Fires, floods and extreme weather will
imperil a third of all life on land in
the next 60 years
New York Post,
by
Ben Cost
Original Article
Posted By: Ida Lou Pino,
4/24/2026 11:41:46 AM
This forecast does not look good. Archaeologists might need to locate Noah’s lost ark sooner than we think. By 2085, over a third of all land animals’ habitats could be adversely impacted by extreme weather events such as fires and floods, should temperatures continue to surge worldwide, per an alarming study in the journal Nature Ecology and Evolution. If we don’t reverse course, this “Day After Tomorrow”-esque confluence of events could potentially expedite extinctions.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
kono 4/24/2026 11:49:34 AM (No. 2096635)
I bet this prediction was derived at least 70 years ago. It seems like a majority of stories predicting the end of life of earth wind up having already passed the posited expiration dates without incident.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
learner 4/24/2026 11:56:08 AM (No. 2096638)
Sounds like more of the same fear mongering that most sentient beings have long realized this as a grift to redistribute wealth. I would predict pigs learning to fly before any 'world will burn' reports.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
stevendm 4/24/2026 12:00:08 PM (No. 2096640)
The first sentence of this article should have been "The sky is falling".
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
bpl40 4/24/2026 12:08:40 PM (No. 2096641)
As Ronald Reagan used to say “There they go again”.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
red1066 4/24/2026 12:13:31 PM (No. 2096643)
Since my house is no closer to being beach front property than it was forty years ago, I'll just take a wait and see attitude.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
SpentPenny 4/24/2026 12:16:23 PM (No. 2096646)
So someone has read the BIble. That is a good thing.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
DVC 4/24/2026 12:22:10 PM (No. 2096650)
Just like it has in the last 50,000 years. Total bull crap. Weather is not changing, it just is a very, very variable process.
Climate crazies just can't give up on their grift.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
hershey 4/24/2026 12:24:51 PM (No. 2096654)
Oh my God, Oh my God...60 years...jeez, the 'greenies' are at it again...still waiting for the increase in sea level...anyone seen Al Bore lately??? Probably out moving termometers around to change the temps...
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
WhamDBambam 4/24/2026 12:36:01 PM (No. 2096665)
God, these termites are tedious.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
thomthomp 4/24/2026 12:41:07 PM (No. 2096666)
https://cei.org/blog/wrong-again-50-years-of-failed-eco-pocalyptic-predictions/
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
VirtuDawg 4/24/2026 12:42:56 PM (No. 2096667)
The only relationship of this “research” to “extreme weather” is the massive amount of methane that this pile of bull pucky will likely generate.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
JimBob 4/24/2026 12:51:13 PM (No. 2096669)
I have been wondering where Al 'ManBearPig' Gore had gotten off to.
Now we know!
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Red Ghost 4/24/2026 12:52:36 PM (No. 2096670)
Sounds like these so-called scientists' grants are drying up so we need more doomsday scenarios out there. These same frauds are also the ones that have prohibited any counter veiling studies to be published and discussed. Moreover, universities and think tanks do not fund counter veiling research, so there is very little of such research which is ignored or cancelled in any event. Until these so-called scientists are willing to have a robust exchange of all scientific data, these people need to go away.
In addition, what is the picture of the Palisades fire doing in the article except to frighten people and gin up this net zero BS. It has been reported the California fires a year ago were set by an arsonist, Jonathan Rinderknecht and had nothing to do with so-called global warming. The staggering and sickening destruction of peoples' lives and property had more to do with criminally incompetent state and city leadership that deliberately left the area uncleared of dangerous debris and with empty reservoirs and inadequate fire equipment with which to fight the fire, not global warming. More fake news, even from the NY Post.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
chagrined 4/24/2026 12:56:41 PM (No. 2096671)
The climate clowns are at it again. These buffoons are the climate wing of the globalists who want to control everything and tell everyone what to eat, drink, do, and say. Unfortunately, they are dangerous since their goal is to depopulate the earth by helping to decrease birth rates, or flat out kill people.
It makes no matter to them. After all, they know everything. Just ask Al Gore. s/
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
philsner 4/24/2026 1:07:22 PM (No. 2096675)
Well, the NYP is impossible to read anyway. I can't navigate through the adverts. I thought it was a normal site but I guess it's going the way of the Daily Mail.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Geoman 4/24/2026 2:20:15 PM (No. 2096687)
FTA: "By 2085, over a third of all land animals’ habitats COULD be adversely impacted by extreme weather events such as fires and floods, should temperatures continue to surge worldwide..."
