Monday October 6, 2008, 9:31 am
The organization's Red List of Threatened Species now lists 44,838 species, of which 16,928 are threatened with extinction. Primates, commonly hunted for bush meat in Africa, are among the most endangered. Also near critical population losses are tapirs, hippos, bears, pigs and hogs.

Monday October 6, 2008, 9:46 am
OMG!! Thanks for this alarming post, Cate!! God protect them all...

Monday October 6, 2008, 9:53 am
This is obscene human behavior! I am so deeply saddened by this...my heart and my spirit hurt very much!

Monday October 6, 2008, 9:57 am
thank you ,so sad indeed

Monday October 6, 2008, 9:58 am
What are we really doing about Global Warming and over population? Lip service mostly. We keep talking but aren't doing enough fast enough.
Thanks Ombretta!

Monday October 6, 2008, 10:01 am
Well, Deborah...when idiots keep proselytizing about there being NO global warming, and more idiots either believe them or just cynically go along so they can keep on polluting....what can we expect? Sighing deeply...

Monday October 6, 2008, 10:08 am
If the corporate/fascists are among the first to go then maybe the rest of us will have a chance . . . And this global 'economic meltdown' will surely slow the pace of destruction -- so that's the silver lining ; /

Monday October 6, 2008, 10:24 am
Thank you Cate! Both the IUCN and Cites dont do enough to stop this....
Many governments still love to shoot animals from the RED LIST!
Wildlifefoundation actiongroup! Protection for all Endangered Species!
http://www.care2.com/c2c/group/Wildlifefoundation

www.wildlifefoundation.info as long as we do not protect all endangered species we will still not be able to stop the clock on extinction!

Monday October 6, 2008, 11:02 am
noted with sadness....

Monday October 6, 2008, 11:10 am
I saw last night on a program that Polar Bears are mating with Grizzlies in Alaska (they are calling them Prizzlies) and a Polar Bear was found 250 miles INLAND from the Arctic Sea--completely uncharacteristic for the species. Just like the Red Wolves here in TX started mating with feral dogs and Coyotes. It is as if they know they are going extinct and are trying a last ditch effort to continue the species in some way or form. It is very sad and it deeply angers me that Mankind it killing off that which is much older, much greater and much wiser than Itself.

It is not just our global warming and climate change that is going to kil out these species, it is our incessant need to procreate beyond what nature can sustain that will drive these and many more to extinction. Too many people!!!

Monday October 6, 2008, 11:33 am
All with thanks to man. Noted with thanks Cate.

Monday October 6, 2008, 11:38 am
Thanks Cate.Will we ever Learn?!

Monday October 6, 2008, 12:20 pm
Yeah, what a surprise, look what the indifference in this World has created!
Indifference is what is wrong with this World! If you are indifferent about the Planet, Wildlife, etc.......you are definately not part of the solution you basically are the problem!!

Monday October 6, 2008, 12:25 pm
HANS L site is wonderful, from the above comments!! It is doing wonderful work for the poor Painted/Wild dogs of Africa. I wish, that people notice these plights many animals are facing in this World. If you judge a person by the way they treat animals you will find their true character!!!
I do not associate with anyone, any group, etc....if they fail my test!!!
That is how I run my life!

Monday October 6, 2008, 12:30 pm
Nigel Calder was editor of Nature until he was replaced because he doesn't support the climate scam.

Yes, global warming "is just propaganda"

OPINION: by Nigel Calder.
Worldwide interest in my quite run-of-the-mill comment, on the need to debate the manmade global warming hypothesis, is pleasing but not surprising. It confirms that my fellow science writers have miscalculated badly. Most readers don't want endless
scare stories about climatic doom, accompanied by authoritarian lectures about their carbon footprints. They're hungry for a variety of opinions.

Unfortunately only 1% of the huge number of articles on climate change in the posh London newspapers deviate from the official line of the Intergovernmental Panel. That's not my reckoning. It comes from researchers at Oxford University who complain about the more balanced reporting in the not-so-posh papers, with a deviancy rate of 23%. They say it has 'skewed public understanding of human contributions to climate change'. In other words, kindly abandon the journalistic principle that different points of views should be heard on controversial matters, or else a lot of dreadful people out there (you or me) may not truly believe that climate change is their fault.

Yes, you've got it. Man-made global warming is just propaganda. My father Ritchie Calder was a science writer too, but during the Second World War he played a leading part in Allied propaganda against Nazi Germany. He told me quite a lot about the tricks, employed in what was then a good cause. Now I watch them being used every day by the global wamers.

