Just Name One - Marine Extinctions
BBC News - World's oceans in 'shocking' decline
Professor Rogers told BBC News.
"We've still got most of the world's biodiversity, but the actual rate of extinction is much higher [than in past events] - and what we face is certainly a globally significant extinction event."
Name one, just one, marine species that has gone extinct this century.
I can't find one, there are 1,450 marine species on the IUCN Red List Criteria (2007) so maybe one or two have gone phut that I have failed to spot but if lots were going I think I would be able to find some names, but I can't find one.
But we are told there is an unprecedented extinction event happening right now and action is needed.
Don't ask for evidence, time is too short for that.
Comments
Chinese river dolphin
Reply - (The Chinese River Dolphin - Baiji was a freshwater mammal, not marine, not oceanic.)
Posted by: chris strange | June 20, 2011 6:48 PM
Do you know if there is a peer-reviewed Report to cover this or do we just have yet another alarmist press release? If the latter then why shouldn't I ignore it just as an unsupported opinion?
(I know. I know. Peer review is almost as useless as a chocolate tea pot but at least someone else has looked at it - probably).
Posted by: Alan Bates | June 21, 2011 5:57 PM
Do you know if there is a peer-reviewed Report to cover this or do we just have yet another alarmist press release? If the latter then why shouldn't I ignore it just as an unsupported opinion?
(I know. I know. Peer review is almost as useless as a chocolate tea pot but at least someone else has looked at it - probably).
Posted by: Alan Bates | June 21, 2011 5:58 PM