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posted by cmn32480 on Wednesday June 24 2015, @02:17PM   Printer-friendly
from the he-hasn't-been-right-yet dept.

A professor famous for predicting the imminent demise of the human race at regular intervals since the 1970s has predicted the imminent demise of the human race.

Paul Ehrlich, who is the Bing Professor of Population Studies at the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment, says it's definitely on this time. In a tinned statement issued on Friday, the arm-waving prof lays it on the line:

There is no longer any doubt: We are entering a mass extinction that threatens humanity's existence ... the window of opportunity is rapidly closing ...

"[The study] shows without any significant doubt that we are now entering the sixth great mass extinction event," Ehrlich said ...

"If it is allowed to continue, life would take many millions of years to recover, and our species itself would likely disappear early on," said lead author Gerardo Ceballos.

The original article can be found at The Register, with coverage of the cited study coming from ScienceMag.org


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 24 2015, @06:33PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 24 2015, @06:33PM (#200517)

    There is a massive, MASSIVE, track record of successful predictions

    People often make these claims but then when you ask for specific examples you find out the "predictions" are stuff like "A is positively correlated with B". Yea well that's a 50-50 chance right there even if you have no idea what you are talking about. But I am interested in examples of successful science so if you know of any real predictions (ie precise ones) that came true I would love to read the papers.