{"id":1221717,"date":"2022-01-18T10:37:13","date_gmt":"2022-01-18T15:37:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1221717"},"modified":"2022-01-18T10:37:17","modified_gmt":"2022-01-18T15:37:17","slug":"climate-alarmists-the-sixth-mass-extinction-really-has-begun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/climate-alarmists-the-sixth-mass-extinction-really-has-begun\/","title":{"rendered":"Climate Alarmists: The Sixth Mass Extinction \u2018Really Has Begun\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fclimate-alarmists-the-sixth-mass-extinction-really-has-begun%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1221717&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">Earth\u2019s sixth mass extinction has most certainly begun, asserts an article Tuesday in <em>Science Alert<\/em>, despite the objections of \u201cdeniers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It is the scientists themselves who \u201chave rung the alarm bell,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/new-evidence-confirms-the-sixth-mass-extinction-has-already-begun-scientists-warn\">writes<\/a> Peter Dockrill, \u201cwarning that grave declines in animal biodiversity around the globe herald the onset of what will be Earth\u2019s sixth mass extinction.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>A \u201clooming weight of evidence\u201d suggests this \u201cgrim phenomenon\u201d is unfolding all around us, Dockrill asserts.<\/p>\n<p>Extinction deniers base their position on a \u201chighly biased assessment of the crisis\u201d by overemphasizing mammals and birds while ignoring invertebrates, which constitute \u201cthe great majority of biodiversity,\u201d Dockrill declares, citing biologist Robert H. Cowie from the University of Hawaii at Manoa, most of whose <a href=\"https:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/profile\/Robert-Cowie\">work<\/a> involves non-marine snails.<\/p>\n<p>The fault for this widespread bias falls on \u201cvertebrate-centric media\u201d as well as many \u201cvertebrate-centric scientific and conservation organizations,\u201d states a recent <a href=\"https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/full\/10.1111\/brv.12816\">paper<\/a> by Cowie and two other colleagues.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Saving the planet one twerk at a time! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xdhoWlDZdW\">pic.twitter.com\/xdhoWlDZdW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartNews\/status\/1176223216215494664?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 23, 2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Indifference to the fate of animal species, especially invertebrates, reflects \u201can anthropocentric view that the Earth and its resources should be managed primarily, if not solely, for the benefit of humankind,\u201d asserts the paper, published in <em>Biological Reviews<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>According to the paper, the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species is itself skewed towards birds, mammals, and amphibians and pays too little attention to invertebrates.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_19531178\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/01\/GettyImages-1228296032.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-19531178\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/GettyImages-1228296032-1024x575-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"990\" height=\"556\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Activists from the climate protest group Extinction Rebellion march in Parliament Square in central London on September 1, 2020 as the climate ground started their new season of \u201cmass rebellions\u201d.(TOLGA AKMEN\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cThe Red List is heavily biased,\u201d declares the text because it, too, fails to properly assess the extinction rate of invertebrates.<\/p>\n<p>To rectify this prejudice, Cowie and companions focused on molluscs, which constitute \u201cthe second largest phylum in numbers of known species\u201d and include snails, slugs, mussels, and octopuses.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Less people to save the planet? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3KwltT198a\">https:\/\/t.co\/3KwltT198a<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartNews\/status\/1447880424475308034?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 12, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cIncluding invertebrates was key to confirming that we are indeed witnessing the onset of the sixth mass extinction in Earth\u2019s history,\u201d Cowie states.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCurrent extinction rates, notably in terrestrial invertebrates, are far higher than background extinction rates,\u201d the authors write.<\/p>\n<p>The authors do not propose what the <em>ideal number<\/em> of animal species should be but suggest that preserving those that currently exist is incumbent upon humanity.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tdwilliamsrome?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" data-show-count=\"false\">Follow @tdwilliamsrome<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earth\u2019s sixth mass extinction has most certainly begun, asserts an article Tuesday in Science Alert, despite the objections of \u201cdeniers.\u201d It is the scientists themselves who \u201chave rung the alarm &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1221717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1221717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1221717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1221717\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1221717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1221717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1221717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}