Small brown rat becomes first mammal to go extinct due to man-made climate change

[DigitalDrifter]

Mighty Mouse, is turning over in his grave.

Australian mammal becomes first to go extinct due to climate change - CNN

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(CNN)A small brown rat which lived on a tiny island off northern Australia is the world's first mammal known to have become extinct due to "human-induced climate change," the government says.

The Bramble Cay melomys inhabited a small coral island on the Great Barrier Reef, measuring about five hectares (12 acres) and located in the Torres Strait, between Queensland state and Papua New Guinea.
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[justoffal]

Mighty Mouse, is turning over in his grave.

Australian mammal becomes first to go extinct due to climate change - CNN

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(CNN)A small brown rat which lived on a tiny island off northern Australia is the world's first mammal known to have become extinct due to "human-induced climate change," the government says.

The Bramble Cay melomys inhabited a small coral island on the Great Barrier Reef, measuring about five hectares (12 acres) and located in the Torres Strait, between Queensland state and Papua New Guinea.
/QUOTE]

Yeah them and the Dodo bird dude...
Seriously? What a massive crock of shit.

Jo

 

[Erinwltr]

Mighty Mouse, is turning over in his grave.

Australian mammal becomes first to go extinct due to climate change - CNN

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(CNN)A small brown rat which lived on a tiny island off northern Australia is the world's first mammal known to have become extinct due to "human-induced climate change," the government says.

The Bramble Cay melomys inhabited a small coral island on the Great Barrier Reef, measuring about five hectares (12 acres) and located in the Torres Strait, between Queensland state and Papua New Guinea.
/QUOTE]

Yeah them and the Dodo bird dude...
Seriously? What a massive crock of shit.

Jo

What does the Dodo birds extinction have to do with modern day climate change and the extinction of the Bramble Cay melomy?

Dodo - Wikipedia

 

[night_son]

Mighty Mouse, is turning over in his grave.

Australian mammal becomes first to go extinct due to climate change - CNN

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(CNN)A small brown rat which lived on a tiny island off northern Australia is the world's first mammal known to have become extinct due to "human-induced climate change," the government says.

The Bramble Cay melomys inhabited a small coral island on the Great Barrier Reef, measuring about five hectares (12 acres) and located in the Torres Strait, between Queensland state and Papua New Guinea.
/QUOTE]

I hear they're great on the grill with chunks of squash, pineapple and sweet onions.

 

[Claudette]

The dodo bird was hunted to extinction and I doubt this rat died out due to climate change.

Probably loads of them out there that no one sees.

Leave it to CNN to publish a load of horse shit.

 

[justoffal]

Mighty Mouse, is turning over in his grave.

Australian mammal becomes first to go extinct due to climate change - CNN

[
(CNN)A small brown rat which lived on a tiny island off northern Australia is the world's first mammal known to have become extinct due to "human-induced climate change," the government says.

The Bramble Cay melomys inhabited a small coral island on the Great Barrier Reef, measuring about five hectares (12 acres) and located in the Torres Strait, between Queensland state and Papua New Guinea.
/QUOTE]

Yeah them and the Dodo bird dude...
Seriously? What a massive crock of shit.

Jo

What does the Dodo birds extinction have to do with modern day climate change and the extinction of the Bramble Cay melomy?

Dodo - Wikipedia

They're both extinct.

Jo

 

[mudwhistle]

Leave it to CNN to lament the end of a species that spreads filth and disease everywhere it goes......just like CNN.

 

[justoffal]

Leave it to CNN to lament the end of a species that spreads filth and disease everywhere it goes......just like CNN.

Also....the vacuous attempt to blame it on
AGW....as if this was the very first landlocked Special extinction.

Jo

 

[justoffal]

The dodo bird was hunted to extinction and I doubt this rat died out due to climate change.

Probably loads of them out there that no one sees.

Leave it to CNN to publish a load of horse shit.

Um no...it's actually a load of rat shit.

I guess the new definition of extinction doesn't mean none. It actually means very few and not expected to survive.



Jo

 

[justoffal]

The dodo bird was hunted to extinction and I doubt this rat died out due to climate change.

