Oh, good: another Prediction of Doom.
Can’t wait to add this one to the ozone layer and acid rain. Oh, and swine flu, and bird flu, and monkey flu.
There was a monkey flu, right? I’m not just subconsciously making that up?
Ocean life on the brink of mass extinctions: study
OSLO (Reuters) – Life in the oceans is at imminent risk of the worst spate of extinctions in millions of years due to threats such as climate change and over-fishing, a study showed on Tuesday.
What’s the current “worst spate of extinctions” on record, I wonder? Just for comparison’s sake?
Time was running short to counter hazards such as a collapse of coral reefs or a spread of low-oxygen “dead zones,” according to the study led by the International Programme on the State of the Ocean (IPSO).
“We now face losing marine species and entire marine ecosystems, such as coral reefs, within a single generation,” according to the study by 27 experts to be presented to the United Nations.
So that’s bad, in a relatively hypothetical sort of way. Look, I don’t want species to go extinct, but the bottom line is: how will this affect my ability to watch bad movies on cable on Friday night while eating supermarket pizza?
Are you honestly telling me we’re going to run out of fish?
What’s amazing to me is: there’s anybody left who still believes these Predictions of Doom. Even the scientists making the Predictions of Doom. “Didn’t we just predict doom last week?” “Well, yeah.” “Should we really be doing it again?” “Shut up, Poindexter, and pass me another reasearch grant.”
I’d be just a little more inclined to believe this Prediction of Doom if any of the past ones had turned out to be true, but they didn’t.
Of course, if any of them had turned out to be true, I’d be using a little rock to scrape this blog post onto a big rock while keeping an eye out for the giant mutant birds who might fly out of the clouds and carry me off to their nests. Which is an outcome I’d do an awful lot to avoid.
Which is kind of the point behind these Predictions of Doom.
UPDATE – the headline on Memeorandum:
World’s oceans in ‘shocking’ decline
I thought the world’s oceans were rising?
UPDATE II- Bill Teach is hoping this’ll mean no more Krakens.
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