tue Nov 10 12:40:26 2009Voici un compte du nombre de courriels pour les dates 2009 à 2006.
1257881012.txt:Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2009 14:23:32 -0500
1257888920.txt:Date: Tue Nov 10 16:35:20 2009
1257888920.txt: Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:35:37 +0000
1258039134.txt:Date: Thu Nov 12 10:18:54 2009
1258053464.txt:Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2009 14:17:44 -0000
grep Date: *.txt | grep 2009 | wc -l
163
grep Date: *.txt | grep 2008 | wc -l
151
grep Date: *.txt | grep 2007 | wc -l
103
grep Date: *.txt | grep 2006 | wc –l
206
rdimatin @SimonFili Les courriels cités par tous les médias qui parlent "d'astuces" et qui ont donné place à la controverse datent de novembre 1999.Intéressant de voir ces réponses. Ils affirment en onde que ces courriels datent de 10 ans, ceci donne l'impression que ces informations sont veilles donc sans grande importances.
rdimatin @SimonFili Est-ce un "mensonge" de votre part de ne parler que des courriels récents dans votre post?
Plus d'information ici et ici
Bill Moyers addresses NCMR 2008
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