[MD] Clouds

[Case]

[Platt]
The fate of every living thing? The apocalypse? Hard to tell if it's the
Case we all know and love or Jerry Falwell. 

[Case]
Ecologists are currently documenting mass extinctions. Does this mean
everything will die? Probably not and if huddling around the camp fire and
eating berries is your cup of tea you are going to love the Brave New World.
But hey we have a few more good years in us. We can let the grandkids deal
with it...

I guess the big difference I would have with Falwell I don't see any Second
Coming that will save all the good folks in the end.

Feeling free to supply counter quotes from the Limbaugh Institute but here
is just a sample of evidence that you are ignoring. Let me know if you need
more but I suggest you have to be in an active state of denial to discount
this.


"A 1998 survey by the American Museum of Natural History found that 70% of
biologists view the present era as part of a mass extinction event, possibly
one of the fastest ever. Some, such as E. O. Wilson of Harvard University,
predict that man's destruction of the biosphere could cause the extinction
of one-half of all species in the next 100 years."
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extinction_event

"There is virtual unanimity among scientists that we have entered a period
of mass extinction not seen since the age of the dinosaurs, an emerging
global crisis that could have disastrous effects on our future food
supplies, our search for new medicines, and on the water we drink and the
air we breathe. Estimates vary, but extinction is figured by experts to be
taking place between 100 to 1,000 times higher than natural "background"
extinction."
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http://archives.cnn.com/2002/TECH/science/08/23/green.century.mass.extinctio
n/index.html

" Leading environmental scientist Professor Norman Myers says the Earth is
experiencing its "Sixth Extinction." Scientists forecast that up to five
million species will be lost this century. "We are well into the opening
phase of a mass extinction of species. There are about 10 million species on
earth. If we carry on as we are, we could lose half of all those 10 million
species," Myers said."
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http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Largest_mass_extinction_in_65_million_years_unde
rway,_scientists_say