Human Extinction Within 100 Years Warns Scientist
 

"A top New Zealand researcher is using a prestigious award ceremony in Christchurch to warn that humans face extinction by the end of the century.

Professor Peter Barrett will be presented with the Marsden Medal tonight for his 40-year contribution to Antarctic research, latterly focusing on climate change.

The director of Victoria University's Antarctic Research Centre expects to use his acceptance speech to warn climate change was a major threat to the planet.

"After 40 years, I'm part of a huge community of scientists who have become alarmed with our discovery, that we know from our knowledge of the ancient past, that if we continue our present growth path, we are facing extinction," Barrett said. "Not in millions of years, or even millennia, but by the end of this century." Barrett won the award ? designed to mark lifetime achievement in the sciences ? for his research into Antarctica, which began with helping prove New Zealand was once part of the Gondwanaland supercontinent."



http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3099128a10,00.html

As long as I get to live out most of my life in comfort why should I care?

- Joe Sixpack

lets stop pretending: who gives a shit!!

Sad but true :(

Sad but true...........

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and what are YOU doing to help this?

bullshit

So you don't care about your children ?

true

no kidding. who do you know that will be around in 100 years?

My kids aren't going to live to be 120 years old

That gets me AND my kid out before then and probably grandchildren too :)

Nothing to see here, move along in your humvees and suvs.

I'll be suprised if we last another 10 :1orglaugh

Not having children.

:1orglaugh :1orglaugh

Yes I am sure a climate change will kill off all of the humans on earth just like the climate change of the last ice age did 10,000 years ago.

-_-

Extinction? A moon base would solve the Earth climate problems and a Mars base would solve any extinction threat. Humans are less than 100 years from colonizing other planets. Just shows how smart of a "scientist" this guy is. Humans wont be extinct

We will find a way to survive we always do...

cool i hope im around to see that

Species die all the time. Homo Sapiens aren't different. Our day will come and we'll be a mere footnote in the history of this planet.

I believe it.

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Nice sig^^

Going to suck for your grandkids, but hey who cares about them right?

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We won't colonize the moon or Mars in 100 years. Just to teraform Mars would take hundreds if not 1000's of years. we can't even get 3 peole to mars let alone MILLIONS. You think that's going to change much in 100 years? We've had a space program for 45 years and it's not much advanced now than it was 45 years ago. Helll we havent even back to to moon in 30 years.

100 yrs well I will be dead by then lol

Maybe this scientist forgot to read oil is drying up much faster than that.