Monarch butterfly populations in U.S. west are down an order of magnitude

Re:Monarch butterfly populations in U.S. west are down an or... by aw3c2 on Sunday December 02, 2018 @07:58AM (#18582130)

You are posting hyperbole, millions of years is a bad measure to tell people that human influence is affecting. There is no equilibrium either, nature changes a lot. Look at temperature history, big changes happened again and again. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_temperature_record#/med...

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Re:Monarch butterfly populations in U.S. west are down an or... by filoeleven on Sunday December 02, 2018 @10:19AM (#18582639)

When people say “the climate has changed before,” these are the kinds of changes they are talking about. https://xkcd.com/1732/

You’re right, there is no equilibrium. But there is a limit to how rapidly any system can handle changes while remaining recognizable as the same system.

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Re:Monarch butterfly populations in U.S. west are down an or... by campercoder on Sunday December 02, 2018 @10:47AM (#18582774)

Yup, it's about the rate of change. Sucking 10s of millions of years worth of sequestered carbon out of the ground and injecting into the atmosphere over just 100 years is complete and utter suicide. For all living things on our planet.

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