For example: exaggerate small facts. A brilliant wartime example came when someone in occupied Belgium was chalking V on public walls. He meant V for Vrijheid, or freedom. But London announced that in occupied Europe people were writing V for Victory everywhere. So people listening secretly to the BBC went out and did just that, to annoy the Germans and hearten their neighbours.

The polar bears qualify as a similarly astute exaggeration from the global warming camp. Some years ago, a small family of bears was caught in a violent storm, and drowned. That could have happened a hundred or a thousand years ago. But no, the Disneyesque sob story is put about, by Al Gore and others, that bears are drowning because the Arctic ice is melting. Total rubbish, because the polar bears are thriving. But it's dazzling propaganda.

Another technique is to hush up unfavourable news. In wartime that can mean not informing even the bereaved relatives if an important warship has sunk without the enemy knowing. Again the polar ice provides a modern parallel. Last year you were told – shock, horror! -- that Arctic sea ice was at its lowest extent since satellite measurements began. What went unreported was that Antarctic sea ice was simultaneously at a record high. The collusion of my fellow journalists in the deception is disturbing. Although the big freeze in Antarctica was plainly announced in a press release from the US weather bureau, NOAA, not a single newspaper in North America or Europe carried this unfavourable story.

My Dad's chief opponent was Hitler's propaganda minister Josef Goebbels. Among many meditations on his craft, he wrote, 'The English follow the principle that when you lie, you should lie big, and stick to it.' And of course Goebbels did the same himself – most wickedly in the case of the Jews.

One big lie about climate change is that man-made global warming is proven scientifically. Not so. On the contrary, any objective physicist would say that the evidence is strongly against it. The very mechanism for the supposed greenhouse warming, reinforced by that extra CO2, requires tropical air temperatures to rise faster at high altitudes (6 miles above the ground) than they do lower down. Weather balloons that routinely carry thermometers to those heights and beyond have shown no such trend over recent decades.

That negative result was an important element of what I had in mind when remarking, in my comment last Monday, that the scientific evidence is far stronger for a rival explanation of climate change. It's the discovery that the Sun controls the cosmic rays that help to make the Earth's clouds. The supporting observations and experiments are explained in simple terms by Dr Henrik Svensmark and me in our book The Chilling Stars.

The biggest lie of all, breathtaking in its audacity, is the insistence that mankind's misbehaviour means that global warming is getting worse. The measurements for August 2008 are just in, and they confirm the world is distinctly cooler this year than last. It's fair enough to argue about whether the Earth's temperature has stopped rising, or merely paused, or gone into reverse. But the key fact is that, despite that indisputable increase of CO2 in the air, the Earth is no warmer now than it was 12 years ago.

Besides being a former editor of New Scientist, Nigel Calder has written three books on climate change. His latest is The Chilling Stars (Icon Books) co-authored with the Danish physicist Henrik Svensmark and described by The Times as 'the new totem of the climate-change sceptics'.

Monday October 6, 2008, 1:40 pm
it's so sad...truly. Something that could have been avoided; too much selfishness & greed in this poor world. We all need to take a good look at ourselves and reflect...do you like the image you see?

Monday October 6, 2008, 1:48 pm
they should hang the alaskan govenor and see how being shot in the ass would hurt her

Monday October 6, 2008, 2:57 pm
Terrie Williams...here is a story about pplar grizzly hybrid. Sad though stupid hunters killed it!!

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/05/bear-hybrid-photo.html

Very interesting though.

Monday October 6, 2008, 2:58 pm
ooops pplar=polar bear

Monday October 6, 2008, 3:11 pm
How sad Cate. Thanks for the info.

Monday October 6, 2008, 3:17 pm
What a dismal Planet Blah thi will be without biodiversity. Thanks Ombretta!

Monday October 6, 2008, 3:19 pm
Yeah, I know Jodi, it sickened me that they killed it first then decided to test its DNA to determine its origens--idiots. Thanks for the link!

Monday October 6, 2008, 4:23 pm
We're in an extinction event that would rival the ones of the past... think 65 million years ago when the dinosaurs were wiped out. Scientists are now refering to the extinctions of today as "The Sixth Extinction".

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/9902/fngm/

Monday October 6, 2008, 4:26 pm
How many children do you have? If you have more than two, your are contributing to growth and development. I have no children, and plan on one child and adoption.

Do you worship celebrities? Celebreties represent corportate America - the average acto or athlete paid the same as a corporate CEO. Why is it acceptable for celebrities to travel by private jet but the rest of us cannot use fossil fuel?

There are alternatives. People are beginning to eat flexitarian/vegetarian. People are beginning to use alternative transport.

Monday October 6, 2008, 5:21 pm
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Monday October 6, 2008, 5:41 pm
So very sad . You think some would wake up!Thanks,Cate.

