It was recently reported that journalism lost a lot of jobs this year, and again in July. After looking at this piece from the UK Telegraph, where the journalist couldn’t separate fantasy from reality, taking the word of a “scientist”, there’s no need to wonder why.
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The St Kilda islanders had prehensile toes for climbing cliffs in search of Gannett eggs. I’m sure some of them might have had webbed feet too
Oh yeah, on half the way to evolve to a dolphin 😀
Due to climate change – what else 😀
I hope I evolve into a dolphin
It must be a left-over article from April 1st.
HEre iin Germany we have to pay attention not to evolve to polarbears</aA
All grey / blue shadet dots indicate possible ground frost iin the coming mornig.
What a quack!
This quacks me up.
Jason Foster
It’s just quackers.
….sure we could.
But, then we wouldn’t call the creature a human. We’d call it a seal.
This guy must’ve really liked “Waterworld”.
(BTW it certainly won’t be happening in the mere 50 years we have left, but who am I to rain on their parade?)
Very amusing. I believe that occasionally a child is born with webbing
between toe or fingers, and Doctors remove it..
But as per Darwin’s “”Theory” if that child was born into a muddy or very wet place, then webbing could be a advantage, so such a variation would continue.
But just as with so many things in Nature, such a happening takes a very long tem, like hundreds of thousands of years.
MJE VK5ELL
“But as per Darwin’s “”Theory” if that child was born into a muddy or very wet place, then webbing could be a advantage, so such a variation would continue.”
Not likely, unless your life depended on it. Diseases and mutations that should have ended quickly are instead prolonged, due to medical science, the ability to live without fear of predation, etc. We’re not really evolving any more.
The inhabitants of the Fens are popularly believed to have webbed feet. It is a gross calumny to apply the claim to the whole of Norfolk though!
Also denizens of the Somerset levels. Caused by inbreeding , not wet feet.
What bunch of foolishness! From a “man of science” nonetheless. How many “millions of years” would that take (assuming you believe in that other foolishness: evolution). If, according to “scientists” we’ll all be dead from global warming, I don’t think we’ll be walking there, quacking as we go!
I sure hope “Doctor” Skinner is NOT a medical doctor. I feel sorry for his patients if that’s his doctorate.
“assuming you believe in that other foolishness: evolution”
Don’t need to believe, there’s actual evidence.
Which Laws of Evolution were applied to arrive at the idea of humans developing webbed feet?
Skinner?? Makes selkies come to mind, also Kurt Vonnegut’s Galapagos. The seas have been rising since the end of the last ice age with no effect. Fantasies.
It’s an obvious wind-up. The Telegraph is a sceptical paper. James Delingpole writes for it.
This article is from 2015, the science has advanced so much further since then. We will have fins and gills too.
Perhaps even grow wings ? Just imagine the fuel savings if everyone could take care of air travel by own means ?
Noise being a major drawback as most greens apparently already use vegetal substances that could get them supersonic even in the early climb.
Evolve webbed feet in just 12 years?
Wow!
CO2 can move evolution along real quick now.
How’s this:
“Alaska is trapped in a kind of hot feedback loop, as the arctic is heating up much faster than the rest of the planet. Ocean surface temperatures upwards of 10 Fahrenheit hotter than average have helped to warm up the state’s coasts. When Bering and Chukchi sea ice collapsed and melted months earlier than normal this spring, the University of Alaska climate specialist Rick Thoman characterized the water as “baking”.
“ ‘I intentionally try to not be hyperbolic, but what do you say when there’s 10- to 20-degree ocean water temperature above normal?” Thoman told the Guardian. “How else do you describe that besides extraordinary?’
“The hot water has affected sea birds and marine life, with mass mortality events becoming commonplace in the region. The National Park Service characterizes Alaska’s increasingly frequent sea bird die-offs, called ‘wrecks’, as ‘extreme’. ‘The folks in the communities are saying these animals look like they’ve starved to death,’ said Thoman.”
https://www.hcn.org/articles/climate-desk-record-heat-in-alaska-fuels-wildfires?utm_source=wcn1&utm_medium=email
Most readers will actually take this seriously. –AGF
Why aren’t people who already live in a wet environment developing webbed feet?
Olympic swimmers spend a large proportion of their time in the water yet they have normal, although often very large, feet.
Professional surfers, regular swimmers, those who shower/bathe regularly?
Idjits
Because living or dying doesn’t depend on them having webbed feet.
This is exactly what happened to Patrick Duffy :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Smj78NAme9M
Swimming advise :
– Avoid to swim like this more than 12 feet (+- 1000000) in a row otherwise you will very likely (97% odds) develop the webbed hands, gills and adipose eyelid syndrome by year 2030, and this will be the end of the World as you see it.
Is this the next UN IPCC shindig?
https://www.pinterest.com.au/pin/274790014742834897/
Anti-Woke!!
Nearly 400′ of sea level rise in the past 18,000 years, and still no webbed feet.
Why would any fool think that moving shorelines inland a ways would cause a land mammal to mutate?
Oh, well, it fits with the rest of the anti-science drivel their religion preaches.
These jackasses really need to get a grip.
I wonder how much time any of them spend realizing that their worlds are immortal in the information age, and they will be laughed at by their progeny for the next forever thousand years.
The odds of this insanity not sticking to them for all of time is zilch.
Nearly 400′ of sea level rise in the past 18,000 years, and still no webbed feet.
Why would any fool think that moving shorelines inland a ways would cause a land mammal to mutate?
Oh, well, it fits with the rest of the anti-science drivel their religion preaches.
These jackasses really need to get a grip.
I wonder how much time any of them spend realizing that their words are immortal in the information age, and they will be laughed at by their progeny for the next forever thousand years.
The odds of this insanity not sticking to them for all of time is zilch.
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seems like the telegram left out some key details
The doctor was specifically asked to predict how we would change in three different worlds
1. Water world. 2. Ice world. 3) off of our planet
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/what-humans-may-look-like-in-the-future-webbed-toes-fewer-teeth-and-extra-eyelids-a6811526.html
In short he was asked on a TV show to predict how living under water would effect our evolution.
You have an English Lit degree so put the blame where it belong on the stupid journalist who inserted the standard reference to climate change to try and suck up to the boss.
Most of us would not put a Water World together with Climate Change but not that journo idiot.
How does that work, exactly!?
Clearly, Dr. Skinner does not understand evolution.
In Dr. Skinner’s thinking, adjustments to be able to use, forage, swim, etc. are passed on to their progeny…
Another leftist elitist fantasy.
I think he forgot that he read Kurt Vonnegut’s Galapagos decades ago:
Galápagos is the story of a small band of mismatched humans who are shipwrecked on the fictional island of Santa Rosalia in the Galápagos Islands after a global financial crisis cripples the world’s economy. Shortly thereafter, a disease renders all humans on Earth infertile, with the exception of the people on Santa Rosalia, making them the last specimens of humankind. Over the next million years, their descendants, the only fertile humans left on the planet, eventually evolve into a furry species resembling sea lions: though possibly still able to walk upright (it is not explicitly mentioned, but it is stated that they occasionally catch land animals), they have a snout with teeth adapted for catching fish, a streamlined skull and flipper-like hands with rudimentary fingers (described as “nubbins”).
Will the ‘silly season’ of MSM news reporting carry on for another 12 years?