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When I was a kid there were less than 15,000 polar bears, now only 40,000 remain.....
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Worldwide animal populations have dropped by over 70% in the past 50 years. |
According to Scott Adams, any significant data are false. Were polar bears under or over reported one time or another? Worldwide animal populations includes the subterranean biosphere.
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ScienceAlert
Scientists Reveal a Massive Biosphere of Life Hidden Under Earth's ...
In a preview of results from an epic 10-year collaboration by over 1,000 scientists, Lloyd and fellow researchers with the Deep Carbon Observatory (DCO) estimate the deep biosphere - the zone of life under Earth's surface - occupies a volume of between 2 to 2.3 billion cubic kilometres (0.48 to 0.55 billion cubic miles).
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Earth's Mysterious 'Deep Biosphere' Is Home to Millions of Undiscovered ...
In a statement that dubs Earth's deep biosphere a "subterranean Galapagos" waiting to be ... the record for deepest-known life so far is about 3 miles (5 km) below the continental subsurface and 6 ...
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Yesterday, 07:37 PM
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According to Scott Adams, any significant data are false.
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Then how do we know if anything is actually true? A 73% decline that can't be trusted would have to have a huge margin of error.
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Worldwide animal populations includes the subterranean biosphere.
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Sorry for not being more specific. The more-than-70% decline I mentioned is from monitored vertebrate animal life.
https://www.worldwildlife.org/press-...ystem-in-peril
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"The figures don't lie, but liars do figure".
Ants are animals, and I would be horrified to learn that the current number of them are a mere fraction of how many there used to be.
Mosquitos are animals too, and we're told they are proliferating.
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Then how do we know if anything is actually true?
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Sorry for not being more specific.
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I was making a point, not just picking on you. Most likely it was a subtle point about nuance. Sorry.
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