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The horrifying price we pay for not signing the Kyoto treaty
**Posted by Phineas
Curse that George W. Bush (and Bill Clinton) and those global-warming skeptics! Thanks to their betrayal of Mother Gaea, the planet is warming climate is changing and we are faced with the inevitable price of their folly:
Mutant sharks!!! (1)
No, really:
Scientists said on Tuesday that they had discovered the world’s first hybrid sharks in Australian waters, a potential sign the predators were adapting to cope with climate change.
The mating of the local Australian black-tip shark with its global counterpart, the common black-tip, was an unprecedented discovery with implications for the entire shark world, said lead researcher Jess Morgan.
“It’s very surprising because no one’s ever seen shark hybrids before, this is not a common occurrence by any stretch of the imagination,” Morgan, from the University of Queensland, told AFP.
“This is evolution in action.”
Here we go again with more leading propaganda for the climate-alarmist cause: “potential,” a weasel word meant to make us think that something significant may be happening, and that it could be linked to dangerous man-caused climate change, so we need to do something NOW! to stop it. That “something” inevitably requiring economy and liberty-killing government regulation and taxation and massive transnational bureaucracy.
The quoted section is also misleading because it relies on a fallacy: if we’ve never seen something before, it must never have happened before, leaving us with the impression that it must be significant — in this case, for the alarmist cause.
It’s far more likely, in my non-scientific educated layman’s opinion, that natural cycles of climate change lead one shark into the territory of another, closely related species and, when the two met and being in the mood for love, Nature took her course. I’d bet it’s happened countless times before in the history of life on Earth. It may even have been an accident, such as an escape from a fishing net. While the incident itself may be biologically significant and worthy of investigation on its own, to broadly hint that it’s likely the result of man-caused climate change while presenting no evidence of linkage is just Green propaganda, a scare tactic, with journalist Amy Coopes as either the propagandist or the willing tool.
Via James Delingpole, whose column is a hilarious must-read.
Footnote:
(1) Anyone who’s familiar with the Arduin roleplaying game knows what’s coming: exploding hydrogen-filled Air Sharks! (Hey, if the alarmists can make lousy projections based on no facts or false facts, so can I.)
UPDATE: More at Pirate’s Cove.
(Crossposted at Public Secrets)
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Oh my God! Hybrid sharks! The horror! Oh wait! They adapted! Does that mean sharks aren’t going to become extinct because of “global warming”? This is not what “global warming” alarmists predicted. They predicted mass extinction of species if we didn’t stop using all petroleum products immediately.
I mean, the alarmist used recent droughts as proof that “global warming” was here and destroying the Earth. Using the “global warming” alarmists own methods of reasoning, we can only conclude that hybrid sharks are proof positive that “global warming” will not result in mass extinctions.
….we must immediately ramp up a taxpayer funded “just say no” campaign for sharks.
Otherwise, can Godzilla be far behind??
Of course, the discovery proves the *opposite* of their contention. The warm-water shark is moving into cold water. In order for their claim to hold merit, the cold-water shark would have to be hybridizing to survive in warmer waters. The warm water shark is *already* equipped to survive in hotter ocean water.
Aside from the hysterical apocalyptic warnings from the
global warmingclimate change crowd, the evolution-is-everything crowd is having an orgasm over this “evolution in action” that HAS NEVER BEEN SEEN!. No it’s not, it’s a routine example of cross-breeding, only differing from cross breeding of plants by the animal form involved.Forget the sharks, what about my cousins, the Sami and the Finns?
Though they are some of the whitest people in the world, up to a quarter of their genetic heritage is Asian. What climate disaster caused that?
Oh the horror! Its enough to turn my blue eyes even bluer.
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Quick! Set up a 100,000 person Federal Agency–The Transmutated Shark Agency–to handle the problem–stat! All GS-16 democratic Gubmint lifetime employees who will shoot any sharks noted walking along the beaches on their fins.
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The Airport TSA will be the model for this new taxpayer funded agency. And train them not to mistakenly shoot beachgoers drinking Landshark beers.
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Rocketman
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Even more amusing is the strong inference in the article that the reason these sharks cross-mated was in order to enhance survivability.
Right, I’m sure that was explicitly intentional.
Bob The Shark: Hey baby, nice set of gills you have there! I was just thinking that my kids would have a much better quality of life in this neighborhood. Whaddaya say we slip off to my place where I can show you my — um, er — etchings, yeah, that’s it, my etchings!
The AGW folks have finally jumped the shark! (Or is that the other way around?)
Evolution indeed! We just saw a shark evolve into a …shark!
Gosh, I didn’t know that all one had to do to prove evolution is to mate a donkey and a horse and make a mule. It so simple. It is so wrong.
These idiots are the ones who are using “belief in evolution” as a litmus test.
Meanwhile in his secret underground lair, Dr. Evil screeches, “I want frickin’ hybrid sharks with frickin’ laser beams attached to their frickin’ heads. Is that too much too ask?”
Hmmmm.
Black-tipped sharks mate with … black-tipped sharks.
The world ends soon!! News at 11!!
…maybe it was just horny?
It’s time for man to evolve and stop the growth of Gubment.
This is less exciting than learning a Great Dane and an Irish Wolfhound had mated and had pups.
When I was in college, part of defining two animals as different species was that they could not produce offspring. The correct part of this news is that a “hybrid” has been seen. A mule is a hybrid – NOT an evolutionary step.
Meanwhile the sharks swam to avoid the alarm, hoping to dine on some Al arm. I’m waiting for word that this is clear evidence that the sharks have come to the conclusion that they must adapt, based on their own analysis of the science.
@markj – My coffee just came out through my nose…Thanks
Women and minorities hardest hit?
No, PE, unbelievers have been/are.
Re-education camps are in the works even as we comment…
This just in: a penguin laid an egg. Scientists suspect climate change is the reason.
Further update: a polar bear briefly slipped in some slush. Scientists suspect climate change is the reason.
Even further update: the sun rose once again. Scientists suspect climate change is the reason.
Final update: some scientists are overpaid, under-skilled morons that need to put their political agenda aside and focus on facts. Clearly, though, climate change is the reason.