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Holocene Sixth Mass Extinction Event In Progress


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SirRobert
- 298 days ago - volconvo.com
Earth's geologic record contains 5 previously set precedents for mass extinction events and most people are 'not' even aware that we have already entered the Holocene Sixth Mass Extinction event in progress! This is a public call for immediate action!
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SirRobert THE FIFTH KNIGHT (271)
Wednesday February 4, 2009, 5:26 am
Activist Checklist:

1. Become Aware!
2. Select a General and Special Category!!
3. Research and Learn!!!
4. Target an Active Goal!!!!
5. Make Others Aware!!!!!
6. Be Relentless Toward Your Goal!!!!!!
7. Petition, Protest, Speak, Write and Create the Desired Change You Seek - Make it Happen!!!!!!!


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Dusty R. (1351)
Wednesday February 4, 2009, 7:05 am
Thank you Robert. Have noted and checked out links. Some good info here.
 

Janet Wintle (87)
Wednesday February 4, 2009, 7:16 am
I have Hope. Hope that humanity will wake up and take notice.
I have already told you the solution to the prevention of a mass of destruction for tilt in 2012, when Naberu passes close to the Earth.
The Pyramids have to be in order by the year 2010.
Dr Hawass who is in charge of the monuments in Egypt will need funding from all over the world.
If we all sent a pound for this to be achieved then we can work together.
These were the power Stations from the past. Solar powered and it must be got ready if there is going to be any chance at stopping this event from happening.
I am tired and need your help to bring this about . I do not no how to get the rest of this out.
I love you all for trying to make a differance but they did most of the work with the amount of stone they placed it in the correct amounts for stone being magnetic will hold us in position at time of pull.Janet
 

Past Member (59)
Wednesday February 4, 2009, 7:51 am
Thank you for sharing this important info, Robert. Some great links there, and i am yet to get all of the reading done. Thank you kindly for accepting my friend request.
 

Beatrice B. (63)
Wednesday February 4, 2009, 10:05 am
There is little doubt left in the minds of professional biologists that Earth is currently faced with a mounting loss of species that threatens to rival the five great mass extinctions of the geological past. As long ago as 1993, Harvard biologist E.O. Wilson estimated that Earth is currently losing something on the order of 30,000 species per year — which breaks down to the even more daunting statistic of some three species per hour. Some biologists have begun to feel that this biodiversity crisis — this “Sixth Extinction” — is even more severe, and more imminent, than Wilson had supposed.

Extinction in the past
The major global biotic turnovers were all caused by physical events that lay outside the normal climatic and other physical disturbances which species, and entire ecosystems, experience and survive. What caused them?

The previous mass extinctions were due to natural causes.•First major extinction (c. 440 mya): Climate change (relatively severe and sudden global cooling) seems to have been at work at the first of these-the end-Ordovician mass extinction that caused such pronounced change in marine life (little or no life existed on land at that time). 25% of families lost (a family may consist of a few to thousands of species).

•Second major extinction (c. 370 mya): The next such event, near the end of the Devonian Period, may or may not have been the result of global climate change. 19% of families lost.

•Third major Extinction (c. 245 mya): Scenarios explaining what happened at the greatest mass extinction event of them all (so far, at least!) at the end of the Permian Period have been complex amalgams of climate change perhaps rooted in plate tectonics movements. Very recently, however, evidence suggests that a bolide impact similar to the end-Cretaceous event may have been the cause. 54% of families lost.

•Fourth major extinction (c. 210 mya): The event at the end of the Triassic Period, shortly after dinosaurs and mammals had first evolved, also remains difficult to pin down in terms of precise causes. 23% of families lost.

•Fifth major extinction (c. 65 mya): Most famous, perhaps, was the most recent of these events at the end-Cretaceous. It wiped out the remaining terrestrial dinosaurs and marine ammonites, as well as many other species across the phylogenetic spectrum, in all habitats sampled from the fossil record. Consensus has emerged in the past decade that this event was caused by one (possibly multiple) collisions between Earth and an extraterrestrial bolide (probably cometary). Some geologists, however, point to the great volcanic event that produced the Deccan traps of India as part of the chain of physical events that disrupted ecosystems so severely that many species on land and sea rapidly succumbed to extinction. 17% of families lost.

