Recently, Costello et al. have put forward the reassuring news that we can name (i.e. discover) most species on earth before they go extinct. Others however disagree, saying that Costello et al. fail to take into account synergistic effects that will lead to collapse of species populations, rather than to a gradual decline.
Scientists have published the reassuring news that we can now cryo-preserve tissues of species that are about to go extinct (currently about 40,000 per year). Although extinct in the wild, these species could be stored for the future. Others wonder of what value this would be, since the habitat and ecosystems of these species will not exist anymore in the future.
Global warming is only one dimension of climate change, and climate change is only one facet of the accelerating destruction of our planet, cause by us. And the destruction is visible, measurable, real.
Post-climategate science appears to have resigned itself to simply observe and document how we destroy our planet, and hence, inexorably, us.
Is it only me who thinks that this is all desperately sad?
Graham Joyce- Au cœur du silence
8 years ago
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