[Newsbot]

Title: Lawrence Solomon: Top environmental group downplays global warming threat
Category: Environmental
Posted By: Zipperfish
Date: 2009-11-09 16:21:44

[Zipperfish]

Quote:

One of the world's top environmental organizations, the UN-affiliated International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN), has publicly stated that global warming is being overhyped. The Geneva-based organization made the surprising comments with regard to the often-heard claim that global warming is the chief threat to the extinction of species.

In fact, climate change is "far from the number-one threat" to the survival of most species, said Jean Christophe Vie, deputy head of the IUCN species program. Vie considers hunting, overfishing, and human destruction of habitat as more important, and more urgent, threats that should not take a back seat to climate change. "There are so many other immediate threats that, by the time climate change really kicks in, many species will not exist anymore." The IUCN compiles the authoritative international Redlist of endangered species.

IUCN's comments, reported Friday in Times Online, were made in defence of a paper in Science by two University of Oxford researchers that found climate change models yield invalid results because they don�t reflect the real world. "The evidence of climate change-driven extinctions have really been overplayed," concluded Professor Kathy Willis, the paper's lead author who is also director of the Oxford Long-Term Ecology Laboratory.

Nice to see reality start to reassert itself. Overfishing is a far more clear and present danger than climate change.

[BartSimpson]

I so agree.

[Sunny2009]

Me too. Always had trouble swallowing the whole scene.

[gigs]

Interesting.












oh wait this is the National Post...they're conservative....they made it all up


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[N_Fiddledog]

This has been happening for a while now. As the AGW is BS truth gets stronger, the rats are slowly jumping the ship. Even Al Gore said recently something like, "wait, I didn't mean CO2 is the whole problem. I meant something more like 40% of the problem". One of the producers of An Inconvenient Truth is now saying "wait, did I say climate change, no I meant the plastic in the ocean is the problem". Even the alarmist scientists are starting to say stuff like "No, not continuous warming. 30 years of no warming to cooling, then warming. That's what I meant all along".

There's been steadily mounting back-tracking since Allegre jumped ship a couple of years ago. It's been getting more and more evident in the last 6 months, or so.

There looking for new disasters though. They haven't made up there collective mind yet, what the new flavor of apocalypse will be. Gore was trying to sell soot and methane last week.

[sandorski]

It seems many have misunderstood what the guy was saying. He was merely talking from the point of view of the Issue he has the most vested interest in. That being Species Extinction. He also admits that GW/CC is a factor, he's just pointing out that there are other factors that are more urgent to be dealt with regarding Species Extinction.

[gigs]

sandorski wrote:

It seems many have misunderstood what the guy was saying. He was merely talking from the point of view of the Issue he has the most vested interest in. That being Species Extinction. He also admits that GW/CC is a factor, he's just pointing out that there are other factors that are more urgent to be dealt with regarding Species Extinction.

Give it a while they've just begun walking backwards.

[sandorski]

gigs wrote:

sandorski wrote:

It seems many have misunderstood what the guy was saying. He was merely talking from the point of view of the Issue he has the most vested interest in. That being Species Extinction. He also admits that GW/CC is a factor, he's just pointing out that there are other factors that are more urgent to be dealt with regarding Species Extinction.

Give it a while they've just begun walking backwards.

wut?