How is the Sixth Extinction different from previous events?
The current mass extinction is caused by humans.At first glance, the physically caused extinction events of the past might seem to have little or nothing to tell us about the current Sixth Extinction, which is a patently human-caused event. For there is little doubt that humans are the direct cause of ecosystem stress and species destruction in the modern world through such activities as:

•transformation of the landscape
•overexploitation of species
•pollution
•the introduction of alien species
And because Homo sapiens is clearly a species of animal (however behaviorally and ecologically peculiar an animal), the Sixth Extinction would seem to be the first recorded global extinction event that has a biotic, rather than a physical, cause.

We are bringing about massive changes in the environment.Yet, upon further reflection, human impact on the planet is a direct analogue of the Cretaceous cometary collision. Sixty-five million years ago that extraterrestrial impact — through its sheer explosive power, followed immediately by its injections of so much debris into the upper reaches of the atmosphere that global temperatures plummeted and, most critically, photosynthesis was severely inhibited — wreaked havoc on the living systems of Earth. That is precisely what human beings are doing to the planet right now: humans are causing vast physical changes on the planet.

What is the Sixth Extinction?
We can divide the Sixth Extinction into two discrete phases:

•Phase One began when the first modern humans began to disperse to different parts of the world about 100,000 years ago.
•Phase Two began about 10,000 years ago when humans turned to agriculture.
Humans began disrupting the environment as soon as they appeared on Earth.The first phase began shortly after Homo sapiens evolved in Africa and the anatomically modern humans began migrating out of Africa and spreading throughout the world. Humans reached the middle east 90,000 years ago. They were in Europe starting around 40,000 years ago. Neanderthals, who had long lived in Europe, survived our arrival for less than 10,000 years, but then abruptly disappeared — victims, according to many paleoanthropologists, of our arrival through outright warfare or the more subtle, though potentially no less devastating effects, of being on the losing side of ecological competition.

Everywhere, shortly after modern humans arrived, many (especially, though by no means exclusively, the larger) native species typically became extinct. Humans were like bulls in a China shop:

•They disrupted ecosystems by overhunting game species, which never experienced contact with humans before.
•And perhaps they spread microbial disease-causing organisms as well.
The fossil record attests to human destruction of ecosystems:

Wherever early humans migrated, other species became extinct.•Humans arrived in large numbers in North America roughly 12,500 years ago-and sites revealing the butchering of mammoths, mastodons and extinct buffalo are well documented throughout the continent. The demise of the bulk of the La Brea tar pit Pleistocene fauna coincided with our arrival.
•The Caribbean lost several of its larger species when humans arrived some 8000 years ago.
•Extinction struck elements of the Australian megafauna much earlier-when humans arrived some 40,000 years ago. Madagascar-something of an anomaly, as humans only arrived there two thousand years ago-also fits the pattern well: the larger species (elephant birds, a species of hippo, plus larger lemurs) rapidly disappeared soon after humans arrived.
Indeed only in places where earlier hominid species had lived (Africa, of course, but also most of Europe and Asia) did the fauna, already adapted to hominid presence, survive the first wave of the Sixth Extinction pretty much intact. The rest of the world’s species, which had never before encountered hominids in their local ecosystems, were as naively unwary as all but the most recently arrived species (such as Vermilion Flycatchers) of the Galapagos Islands remain to this day.

Why does the Sixth Extinction continue?
The invention of agriculture accelerated the pace of the Sixth Extinction.Phase two of the Sixth Extinction began around 10,000 years ago with the invention of agriculture-perhaps first in the Natufian culture of the Middle East. Agriculture appears to have been invented several different times in various different places, and has, in the intervening years, spread around the entire globe.

