Bugs: The Forgotten Victims of Climate Change

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It takes more than fifty years for humans to change the earths temperature by .1 degrees fahrenheit. Which show that humans are an insignificant part of this so-called "global warming", in the seventies humans were causing another ice age, today we're melting the ice caps. I wish they would make up their mind, become unified and have 100's of years of data to back it, but they don't, all they have is corrupted data that only a handful of sciectist agree with and call it fact. There are more than 12,000 scientist world wide who say global warming is crock. I'll stick with those guys, and you keep trying to blow smoke about how we're killing the planet.

Dustin Murphy of OH 1:43PM May 27, 2010

Of course theres climate change..the climate is changing every day....sometimes its cold somtimes its hot. there is no proof that humans are causing the climate to change. it was changing even before we got here...duh. so lets call this what it really is. Pollution. Whether or not we are causing the climate to change we should cut down on pollution as mush as possible anyway!!!!!

fd of MT 3:25PM January 04, 2010

Introducing species to a new environment has been done successfully. African dung beetles were introduced to the Australian cattle ranges to assist with the overwhelming spread of cow crap that wasn't decomposing fast enough and causing numerous problems. They haven't threatened any other species and have thrived there quite well. Amazingly, they assisted with feeding a large aray of other animals that were at threat. But if you think an asteroid is just going to come and wipe the slate clean sometime soon, you're wrong. Granted, the planet does have a unique way to clean and repair itself as history shows (ie ice age, pole reversal, super storms, floods, etc.) that doesn't mean that humans wont find a threat to themselves. We aren't immune. We will die. Ultimately, whether by our own hand or something that good old mother Earth decides, she will repair herself and we will realize it only when it's too late that we had a hand in it. We're too beauracratic to know when to stop. So don't think that we can just continue to mess things up without consequence. Our entire ecosystem is designed around chain reactions and for the first time, one species is contributing to a planet-wide reaction that will ultimately spell our own demise.

Egyptian Lion of ID 4:47PM December 25, 2009

If we thought that a species had the potential to become invasive, meaning it might become harmful where it was introduced, we would not want to consider that species as a candidate for managed relocation

Jasen hao 8:43AM November 03, 2009

Stop this myopic tinkering - you have no freakin' clue what you're doing.. Stuff either adapts or becomes extinct - other stuff evolves. That's the way its always been during periods of climate change, plagues, droughts or asteroid strikes. Some stuff makes it - some doesn't. When that "BIG" space rock hits the slate is wiped clean anyway. Get a new worry and stop trying to "save the planet".

R.L. Schaefer of CA 10:53PM October 27, 2009