Earth's sixth mass extinction event ... is already under way

Biologists have used conservative new estimates to prove that vertebrate species on Earth are disappearing faster than at any time since the extinction of the dinosaurs, and humans are now at risk of being wiped out.

"[The study] shows without any significant doubt that we are now entering the sixth great mass extinction event," one of the researchers, Paul Ehrlich from Stanford University in the US, said in a press release. Even worse, the research shows that we triggered the event ourselves.

Although many biologists have long believed that Earth is in the middle of a major extinction event, skeptics have argued that estimates were overstating how fast species were being wiped out as a result of inconsistent data.

Scientists work out whether we're in a major extinction event by comparing the current extinction rate to the background extinction rate - the rate at which you'd expect species to normally disappear.

By looking only at well-verified data and fossil records of vertebrates - our best-studied group of organisms - the new research came up with a background extinction rate that's twice as high as previous estimates.

But even using this background rate and the most conservative species loss estimates, the researchers found that animals are still being wiped out around 15 to 100 times faster than they should be - in fact, the rate of species loss hasn't been this high since the dinosaurs disappeared 65 million years ago.

heavenlyfatheragain wrote:is it natural or is it part of an agenda..

http://www.thegeorgiaguidestones.com/

Ben_Reilly wrote:

heavenlyfatheragain wrote:is it natural or is it part of an agenda..

http://www.thegeorgiaguidestones.com/

Whose agenda?

New rule -- you have to back your shit up with real evidence if you don't want to be ridiculed.

Actually I think that's an unspoken rule we've been enforcing all along ...

So yeah, you're full of shit, dude. Talk about the species going extinct.

Ben_Reilly wrote:Sorry, just wanted to add something. I guess what I'm really asking for, HF, is an argument that stands a chance of convincing not just people who you agree with, but infidel heathens like myself as well. I think that's the real point of having this site -- you try to convince me, I try to convince you.

Whoever has the best argument, as far as something that could convince any average bystander, wins the debate.

Vicar of Dibley wrote:

Ben_Reilly wrote:Sorry, just wanted to add something. I guess what I'm really asking for, HF, is an argument that stands a chance of convincing not just people who you agree with, but infidel heathens like myself as well. I think that's the real point of having this site -- you try to convince me, I try to convince you.

Whoever has the best argument, as far as something that could convince any average bystander, wins the debate.

The Georgia Guidestones are there for all to see , and all about massive depopulation . I don't think it's there as a joke somehow , if it is then i don't think it is at all funny .

The VC site is as good as anyone else's links and just because you don't believe it many do find it interesting .

For instance why was a new airport built in Denver when they had a perfectly good airport ?

http://vigilantcitizen.com/sinistersites/sinister-sites-the-denver-international-airport/

Ben_Reilly wrote:HF, do you discount the entire process of deciding which evidence to accept and which to reject? Are you trying to say that all evidence is the same?

heavenlyfatheragain wrote:

Ben_Reilly wrote:Whose agenda?

New rule -- you have to back your shit up with real evidence if you don't want to be ridiculed.

Actually I think that's an unspoken rule we've been enforcing all along ...

So yeah, you're full of shit, dude. Talk about the species going extinct.

haven't we yet decided that evidence is a point of view, some we accept some we do not and it is based on our bias.. maybe not..

do the guide stones exist ...yes

do they talk of a human culling...yes...

is the information available on many other sites...yes...

heavenlyfatheragain wrote:

Ben_Reilly wrote:HF, do you discount the entire process of deciding which evidence to accept and which to reject? Are you trying to say that all evidence is the same?

more or less yes, it is how we decide to quantify it that makes it viable as evidence to us...