Agriculture represents the single most profound ecological change in the entire 3.5 billion-year history of life. With its invention:

•humans did not have to interact with other species for survival, and so could manipulate other species for their own use
•humans did not have to adhere to the ecosystem’s carrying capacity, and so could overpopulate
Humans do not live with nature but outside it.Homo sapiens became the first species to stop living inside local ecosystems. All other species, including our ancestral hominid ancestors, all pre-agricultural humans, and remnant hunter-gatherer societies still extant exist as semi-isolated populations playing specific roles (i.e., have “niches”) in local ecosystems. This is not so with post-agricultural revolution humans, who in effect have stepped outside local ecosystems. Indeed, to develop agriculture is essentially to declare war on ecosystems - converting land to produce one or two food crops, with all other native plant species all now classified as unwanted “weeds” — and all but a few domesticated species of animals now considered as pests.

The total number of organisms within a species is limited by many factors-most crucial of which is the “carrying capacity” of the local ecosystem: given the energetic needs and energy-procuring adaptations of a given species, there are only so many squirrels, oak trees and hawks that can inhabit a given stretch of habitat. Agriculture had the effect of removing the natural local-ecosystem upper limit of the size of human populations. Though crops still fail regularly, and famine and disease still stalk the land, there is no doubt that agriculture in the main has had an enormous impact on human population size:

Earth can’t sustain the trend in human population growth. It is reaching its limit in carrying capacity.•Estimates vary, but range between 1 and 10 million people on earth 10,000 years ago.
•There are now over 6 billion people.
•The numbers continue to increase logarithmically — so that there will be 8 billion by 2020.
•There is presumably an upper limit to the carrying capacity of humans on earth — of the numbers that agriculture can support — and that number is usually estimated at between 13-15 billion, though some people think the ultimate numbers might be much higher.
This explosion of human population, especially in the post-Industrial Revolution years of the past two centuries, coupled with the unequal distribution and consumption of wealth on the planet, is the underlying cause of the Sixth Extinction. There is a vicious cycle:

Overpopulation, invasive species, and overexploitation are fueling the extinction.•More lands are cleared and more efficient production techniques (most recently engendered largely through genetic engineering) to feed the growing number of humans — and in response, the human population continues to expand.
•Higher fossil energy use is helping agriculture spread, further modifying the environment.
•Humans continue to fish (12 of the 13 major fisheries on the planet are now considered severely depleted) and harvest timber for building materials and just plain fuel, pollution, and soil erosion from agriculture creates dead zones in fisheries (as in the Gulf of Mexico)
•While the human Diaspora has meant the spread, as well, of alien species that more often than not thrive at the detriment of native species. For example, invasive species have contributed to 42% of all threatened and endangered species in the U.S.
Can conservation measures stop the Sixth Extinction?
Only 10% of the world’s species survived the third mass extinction. Will any survive this one?The world’s ecosystems have been plunged into chaos, with some conservation biologists thinking that no system, not even the vast oceans, remains untouched by human presence. Conservation measures, sustainable development, and, ultimately, stabilization of human population numbers and consumption patterns seem to offer some hope that the Sixth Extinction will not develop to the extent of the third global extinction, some 245 mya, when 90% of the world’s species were lost.

Though it is true that life, so incredibly resilient, has always recovered (though after long lags) after major extinction spasms, it is only after whatever has caused the extinction event has dissipated. That cause, in the case of the Sixth Extinction, is ourselves — Homo sapiens. This means we can continue on the path to our own extinction, or, preferably, we modify our behavior toward the global ecosystem of which we are still very much a part. The latter must happen before the Sixth Extinction can be declared over, and life can once again rebound.

 

Past Member (0)
Wednesday February 4, 2009, 12:04 pm
After all I think that it is too late to stop what we will be facing soon. We can try to give it a delay or brake, nothing else.
 

Judy Cross (83)
Wednesday February 4, 2009, 4:51 pm
Excuse me...what are we going to do about an asteroid or a super volcano?

Nothing man does can compare with either of those real "extinction event" producers.

Get a sandwich board and go stand on a street corner handing out "The End Is Neigh" pamphlets or join the Jehovah's Witnesses....you make about as much sense carrying on about "Extinction Events" Jeesh!
 

