More fear from your not-so-friendly neighborhood environmental wackos

[Happy Fun Ball]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10028755993

MoonRiver (27,720 posts)

Great Barrier Reef declared dead at 25 million years old.


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The Great Barrier Reef has been declared dead by scientists at 25 million years old — bringing an end to the colorful life of the world’s largest single structure of living organisms.

The incredible Coral Sea wilderness, which stretches for roughly 1,400 miles over an area of roughly 133,00 square miles, has finally succumbed to bleaching.


http://nypost.com/2016/10/14/the-great-barrier-reef-is-dead-at-25-million-years-old

Oh n03s! Whatever shall we do? Apparently, I had one bulb (a nightlight even) that was still incandescent, and it seems that single bulb killed the ENTIRE reef.

kimbutgar (4,839 posts)
2. This is a mass extinction event precursor

I just wish it wasn't a NY post link.

spanone (91,247 posts)
3. thanks humans!

world wide wally (8,510 posts)
15. I guess Bannon and Trump will have to hold from popping the cork on that bottle of cheap

champagne for the moment

But wait, what's this? Could it be.....YES! It is! FAAAAAKE NEEEEEWS! The whole thing is made up. Worthless. Bupkis. Not even junk science.

PSPS (6,595 posts)
7. In other words, it's "fake news". It was a hoax article.

Read this: http://www.cnn.com/2016/10/14/us/barrier-reef-obit-trnd

demmiblue (10,817 posts)
11. DU needs a fake news/hoax option for jury duty. n/t

Then about 95% of the posts would be hidden.

Dr Hobbitstein (4,576 posts)
33. I did an SOP alert.

Even included a link to Snopes where it was debunked. The post still stands.

We do need a fake news alert button. Confirmation bias isn't just for Republicans, sadly.

scheming daemons (22,585 posts)
31. IT IS FAKE NEWS!

You should be ashamed of yourself.

Democrats and shame go together like day and night.

PSPS (6,595 posts)
6. It's a hoax article intended to bring attention to the reef's present state.

http://www.cnn.com/2016/10/14/us/barrier-reef-obit-trnd

Warren DeMontague (76,529 posts)
24. It's a tactic I've seen time and again, and I think it's deeply counterproductive.

Hyperbolic bullshit in the cause of furthering environmental awareness does NOT create new environmentalists; rather, it causes people to be more likely to consider all environmental warnings bullshit.

I worked with the Rainforest Action Network in the 80s-- I remember one piece of breathless nonsense I would hear repeated as gospel "scientific" truth; "Planet Earth will not be able to sustain any life more complex than a cockroach, by the year 2000"

Obviously that was not the case, was it, fellow cockroaches?

A similar scenario took place several years ago when people said the Himalayan Snowpack would be gone in a decade, or so.

The problem with this 'approach' is, it does not cause people to go "OH MY ****ING GOD I BETTER DO SOMETHING RIGHT NOW" which, I presume, is the intent- rather, it makes them throw up their hands and even worse, when they discover they were lied to, to not take any environmental warnings seriously-- like, yes, rainforest depletion and global climate change ARE real problems that deserve serious attention.

Same with ocean acidification and warming.

Anyone else hearing about a thousand air raid sirens going all at once?

nolabear (24,367 posts)
13. You should remove this. I appreciate the fear but it's not true.

"I appreciate the fear"? What kind of... I know they live in constant fear, but they actually enjoy it? There's crazy. There's insane. And then there's the moonbat.

Dr Hobbitstein (4,576 posts)
25. Like lemmings off a cliff.

Read the headline, accept it as truth, ignore the comments that challenge your bias.

And you're just now figuring this out? Well...this blind squirrel is just going to put that nut back down shortly and keep stumbling.

demmiblue (10,817 posts)
26. I don't even think many of them read the comments or the articles.

They read the title, recognize the person who posted it and rec accordingly.

And after a couple of days, it's still up.

Dr Hobbitstein (4,576 posts)
29. So, you're not gonna delete this?

You're OK with posting EXTREMELY misleading information?

scheming daemons (22,585 posts)
30. PLEASE DELETE THIS FAKE NEWS!

This is not how we operate. We're not conservatives.

Don't spread false stories!

snooper2 (28,664 posts)
37. wonder how many times this bullshit has been shared on facebook by now?

The Internet is making people ****ing stupid

[Carl]

We don`t call them DUmmies for nothing.

[BlueStateSaint]

snooper2 (28,664 posts)
37. wonder how many times this bullshit has been shared on facebook by now?

The Internet is making people ****ing stupid

No, you primitives are stupid all by yourselves.  As our exposure of you, day-after-day, every day, proves.

