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posted by martyb on Sunday April 30 2017, @03:07PM   Printer-friendly
from the we-can-find-no-longer-find-data-against-our-plans dept.

You were warned. Now it begins: The Chicago Tribune reports that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is working on changes to its Web properties:

The EPA's extensive climate change website now redirects to a page that says "this page is being updated" and that "we are currently updating our website to reflect EPA's priorities under the leadership of President Trump and Administrator Pruitt." It also links to a full archive of how the page used to look on Jan. 19, before Trump's inauguration.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 01 2017, @02:57AM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 01 2017, @02:57AM (#502107)

    Ah, but it is, haven't you noticed that humans are the "big animals" mentioned above and we are causing the extinction of many, many species? One link, there are countless others (Google claims 55,700,000 results) --

    http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/programs/biodiversity/elements_of_biodiversity/extinction_crisis/ [biologicaldiversity.org]

    Our planet is now in the midst of its sixth mass extinction of plants and animals — the sixth wave of extinctions in the past half-billion years. We’re currently experiencing the worst spate of species die-offs since the loss of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago. Although extinction is a natural phenomenon, it occurs at a natural “background” rate of about one to five species per year. Scientists estimate we’re now losing species at 1,000 to 10,000 times the background rate, with literally dozens going extinct every day [1]. It could be a scary future indeed, with as many as 30 to 50 percent of all species possibly heading toward extinction by mid-century [2].

    Unlike past mass extinctions, caused by events like asteroid strikes, volcanic eruptions, and natural climate shifts, the current crisis is almost entirely caused by us — humans. In fact, 99 percent of currently threatened species are at risk from human activities, primarily those driving habitat loss, introduction of exotic species, and global warming [3]. Because the rate of change in our biosphere is increasing, and because every species’ extinction potentially leads to the extinction of others bound to that species in a complex ecological web, numbers of extinctions are likely to snowball in the coming decades as ecosystems unravel.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 01 2017, @03:23AM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 01 2017, @03:23AM (#502114)

    I mean that for some reason large animals were selected for in the past, and still are in high pressure environments, but not in general any longer. This explanation of bigger animals hunting smaller doesnt explain anything.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 01 2017, @06:54AM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 01 2017, @06:54AM (#502159)

      That other AC knew exactly what you were saying.
      He also knows the theory is bullshit, so he decided to use alt-definitions to try to change the premise of the theory.
      As if it isn't an obvious admission of the stupidity of the theory.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 01 2017, @03:01PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 01 2017, @03:01PM (#502285)

        How exactly is it bullshit? No evidence is mentioned, only an "alternative" that doesn't explain anything since he doesn't point out what changed about the situation.