Barbara Liebowitz (877)
Wednesday February 4, 2009, 6:36 pm
interesting noted thank you
 

SirRobert THE FIFTH KNIGHT (271)
Thursday February 5, 2009, 7:18 am
Is it conceivably even possible, that 'any person' (just a tiny example: GWB & Dick Cheney . . . etc.), or anyone else for that matter opposed to reducing an extinction-level event, could possibly be guarding their lifetime financial security bankroll; by way of a petroleum-oil stock portfolio ($$$)-- ???

Whenever the doom & gloom crowd refuses to REDUCE the effects of an extinction-event for endangered species (including Humans!), then I become suspicious of their 'INACTIVE' mentally-ill, morally bankrupt, self-centered, apathetic and ignorantly whimpish surrender, toward the hidden ulterior motive of a monetary gain for Greed & Self-Protection ($$$) -- The Bottom Line!

Or -- Is it just the fear of having to learn a 'new' way of life, that of ---------

------------ GREEN LIVING!!! ----------------

Do they not realize, that their very own inaction could quite possibly wipe-out their financial livelihood, just before they are able to die themselves, and leave their self-protected 'safe' little imaginary bubble-world???

I would rather die fighting for my right to survive, and 'not' go out meaninglessly taking others with me -- mindlessly!


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Judy Cross (83)
Thursday February 5, 2009, 10:08 am
Just what is going to produce his mass extinction? A temperature change? Aside from the fact that since the Sun went quiet and the PDO switched to its cool phase, temperatures have been dropping...so "Global Warming isn't happening anymore.

Even if it were, it was WARMER in the tropicS when that newly found giant SNAKE FOSSIL WAS STILL SLITHERING AROUND.

"The giant Colombian snake is a truly exciting discovery. For years, herpetologists have argued about just how big snakes can get, with debatable estimates of the max somewhere less than 40 feet" (12.3 metres), said leading snake expert Harry Greene of Cornell University, New York.

Titanoboa cerrejonensis -- whose Latin name honours the coal mine -- is not only a source of jaw-dropping wonder. It is also a useful indicator as to the world's climate after the dinosaurs were wiped out some 65 million years ago, the team say. Unlike mammals, reptiles cannot regulate their own temperature. As a result, they are limited in body size by the ambient temperature of where they live. For example, reptiles today are bigger in the tropics than they are in cooler latitudes.

Based on T. cerrejonensis, the scientists calculate that the mean annual temperature in equatorial South America 60 million years ago would have been 30-34 degrees Celsius, or 86-93 degrees Fahrenheit. That makes it around 3-4 C (5.5-7.2 F) hotter than tropical rainforests today."


"The paper is published by the British-based weekly science journal Nature. The world's longest snake today is the Asian reticulated python, specimens of which can grow around 10 metres (32.5 feet), and the biggest in terms of mass is the green anaconda, with some specimens weighing 227 kilos (550 pounds).'

Spare me your fanciful "science" and your self-righteousness.
 

SirRobert THE FIFTH KNIGHT (271)
Thursday February 5, 2009, 1:13 pm
I invite anyone who has 'not' read the provided links within this report, to please visit and 'read': Holocene Sixth Mass Extinction Event In Progress - Main Article

Highlighted Article: "The Sixth Extinction" - ActionBioscience.org (See Continuation of Following Article - Url below)

Review Article Excerpt:

There is little doubt left in the minds of professional biologists that Earth is currently faced with a mounting loss of species that threatens to rival the five great mass extinctions of the geological past. As long ago as 1993, Harvard biologist E.O. Wilson estimated that Earth is currently losing something on the order of 30,000 species per year — which breaks down to the even more daunting statistic of some three species per hour. Some biologists have begun to feel that this biodiversity crisis — this “Sixth Extinction” — is even more severe, and more imminent, than Wilson had supposed.

Extinction in the past:

The major global biotic turnovers were all caused by physical events that lay outside the normal climatic and other physical disturbances which species, and entire ecosystems, experience and survive. What caused them?

The previous mass extinctions were due to natural causes.

> First major extinction (c. 440 mya):

Climate change (relatively severe and sudden global cooling) seems to have been at work at the first of these-the end-Ordovician mass extinction that caused such pronounced change in marine life (little or no life existed on land at that time). 25% of families lost (a family may consist of a few to thousands of species).

