Wait, there’s no such thing as a Snail Darter?

American Thinker-

By Mike McDaniel

Species are becoming extinct! It’s a crisis competing for all manner of other crises, though at the moment the “Climate Crisis,” AKA “Climate Change,” is winning the publicity and funding war. Keeping in mind much of the literature on the subject—trust the science—is very much in the hysterical category, consider this:

How many species have gone extinct? Prior to humans becoming a primary contributor to extinctions at the dawn of the Holocene some 12,000 years ago, scientists called the rate of species extinction, the background extinction rate, and estimated to be between 0.01 to 0.1 extinctions per million species per year. It’s also estimated that humans have increased this rate by between 1,000 to 10,000 times. Under the assumption there are currently 8.75 million species on this planet, this means that the current estimate of annual species lost to extinction ranges from 87.5 to 8,750 per year!

Keep in mind those alarming (!) numbers include huge numbers of microorganisms, which with insects, make up most known species. One can always tell real science by the number of exclamation marks used to pump up “facts.” Actually, species have been going extinct, mutating and evolving for far longer than the advent of man, though contemporary science is quite certain such extinction has been greatly increased by man and in alignment with Climate Change predictions, we’ll be doomed ten years from now…or ten years later…or—and they really mean it this time—ten years after that! more here