Probably loads of them out there that no one sees.

Leave it to CNN to publish a load of horse shit.

Also they're missing the whole point of species. That's what species do....that is their function....they go extinct.

Jo

 

[Claudette]

The dodo bird was hunted to extinction and I doubt this rat died out due to climate change.

Probably loads of them out there that no one sees.

Leave it to CNN to publish a load of horse shit.

Also they're missing the whole point of species. That's what species do....that is their function....they go extinct.

Jo

Yup and loads have gone extinct in the last hundred years. Many more will as well.

 

[Meathead]

(CNN)A small brown rat

Mexicans are going extinct?! I expect this is a scam to stop the wall.

 

[gipper]

Are there still Americans believing in the Holy Church of AGW? Even after this record breaking winter.

I guess the old saying is true...who are you going to trust? Me or your lying eyes.

 

[Erinwltr]

Mighty Mouse, is turning over in his grave.

Australian mammal becomes first to go extinct due to climate change - CNN

[
(CNN)A small brown rat which lived on a tiny island off northern Australia is the world's first mammal known to have become extinct due to "human-induced climate change," the government says.

The Bramble Cay melomys inhabited a small coral island on the Great Barrier Reef, measuring about five hectares (12 acres) and located in the Torres Strait, between Queensland state and Papua New Guinea.
/QUOTE]

Yeah them and the Dodo bird dude...
Seriously? What a massive crock of shit.

Jo

What does the Dodo birds extinction have to do with modern day climate change and the extinction of the Bramble Cay melomy?

Dodo - Wikipedia

They're both extinct.

Jo

For two completely different reasons.

 

[gtopa1]

The Bottom Line:

There are no longer any Bramble Cay melomys living on Bramble Cay. Their extirpation was almost certainly caused by environmental degradation resulting from the very nature of Bramble Cay as a “geologically temporary..[island]..of considerable instability, which may respond dramatically to fluctuations in [its] environment”, with a maximum elevation of 3 meters (~ 10 feet), made of constantly shifting sand that collects around a small rocky outcrop surrounded by a shallow reef. The area of the cay that supports vegetation, the main source of shelter and food for the melomys, has been shrinking since 1998, down to less than 10% of the 1998 area in 2014.

The main contributing factor to this degradation is the success of other species, primarily the Green Turtle and various sea birds, both of which use the island for nesting (and roosting) which resulted in increasing disturbance and destruction of the vegetation required by the melomys for survival.

Bramble Cay suffered at least one (Spring 2014) or more (or a series of) weather events that inundated the island (maybe repeatedly), that possibly would have reduced the melomys population below a sustainable level, both directly and through destruction of vegetation, their primary food source, however, it is doubtful that there were in fact any remaining melomys at that late date. No melomys had been official recorded on Bramble since 2004.

The official cause — climate change – is speculative and partially based on predictions of future sea level rise and future increased storminess and intensity of storms.

From the Scientific Urban Legend Department: “The little Bramble Cay melomys is likely the first mammal claimed by man-made climate change”

The island is still there. Maybe shoulda killed the green turtles for stew. Then the rats might have survived.

Greg

 

[Marion Morrison]

In before they find millions of them out in the bush.

 

[tyroneweaver]

In before they find millions of them out in the bush.

A friend of mine got lost in the bush. Took em 2 days to find him. He was never the same. Came back to America and shot himself.

 

[skookerasbil]

Nobody cares about rats going extinct. If they do, they've never been to NYC.

 

[DigitalDrifter]

Are they sure it was climate change ?
Do they know the whereabouts of the Pied Piper ?

 

[Rustic]

Mighty Mouse, is turning over in his grave.

Australian mammal becomes first to go extinct due to climate change - CNN

[
(CNN)A small brown rat which lived on a tiny island off northern Australia is the world's first mammal known to have become extinct due to "human-induced climate change," the government says.

The Bramble Cay melomys inhabited a small coral island on the Great Barrier Reef, measuring about five hectares (12 acres) and located in the Torres Strait, between Queensland state and Papua New Guinea.
/QUOTE]