> Second major extinction (c. 370 mya):

The next such event, near the end of the Devonian Period, may or may not have been the result of global climate change. 19% of families lost.

> Third major Extinction (c. 245 mya):

Scenarios explaining what happened at the greatest mass extinction event of them all (so far, at least!) at the end of the Permian Period have been complex amalgams of climate change perhaps rooted in plate tectonics movements. Very recently, however, evidence suggests that a bolide impact similar to the end-Cretaceous event may have been the cause. 54% of families lost.

> Fourth major extinction (c. 210 mya):

The event at the end of the Triassic Period, shortly after dinosaurs and mammals had first evolved, also remains difficult to pin down in terms of precise causes. 23% of families lost.

> Fifth major extinction (c. 65 mya):

Most famous, perhaps, was the most recent of these events at the end-Cretaceous. It wiped out the remaining terrestrial dinosaurs and marine ammonites, as well as many other species across the phylogenetic spectrum, in all habitats sampled from the fossil record. Consensus has emerged in the past decade that this event was caused by one (possibly multiple) collisions between Earth and an extraterrestrial bolide (probably cometary). Some geologists, however, point to the great volcanic event that produced the Deccan traps of India as part of the chain of physical events that disrupted ecosystems so severely that many species on land and sea rapidly succumbed to extinction. 17% of families lost.

How is the Sixth Extinction different from previous events?

The current mass extinction is caused by humans.

At first glance, the physically caused extinction events of the past might seem to have little or nothing to tell us about the current Sixth Extinction, which is a patently human-caused event. For there is little doubt that humans are the direct cause of ecosystem stress and species destruction in the modern world through such activities as:

> transformation of the landscape
> overexploitation of species
> pollution
> the introduction of alien species

And because Homo sapiens is clearly a species of animal (however behaviorally and ecologically peculiar an animal), the Sixth Extinction would seem to be the first recorded global extinction event that has a biotic, rather than a physical, cause.

We are bringing about massive changes in the environment.
Yet, upon further reflection, human impact on the planet is a direct analogue of the Cretaceous cometary collision. Sixty-five million years ago that extraterrestrial impact — through its sheer explosive power, followed immediately by its injections of so much debris into the upper reaches of the atmosphere that global temperatures plummeted and, most critically, photosynthesis was severely inhibited — wreaked havoc on the living systems of Earth. That is precisely what human beings are doing to the planet right now: humans are causing vast physical changes on the planet.

What is the Sixth Extinction?

* Please Finish Reading This Article at: The Sixth Extinction - ActionBioscience.org
 

Aletta Kraan (31)
Thursday February 5, 2009, 4:22 pm
Noted, thanks !!
 

Angela Kitt (53)
Thursday February 5, 2009, 5:05 pm
Thanks for the Great article.Noted and forwarded
 

Ray W. (11)
Thursday February 5, 2009, 6:25 pm
I imagine that the chemtrails are not helping things much either! Not only do we have this event to deal with but they are trying to kills by spraying our sky's with a dangerous concoction filled with nano size particles that we all breath.
 

Judy Cross (83)
Thursday February 5, 2009, 10:33 pm
Glad you brought up Chemtrails Ray. An "extinction event" should be taking into account not only the poisoning of the Earth by barium by the US military, but also its use of DU munitions spreading radiation around the world.

Are these jokers are serious about blaming CO2 for the destruction when there are real dangers from deliberate contamination by the military?

It's kind of sick making that these clowns continue with this nonsense and get people to count their CARBON FOOTPRINTS WHEN THEY SHOULD BE DEMANDING THE MILITARY STOP POISONING US.

THE EXTINCTION PLANNED IS THAT OF MOST HUMANS. GLOBALISTS WANT IT ALL TO THEMSELVES.
 

