{"id":233168,"date":"2022-12-09T20:14:15","date_gmt":"2022-12-09T19:14:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=233168"},"modified":"2022-12-09T20:14:22","modified_gmt":"2022-12-09T19:14:22","slug":"extinction-hype-and-dubious-biodiversity-cop15-in-montreal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=233168","title":{"rendered":"Extinction Hype and Dubious Biodiversity COP15 in Montreal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Headlines Claim, But Details Deny<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n

The advertising proverb says it all: \u201cThe large print giveth, and the small print taketh away.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unfortunately, climate science is rife with this. A research announcement is released and the same text appears in media articles everywhere, the only difference being who can attach the scariest headline. One list of things claimed to be caused by global warming numbers 883, including many head scratchers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


http:\/\/www.numberwatch.co.uk\/warmlist.htm<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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For example: species extinctions.<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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WWF claims \u201cThe rapid loss of species we are seeing today is estimated by experts to be between 1,000 and 10,000 times higher than the natural extinction rate. MSNBC laments the \u201cfact\u201d that 100,000 species of flora and fauna will no longer be with us by next Christmas. And yet, WWF also estimates the number of identified unique species to be between 1.4 to 1.8 million, an uncertainty of 400,000. As someone said, \u201cAnytime extinctions are claimed, ask for the names.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Note from California Academy of Sciences:<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

How many species<\/strong> on Earth?  Eight million, seven hundred thousand species! (Give or take 1.3 million.)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

That is a new, estimated total number of species on Earth\u2014the most precise calculation ever offered\u2014with 6.5 million species found on land and 2.2 million dwelling in the ocean depths.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Until now,<\/strong> the number of species on Earth was said to fall somewhere within the large range of 3 and 100 million.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The new study, published yesterday in the open access journal PLoS Biology, says a staggering 86% of all species on land and 91% of those in the seas have yet to be discovered<\/strong>, described and catalogued.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The debunking is done in detail here:  Plenty of Wiggle Room in Scientific Certainty<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

They know that\u00a099.9% of all species that ever existed on Earth are now extinct.<\/strong>\u00a0They know that in the last 540 million years there have been\u00a0five events in which more than half of the planet\u2019s \u201canimal genera\u201d have died off.<\/strong>\u00a0(They have not been able to link all of these events to the activities of Big Oil yet, but they\u2019re working on it.) They know we are in the\u00a0midst of Sixth Great Mass Extinction<\/strong>\u00a0that the \u201cexperts\u201d say is more destructive that the Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction that wiped out the dinosaurs.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Chris D Thomas Professor of Evolutionary Biology, University of York writes in the Conversation New species are coming into existence faster than ever thanks to humans.<\/strong><\/a> Excerpts below in italics with my bolds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Animals and plants are seemingly disappearing faster<\/strong> than at any time since the dinosaurs died out, 66m years ago. The death knell tolls for life on Earth. Rhinos will soon be gone unless we defend them, Mexico\u2019s final few Vaquita porpoises are drowning in fishing nets, and in America, Franklin trees survive only in parks and gardens.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yet the survivors are taking advantage of new opportunities created by humans. Many are spreading into new parts of the world, adapting to new conditions, and even evolving into new species. In some respects, diversity is actually increasing in the human epoch<\/strong>, the Anthropocene. It is these biological gains that I contemplate in a new book, Inheritors of the Earth: How Nature is Thriving in an Age of Extinction, in which I argue that it is no longer credible for us to take a loss-only view<\/strong> of the world\u2019s biodiversity.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Entirely new species<\/strong> have even come into existence. The \u201capple fly\u201d has evolved in North America, thanks to European colonials bringing fruit trees to the New World. And house sparrows mated with Mediterranean \u201cSpanish\u201d sparrows somewhere on an Italian farm. Their descendants represent a brand new species, the Italian sparrow. Life on Earth is no longer the same as it was before humans arrived on the scene.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is no doubt that the rate at which species are dying out is very high, and\u00a0we could well be in for a \u201cBig Sixth\u201d mass extinction<\/strong>. This represents a loss of biological diversity. Yet, we also know that the Big Five\u00a0mass extinctions of the past<\/strong>\u00a0half billion years ultimately\u00a0led to increases in diversity<\/strong>. Could this happen again? It seems so, because the current rate at which new animals and plants (such as the apple fly, the Italian sparrow and Oxford ragwort) are coming into existence is unusually high \u2013 and it may be the highest ever.\u00a0We are already on the verge of Genesis Number Six<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 a million or so years from now, the world could end up supporting more species, not fewer, as a consequence of the evolution of Homo sapiens.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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China Pra<\/strong>cticing Sun Tzu\u2019s Art of War?<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Beyond the exaggeration and fear-mongering featured in all these UN gatherings, there are particular reasons to be skeptical of this Biodiversity COP15 in Montreal.  For one thing, it serves as a platform for Virtue-Signaler-in-Chief, Justin Trudeau, to burnish his social justice warrior creds.  And for another thing, there\u2019s a devious collaboration with China\u2019s despot.  Terry Glavin explains in his National Post article Trudeau Liberals too eager to buy into China\u2019s green \u2018co-operation\u2019.<\/strong><\/a> Excerpts in italics with my bolds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