The "could" for me is the "tell." Back when Regan was just beginning his first term, my favorite geology professor, about 90% field vs classroom oriented, would take small groups of his geomorphology students to rock outcroppings, exposed along Central Texas roadways. At each stop, an individual student would be chosen to interpret the depositional environment as displayed in the exposed rock formations, using all of their classroom knowledge. The idea was to apply the scientific method to determine how the landforms got to be structured as they were over millions of years. One particular shaky aspiring geologist repeatedly used the word "could," in his verbal report, to which the professor replied, "If God wanted to, He "could" have made water run up hill and deposit blue poker chips." It was clear that to those who failed to learn science, tossing in the "could" was like the universal caveat used by those who were actually without a scientific clue in their chosen field of study.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
JHHolliday 4/24/2026 2:29:19 PM (No. 2096689)
If this were to actually come to pass, then us evil, planet-warming humans will be wiped out and the planet will cool again. Something will crawl out from the remaining muck and the cycle will start all over again. In the meantime, I won't be too worried any coming Apocalypse. The only thing I care about now is the p*****g away of tax money.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Tennman 4/24/2026 2:53:41 PM (No. 2096699)
Down from 100%. Looking good since ALL life on earth is threatened by these.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
downnout 4/24/2026 3:15:29 PM (No. 2096708)
To quote Chicken Little:
The sky is falling! The sky is falling!!
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 4/24/2026 3:23:36 PM (No. 2096712)
It is possible the same number of people have been imperiled for centuries.
Are you scared? You should be. You are on scare tactics!
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
mc squared 4/24/2026 3:32:45 PM (No. 2096714)
More worried about Commiecrats and muzzi sharia law.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
Venturer 4/24/2026 4:10:03 PM (No. 2096724)
I am 83 I don't really give a damn about this phony garbage, but anyway I will be long gone.
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Actually the book of Revelation says that 50% of the people on earth will die during the 7 years of tribulation.
But no liberal policies will have the slightest impact on that outcome.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
Jethro bo 4/24/2026 4:44:25 PM (No. 2096731)
Sad, I have been living through countless end of the world predictions for over 50 years. And not one has come to pass. Run out of fossil fuel, global cooling, global warming, numerous famines, nuclear winter, acid rain, drought, massive population growth that out strips Mother Earth'a ability to support. Yep, I survived them all.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
Tennman 4/24/2026 5:39:40 PM (No. 2096745)
Usually 100%. Good to see the reduction. We are always at risk. To quote Zed, "There's always an Arquillian Battle Cruiser, or a Corillian Death Ray, or an intergalactic plague that is about to wipe out all life on this miserable little planet."
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
paral04 4/24/2026 5:47:07 PM (No. 2096746)
Not drown but freeze to death as all the papers were screaming 40 years ago.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
qr4j 4/24/2026 10:13:00 PM (No. 2096777)
More false prophecy essentially … I don’t mean that in a religious sense. But that’s what it is — teaching others to fear so you can control them and get money.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
WI Cynic 4/24/2026 11:23:07 PM (No. 2096779)
I'd like to say that if I lived to be 135, I could see them eat their words... but these mental midgets never admit their errors. They just rewrite the history of what they said, move the goalposts on their predictions, and ask for more money to correct the problems that don't exit.
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
Timber Queen 4/25/2026 1:28:29 AM (No. 2096787)
Climate scientists, what would we do without them? ....Live peaceful lives.
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
mifla 4/25/2026 6:45:10 AM (No. 2096810)
Again?
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Climate change predictions by “scientists”:
2009 "The North Pole will be ice-free in the summer by 2013 because of man-made global warming.” ~Gore
1989 Global warming and rising sea levels will wipe entire nations off the map by 2000!
1990 We have 5-10 years to save the rainforests!
1999 The Himalayan Glaciers will be gone in 10 years!
2000 Snow will soon be a thing of the past!
2012 Global warming will cause more hurricanes! 2007 Global warming will cause fewer hurricanes!
2008 The Artic will be ice-free by 2013!
1970 We’ll be in an ice age by 2000!
1976 Global cooling will cause a war by 2000! 2014 The science is settled!!!
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The world is going to end - - in 60 years! This is a move-the-goalposts update of all the "World Is Going To End" stories from the past 60 years. Here's the "tell" paragraph - - "However, more research is needed to narrow down the precise toll these weather events will have on wildlife." Yup - - gotta keep those research grants flowing. You can't be a true climate alarmist without lots of other people's money.