Do you honestly believe that the following has no effect on the worlds biodiversity; habitat loss, invasive species, pollution and human population growth. Studies time and time again show that these factors have major effects on biodiversity.

I’m at a loss to see how you can make such a leap of logic. I questioned the factual content of an report commissioned by the WWF and reported New Scientist. Do you really believe ground-living vertebrates have declined by 25%
with most of the slump occurring since 1980? Do you even know what a vertebrate is?

I’m well aware of the pressure that Mankind is placing on the environment and am concerned. I’m a conservationist and believe we must give large tracts of terrain to wild unrestrained evolutionary progression. We must also take into account the needs of humanity. So I’m sick to death of this manic fixation the loathsome politicised enviro Marxists have with CO2.

They are draining funds needed for conservation and trying to drag wealthy countries into poverty. We can only tackle these problems from a position of strength. Try and be altruistic when you’re hungry, cold and your children are sick. Your friends are working toward forcing people into desperation and when people are desperate the won’t give a flying fig about your mother Earth.

MartinGAtkins (02:35:51) :

Do you honestly believe that the following has no effect on the worlds biodiversity; habitat loss, invasive species, pollution and human population growth. Studies time and time again show that these factors have major effects on biodiversity.

I suggest before commentating on this subject you take some time to actually read up on it first. A good starting place would be to google Hawaii and native wildlife.
Like it or not we are all connected with other living organisms and the loss of one species can have an immediate effect on many others.
Maybe you should think beyond your own back yard and think about what kind of world we are leaving behind for future generations, or maybe you just don’t care.

New Scientist
Global picture

Ground-living vertebrates have declined by 25%.

The results were released as part of a WWF report,

Pure propaganda in a glossy magazine by the favored mouth piece of the enviro disciples.

BTW anyone know of any animal that has died out in the last 25 years?

Honestus Taxfundis Scientifica.

Is there a single virus, pestilence, infection, toxic mold, poison plant, invasive species, or mental disorder that may not have been increased by AGW?

An easy way to spot pure unadulterated bilge water is to spot the word “may” as in the article at the top, “these corals …may… be among the first marine organisms to be affected by ocean acidification”

Or they may not.

Jim Arndt (10:19:44) :

Unfortunately it is a long process before confirming that an animal is extinct. If a particular organism is very distinctive in form/colour and habit then it becomes easier to confirm if an organism is extinct or not. The Costa Rican Holdridge Toad Bufo holdridgeiis an example of this. It had a bright orange and black colouration and predictable behaviour. This was a locally common species that was declared endangered in 2006 and declared extinct last year. the Costa Rican Orange Toad Incilius periglenesis also extinct, again this used to be a locally common species. In Hawaii many species of thethe land snails of the genus Achatinella are either extinct, endangered or the last few members of the species are kept in captive housing.
Add to the list the Zanzibar Leopard Panthera pardus adersi
in 1996
The Pyrenean Ibex Capra pyrenaica pyrenaica in 2000
The Black-faced Honeycreeper Melamprosops phaeosoma in 2004.
The Madeiran Large White Butterfly Pieris brassicae wollastoni in 2007
There are many more recorded, and a lot more than this unrecorded. Each of the extinct organisms will have other organisms that can only live with that particular species, such as lice, bacteria etc, these will also be extinct and may never have been recorded.
Many organisms have suffered huge population crashes, they may not have the population to continue. In the last 35 years there has been a decline of 37% in biodiversity http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn13915-global-biodiversity-slumps-27-in-35-years.html
An excellent book on the subject of extinctions is Edward O Wilson’s work ‘The Future of Life’. This man has been my inspiration and I would recommend any of his works for an excellent overview of life on this planet (especially ants!)

“NOAA understands and predicts changes in the Earth’s environment, …..” This is untrue, as they are striving for comprehension on the incredible diversity and lack of understanding “from the depths of the ocean to the surface of the sun…”.

Finally, the sheer time scale described on living 4,000 year old coral, the manner in which deep ocean “mixes” and the rate in which it happens. 30 years isn’t even a factor with regards to this coral.

The dusky seaside sparrow went extinct here in Florida around 1990…that one I know off the top of my head…a few others I would have to google.
from the swamp…cdl

Six of these species may represent entirely new genera, a remarkable feat given the broad classification a genus represents.

Ooh, oooh! They found at least one whole new genus! What subliterate wrote this press-release? They should have learned what genera are in grade school, and why it’s so utterly inconsequential to find a few on a major zoological expedition in under-explored territories!