[SVPete]

Warren DeMontague (76,529 posts)
24. It's a tactic I've seen time and again, and I think it's deeply counterproductive.

Hyperbolic bullshit in the cause of furthering environmental awareness does NOT create new environmentalists; rather, it causes people to be more likely to consider all environmental warnings bullshit.

I worked with the Rainforest Action Network in the 80s-- I remember one piece of breathless nonsense I would hear repeated as gospel "scientific" truth; "Planet Earth will not be able to sustain any life more complex than a cockroach, by the year 2000"

Fake EnviroCrises have been the strategy of the Enviros since at least Rachel Carson and Paul Ehrlich. Aside from those significant quibbles, WDM has it right. I recognized the pattern in the late 70s or early 80s and regard anything/everything the Enviros excrete as probable equine excrement (plus or minus the specific species of origin).

[Undies]

Warren DeMontague (76,529 posts)
24. It's a tactic I've seen time and again, and I think it's deeply counterproductive.

In reality, all liberal/DUmmie/democrat tactics are counterproductive as far as I am concerned.  If a liberal/democrat is professing concerned about something, I figure the concern is dishonest in nature and a ridiculous attempt to injure civilized decency.  That way, I have no problem with anything to do with you DUmmies.

[98ZJUSMC]

In reality, all liberal/DUmmie/democrat tactics are counterproductive as far as I am concerned.  If a liberal/democrat is professing concerned about something, I figure the concern is dishonest in nature and a ridiculous attempt to injure civilized decency.  That way, I have no problem with anything to do with you DUmmies.

[BattleHymn]

Do not fret, DUmmies!  I have a simple plan to recreate the maybe/maybe not dead reef:

1. All DUmmies commit suicide en mass

2. DUmmie bodies get dumped into a huge pile out in the ocean somewhere

3. DUmmie meat gets picked clean until nothing but a huge pile of DUmmie bones remains.

4. DUmmie bones become anchor material for new coral reef!!


We can call it the Great DUmmie Reef.


Now, which one of you DUmmies wants to put your money where your mouth is and be the seed dead DUmmie that gets the Great Dummie Reef ball rolling?

[BlueStateSaint]

Do not fret, DUmmies!  I have a simple plan to recreate the maybe/maybe not dead reef:

1. All DUmmies commit suicide en mass

2. DUmmie bodies get dumped into a huge pile out in the ocean somewhere

3. DUmmie meat gets picked clean until nothing but a huge pile of DUmmie bones remains.

4. DUmmie bones become anchor material for new coral reef!!


We can call it the Great DUmmie Reef.


Now, which one of you DUmmies wants to put your money where your mouth is and be the seed dead DUmmie that gets the Great Dummie Reef ball rolling?

It would attract a lot of really stupid fish.

[SVPete]

It would attract a lot of really stupid fish.

H-5 for a ! Before that there would be a severe drop in crab and lobster IQ, IYKWIM.

[franksolich]

In reality, all liberal/DUmmie/democrat tactics are counterproductive as far as I am concerned.  If a liberal/democrat is professing concerned about something, I figure the concern is dishonest in nature and a ridiculous attempt to injure civilized decency.  That way, I have no problem with anything to do with you DUmmies.

My sentiments exactly, but you said it better than I could.

[sharkhawk]

The best part is nobody even questions the 25 million year old great barrier reef meme.  The truth is the reef is approximately 8,000 years old, about the same age as the Great Lakes.  DUmmies and the AGW people like to claim that the earth is a static place that never changes, but anything currently on earth is just a blip in the earths life cycle.

[Adam Wood]

The best part is nobody even questions the 25 million year old great barrier reef meme.  The truth is the reef is approximately 8,000 years old, about the same age as the Great Lakes.  DUmmies and the AGW people like to claim that the earth is a static place that never changes, but anything currently on earth is just a blip in the earths life cycle.

Indeed.  The Pristine-Earthers are pretty astounding in their stubborn ignorance.  They're fully convinced that the earth had perfectly clean air and perfectly clean water from the moment it was formed until sometime in the late nineteenth century when an evil capitalist farted and that ruined everything.

[Karin]

I had one bulb (a nightlight even) that was still incandescent, and it seems that single bulb killed the ENTIRE reef.

It was me.  I use only incandescents.  In collusion with Frank, whom I believe does so too. 

[BlueStateSaint]

It was me.  I use only incandescents.  In collusion with Frank, whom I believe does so too.

I've got a few LED bulbs.  Two of them are outside, and one of them has the bulb broken off--but the LED inside still burns brightly.  The other one is a green bulb, for being veteran-friendly (there's a few houses with green bulbs on exterior lights in my 'hood).