No country has cooperated with China on environmental issues
more enthusiastically and obsequiously than Canada<\/mark><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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China\u2019s President Xi Jinping<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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As at least 10,000 delegates and observers from more than 190 countries<\/strong> gather in Montreal for the Convention of the Parties\u2019 biodiversity summit this week, it\u2019s difficult not to be dreary about the summit\u2019s prospects for reversing the alarming trends that continue to push the earth\u2019s animal and plant species over extinction\u2019s cliff edge.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s not all bad news. But it\u2019s pretty bad. And with Beijing as the co-host with Canada, it\u2019s hard not to be at least a bit cynical about the whole thing.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The conference in Montreal was supposed to be convened two years ago in Kunming, China,<\/strong> but COVID-19 got in the way, so now the event is being held in Canada owing to the Trudeau government\u2019s decision to oblige the Chinese. In the lead-up to Kunming, the United Nations\u2019 Global Biodiversity Outlook<\/strong> prepared a report card on how the world had progressed by then on the 20 biodiversity targets set 10 years earlier when the parties met in Aichi, Japan. It\u2019s pretty grim reading.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of the 20 Aichi targets, none were met.<\/strong> Of the 60 \u201celements\u201d within the targets, only seven were achieved and 13 registered no progress at all. The UN couldn\u2019t figure out what was going on with a couple elements, but there was progress in 38 elements.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Numerical analyses<\/strong> don\u2019t illuminate much on a global scale, but that\u2019s the scale the COP15 gathering in Montreal is dealing with. The rate of global deforestation had slowed by a third over that decade, but overfishing has accelerated, and wetlands continued to vanish. Still, harmful invasive species were eradicated from islands in 200 projects. Also to the good:<\/strong> 44 per cent of the critical areas of the world identified as particularly rich in species diversity ended up with some degree of protection, up from 29 per cent identified at the Aichi gathering.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It doesn\u2019t help to be cynical about these things but Beijing is, after all, in the wheelhouse here.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The hollowest banality you\u2019ll hear when it comes to China<\/strong> is the one about how, sure, the Chinese Communist Party might be a world-devouring rogue state<\/strong> that we have to protect ourselves from, but gosh, we do have to get along<\/strong> with Chinese strongman Xi Jinping when it comes to big-picture challenges like the impact of climate change on human well-being and global biodiversity.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The way that platitude<\/strong> is put in Ottawa\u2019s recently-unveiled Indo-Pacific Strategy:<\/strong> China may well be \u201can increasingly disruptive global power,\u201d but \u201cChina\u2019s sheer size and influence makes co-operation necessary to address some of the world\u2019s existential pressures, such as climate change and biodiversity loss, global health and nuclear proliferation.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

And fair enough. It makes sense. But the thing is, we\u2019ve been co-operating like crazy already<\/strong>, all along. No country has co-operated with China on environmental issues more enthusiastically and obsequiously than Canada. How\u2019s that been working out?<\/strong> For all its much-lauded investments in electric cars and solar panels, China had given the green light to 8.63 gigawatts (GW) of coal-fired power in the first quarter of this year. China now emits more greenhouse gases than the entire developed-world output, combined.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hindsight is 20\/20, as they say, but it\u2019s hard to put your finger on a folly<\/strong> more obvious now than the 1981 decision by Pierre Trudeau\u2019s government<\/strong> to rejig the Canadian International Development Agency\u2019s eligibility requirements so as to allow China to qualify as a foreign-aid recipient.<\/strong> Within a year, CIDA\u2019s role in China was fashioned to suit the purposes of the trade lobby, and that\u2019s how CIDA was run in China until the agency was folded into Global Affairs in 2013.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

China has used its \u201cdeveloping country\u201d pretensions to evade a variety of the multilateral environmental and climate change obligations<\/strong>\u00a0that burden \u201cFirst World\u201d countries. The result has been that in the existential challenge of global warming, you\u2019d never know it but the greenhouse gas output from Europe and North America have pretty much flatlined over the past quarter of a century, while China\u2019s output has quadrupled.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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LULUCF refers to emissions from land use and forestry, which can be in addition or subtraction.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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China has been at the forefront of assertions that it is the developed economies\u2019 job to bear the greater costs of climate change mitigation, owing to the legacy of the Industrial Revolution. There\u2019s a case to be made for that, but according to the University of Oxford\u2019s Our World in Data project, the volume of carbon dioxide China has pumped into the atmosphere over the past eight years exceeds the two-century output of the United Kingdom, where the Industrial Revolution began.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

So perhaps, yes, \u201cChina\u2019s sheer size and influence makes co-operation necessary,\u201d but Canada has never shied away from co-operating. Canada never stopped co-operating, in just the way Beijing wanted,<\/strong> long after CIDA was folded up.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Conclusion<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Many know of the Latin phrase \u201ccaveat emptor,\u201d meaning \u201cLet the buyer beware\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When it comes to UN climate science, remember also \u201ccaveat lector\u201d\u2013\u201dLet the reader beware\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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via Science Matters<\/mark><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

December 8, 2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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