Monday October 6, 2008, 6:50 pm
These animals are litterly fighting to survive, and then there are some of 'us' going on our merry way being blind, indifferent and stupid. Thanks Cate.

Monday October 6, 2008, 7:41 pm
Thanks for the info. Posted the story in another group, not on Care2.

Monday October 6, 2008, 8:12 pm
I have seen first hand, with my own eyes, dying coral reefs! In 1976, I have seen glaciers in Alaska that were in trouble, I went back a few years ago and could not believe how much had changed... the Glaciers I had seen in 1976 were almost gone. The pollution was horrible! Diseased trees dying by hundreds of thousands and no doubt by the millions. At that was in Alaska.

Skydiving from 13,000 AGL, you can't help but notice a blanket of pollution that covers the ground... and the pollution is so bad that in some parts, the sunlight reaching the ground has been reduced by 30%! (Google Global Dimming for more information!)

Yes, it is easy to dismiss all of these signs. It is easy to say that this is part of Earths natural cycle...

Monday October 6, 2008, 8:30 pm
SO much for the Grizzly Hybrid trying to keep there breed going anyway they can.. cept.. Humans will destroy anything unusual so they can show there kill.. CAN"T for once can they take a digital camera shot of it & leave the dam Hybrid alone... wished someone would think hunters were hybrids & shoot a few of them,... the Species don't have a chance with idiots like this.. mammals are in trouble for hunters don't give a rats ass what they kill as long as they get something..its sad for all these beautiful unusual mammals will only be a story around some bar one day... & there will be no more .. so sad what this world has become .. YES they could have learned so much from the Native Americans.. at least THEY knew how to respect the very animal that they hunted & not to kill to extinction... so sad

Monday October 6, 2008, 8:32 pm
Noted..Thanks Cate...

Monday October 6, 2008, 8:58 pm
Noted, thank you. I wonder which species we will kill off via global warming or some other human ignorance, that will seal our fates as well.

Tuesday October 7, 2008, 12:13 am
THIS SHOULD MAKE ALL SICK AT MANKIND THE EVIL ONES AND THE THUGS WITH NO REGARD FOR OUR FUTURE CHRIS

Tuesday October 7, 2008, 4:56 am
Noted, thanks!
Note my news about this issue, please!
Thanks my dear friends

Tuesday October 7, 2008, 7:35 am
To answer your question, Daniel, since no one else is acknowledging it, I have NONE. I made sure of that at age 25 before I got married. I have never regretted that decision.

Tuesday October 7, 2008, 9:03 am
Good article, Cate....it was on TV this morning in the ribbon that's at the bottom of the screen....the word is getting out, but it's overshadowed by finances and this everlasting election.

Tuesday October 7, 2008, 9:40 am


Thank you for this Cate!

Over thirty years ago I wrote an article about extinction of other species, but no one was interested at that time. In the article I had mentioned how long the dinosaurs had inhabited the earth.

This information does not surprise me, although it did give me a sinking feeling in the pit of my stomach! It was just a matter of time before the scientists got all their information together. It is very obvious that the burgeoning human population has been squeezing out all other species for a very long time.

Our governments have tunnel vision. All they are interested in is seeing how to get another vote! None of them can grasp the overall picture of our planet's downward trend and the reality that is staring them in the face - we either make a move NOW or we are all doomed!

Agree with Dave Kane's comment above. Maybe this economic crisis does have a silver lining - but for how long??

Tuesday October 7, 2008, 11:36 am
Too bad humans aren't on that list! Only when humans become an endangered species will this planet have a chance of survival!

Ironically, along with all the species we are exterminating we are also endangering our own future! Aren't humans so smart? Aren't humans the superior species?

Humans are nothing but the cruellest, the most arrogant and destructive species on earth!

Tuesday October 7, 2008, 4:03 pm
Too bad Sarah Palin isn't PRO LIFE for the species other than humans. We are the only species actively trying to destroy our planet. People think I am crazy that I value an animal life equal or more to a human life. What makes us so special? I don't see that we are so great. Seem to be lacking compassion for all others.

Tuesday October 7, 2008, 7:23 pm
Human overpopulation.

Friday October 10, 2008, 2:40 pm
WHEN THE ANIMALS ARE ALL GONE SO THEN SHALL MAN PERISH FROM THE FACE OF THE EARTH. FOR WE CAN NOT SURVIVE WITHOUT THE BLESSINGS AND TREASURES THEY HAVE TO OFFER US. THEY HELP MAKE US WHO WE ARE.

Saturday October 11, 2008, 10:55 am
Robin - Great words - my wish would be that we may be the 1 in 4 to go, BEFORE we destroy all else around us, Without Mankind there would not be a even a 1 in 100 dying.