Biodiversity Crisis Is Worse Than Climate Change, Experts Say

ScienceDaily ^ | Jan. 20, 2012 | ScienceDaily

[dila813]

Biodiversity is declining rapidly throughout the world. The challenges of conserving the world's species are perhaps even larger than mitigating the negative effects of global climate change. Dealing with the biodiversity crisis requires political will and needs to be based on a solid scientific knowledge if we are to ensure a safe future for the planet. This is the main conclusion from scientists from University of Copenhagen, after 100 researchers and policy experts from EU countries were gathered this week at the University of Copenhagen to discuss how to organise the future UN Intergovernmental Panel for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services, IPBES -- an equivalent to the UN panel on climate change (IPCC).

[RetiredTexasVet]

Another fake crisis requiring trillions of dollars for academic research (academic welfare), legions of new bureaucrats (government welfare), subsidized solutions companies (crony capitalism welfare) and millions of new regulations and laws.

[RetiredTexasVet]

I can just only imagine the biodiversity of the vermin at the OWS sites. Something we need to save?

[Know et al]

There is a condition facing the world that is more dangerous than Biodiversity or world climate. The sky is falling!

Scientists need a grant to study the anomaly./s

[There You Go Again]

Yea, I thought about this while working in my high-rise office building the other day....how can I keep doing what I am doing without biodiversity?

[SunkenCiv]

This is all part of the same Big Lie. Global warming (under its many names) has been warned of because it will lead to “the extinction of whole taxa” and a “great dying” not seen since a ten mile wide hunk of space crud blasted a huge crater and pushed all the dinos into a mass grave (figuratively, mostly). It won’t, it’s not happening, and the oceans warming at depth (another recently revived part of the Big Lie) isn’t happening either.

Thanks dila813.

[Know et al]

Yeah, TYGA. You would think they would see they are whipping a dead horse. What’s the old adage?

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.

[billybudd]

[JoeFromSidney]

Think of it as evolution in action. The unfit are disappearing.

[Know et al]

The unfit are disappearing

I don't know about that. There are still a lot of democrats aroung. LOL

[Know et al]

around—— sorry, I thought I did a spell check.

[BeAllYouCanBe]

Only a socialist solution can save us. We need to live in communes.

[marsh2]

I guess global warming ...er climate change was not leveraging enough control over our individual freedoms. They needed a new crisis to use as an excuse for land set asides, the erosion of private property rights and pushing people into dense settlements to protect the earth.

“Ecosystem Services” is part of the new economic system that accompanies “sustainable development” http://users.sisqtel.net/armstrng/ecosystem_services.htm

[ChildOfThe60s]

The new panel is the biodiversity equivalent to the UN panel on climate change

OK, I think that tells us everything we need to know. Real (political) science at work here. Har, har, har

[stylin19a]

IPBES -- an equivalent to the UN panel on climate change (IPCC).

of which the "experts" at IPCC will slowly become "experts" at IPBES

[Joe the Pimpernel]

Diversity of marine animals, and extinction events over geologic time.

[jimfree]

How is biodiversity measured? What is the correct amount of it?

[TEXOKIE]

bfl

[Chode]

nature is cruel, but fair...

[Gene Eric]

>> “and needs to be based on a solid scientific knowledge”

Who said scientists are incapable of applying deduction?

[Noob1999]

GLOBAL WARMING —————(morph to)————CLIMATE CHANGE -————(morph to)————BIO-DIVERSITY!

Go to where the $$$$ grants are!

(Once you build your cabin in the woods, you can become an environmentalist. Then, the next person who wants to build a cabin in your woods becomes an evil developer!)