The combination of tweet, icon and bio here is kind of amazing.https://twitter.com/The_Miss_Greer/status/563113773167161344 …
@simplic10 That hourglass/void icon, forget the name of it, shows up in the damndest places.
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@simplic10 The extinction stuff is based on very shoddy, unexamined math. It's essentially urban legend at this point. -
@St_Rev I wasn't endorsing, but feel free to elaborate! Suspect that's what "Miss Greer" was trying to say with it though. -
@simplic10 Put it this way: extinction counts are based on astronomically less data and shoddier models than, say, climate change. -
@simplic10 It's not like they send people out to count species and radio in when they can't find one. There are some primitive models... -
@simplic10 ...for species count as a function of ecosystem land area, based largely on island studies. They use the models to estimate... -
@simplic10 ...extinctions when, say, rainforest gets cut back. But that's not what the model is designed to predict. -
@St_Rev I have also heard there is um inflation in literal number of species to create apparent rarity - 1 more reply
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