BB K. (150)
Thursday February 5, 2009, 10:49 pm
Robert, you really must share some of that stuff you are smoking :)
 

SirRobert THE FIFTH KNIGHT (271)
Friday February 6, 2009, 5:50 am
Where there is 'smoke' there is FIRE! Here is the source for major rational concern - New Care2 News Article Just Released (Science & Technology):

Scientific Experts: National Survey Reveals Biodiversity Mass Extinction Crisis - (Poses Threat to Human Survival; Public Unaware of Danger)


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Robert Garvin (25)
Friday February 6, 2009, 6:12 am
A very interesting concoction of theories put forward by a group who often refuse to accept their own findings even when they are blatantly obvious. The whole surface of the earth was destroyed, including dinosaurs and every other type of creature.
The world was turned from a delightfully beautiful landscape to one of devastation in just a short period of almost 6 weeks.

Except for the two by two of the unclean and the 7s of the clean creatures that were sent to Noah, EVERYTHING WAS COVERED BY WATER and the whole surface of the earth was churned up. the atmosphere was changed as well. Where once there was a beautiful planet, now it was rough and broken. There is so much evidence for the flood that so called science tries to twiddle round to try and fit some theory.

Take for instance just one point. How come there are shafts of coal going from one massive coal seam up to another and it just happens to be the size of just one tree? I have only been around on this earth for almost 70 years and I have not seen any trees that have withstood the rotting factor, maybe huon pine, that sets in and totally destroys through rotting. By the same token, posts have been placed in fencelines and after just 50 years, the part in the ground has turned to petrified wood while the upper part of the post is still just plain wood.

It must have been quite a laugh when the blokes presented the posts to the university to get their readings on the ages of the posts. They even did tests to try and find out how these dumb farmers were able to glue the petrified wood to the obvious dry wood post.

I do not think that it was really that funny, simply because the petrified stuff "just had to be 50,000 years old" while the rest of the post was only 50 years old plus the age it had taken to grow.

The reality of the whole situation comes down to the fact that evolutionists will go to the enth degree to try and refute the obvious situation of Special Creation, which, by the way, calls for everyone to be subject to some universal laws which demand that man MUST care for not only his fellow man but also the environment that he lives in. Move away from that and we have the earth problems that we are in today. Man refused to obey and now he wants to blame everything else but his own actions. They refuse to accept that there is such a thing as sin because that might infer that they are to be held accountable to a Righteous God who tells them that eventually they will be held accountable for their misdeeds.

Well, you can only run away so far. Accountability WILL catch up with all whether you are religious or not religious, a believer in God or not a believer in God, it just does not matter what you believe, YOU WILL BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE FOR WHAT YOU COULD HAVE KNOWN BUT REFUSED. By the way, that covers me as well.
 

Janet Wintle (87)
Friday February 6, 2009, 7:42 am
Hello again my Dear Friends of the Earth. It is time to forget the past and concentrate on the Danger we are facing.
This is the true science of the Earth.
In the year 2012 this planet will tip over to a new position if you do not listen to what is being told you.
It can be prevented.
BUT YOU HAVE TO HELP YOURSELVES.
Remember this. The planet is only a ball spinning in space by the magnetic pushing and pulling from all the planets that surround it.
When a Planet like Naberu comes on its visit near the Earth every 3600 years we have floods and Volcanoes Earthquakes and much upheaval.
It passes in frount of the Sun and we get pulled over to a new position.
MUCH LIFE IS LOST.
Only the high ground is safe.and why all the Ancient manuscripts have always been given to various people to hold until the time is right to give out certain information.
I am one of the keepers of wisdom and have to explain that this time we have Mercury in a planetary line up at time of the crossing that helps pull on the Earths Waters. You will all be feeling a little out of balance due to the approach you must lighten up your bodies.
This can be done with Green energy from the Suns rays. These rays penetrate into all the plants and grasses that grow in harmony on the Planet. You can drink the Oil from seeds ,easy to produce and easy to store. This oil will give you energy without the need for much else.
Help Dr Hawass to put back the Pyramids in the correct working order for these are the power stations used and constructed for this occurrence. They also are the communication systems which will be needed soon.
Communications are with the star system of Orin.
Blessings be upon you all for helping the Earth we have Hope.
That was in Pandora's Box remember. Thank you Father for my strength. Janet.
 
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