Yes! Have to get away from that lunatic in a t-rex costume!
Posted on 12/09/2018 8:08:53 AM PST by EdnaMode
Some 252 million years ago, Earth almost died.
In the oceans, 96 percent of all species became extinct. It’s harder to determine how many terrestrial species vanished, but the loss was comparable.
This mass extinction, at the end of the Permian Period, was the worst in the planet’s history, and it happened over a few thousand years at most — the blink of a geological eye.
On Thursday, a team of scientists offered a detailed accounting of how marine life was wiped out during the Permian-Triassic mass extinction. Global warming robbed the oceans of oxygen, they say, putting many species under so much stress that they died off.
And we may be repeating the process, the scientists warn. If so, then climate change is “solidly in the category of a catastrophic extinction event,” said Curtis Deutsch, an earth scientist at the University of Washington and co-author of the new study, published in the journal Science.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Good, no more libs.
Great news!
Now I’ll just start buying stuff - cars, vacations, homes - on credit. The world will end before I have to pay off.
Relying on a fossil here and a fossil there....hardly the basis for a real number.
Dear oh Mighty Scientists....Please list the names and descriptions of the 96% of ocean critters that went extinct and documentation of their location.
Warming? We’ve already had single digit temperatures, with below zero wind chill. We’ve had snow several times. The first snowfall in early November brought 7-8 inches. My car is covered in a light dusting since yesterday. I live in Central NY State. Today’s temperature is 30...windchill 22. Overnight temps in the teens. I wouldn’t mind some global warming right about now.
Must...Go...Faster!!!!
Yes! Have to get away from that lunatic in a t-rex costume!
is that because planets naturally warm up when they leave a full ice age or even a little one?
or that the Sun’s output changes
or that a very large solid rock collides with the Earth ...
or that the very large solid rock is so large that major volcanic flows occur on the side opposite the impact ... (Siberian Traps/Deccan Traps)
Well, things sure were a lot different during the period of the Permian Extinction. Note how all the earth's landmasses were jammed together. I'm not an expert, but the conditions for life were a lot different then. Things that we take for granted that affect our general climate -- like the Gulf Stream that is so important in moderating European winters -- couldn't have existed then because, heck, there wasn't a Caribbean Sea.
If the warming took place over 3,000 years, then on land and in the oceans, animals who were mobile would move north or south to get cooler.
The one (and only) good thing about a NYT article on science is that virtually anyone with above room temp IQ (which eliminates a good many Democrat representatives) can easily refute the article with no effort whatsoever.
Gads, it’s sooooooo wonderful when a mere journalist attempts to write on the one subject he/she/it/whatever avoided like the plague even in elementary school.
“May”. “If so”. Yeah, let’s panic and enact a tax.
This guy is desperate so make sure his grant money keeps flowing.
I read some study last year that said if all of the wealth of the world was pooled together to fight climate change, the result would be an almost imperceptible change in the earth's temperature.
IOW, we can't throw enough money at this issue to make a difference.
If some catastrophic extinction event were to occur, we'd all be thumbing a ride down the same burnt-up highway anyway. Or dead.
Maybe you'd prefer geologist, i.e., the Greek combining forms "geo" for Earth and "ology" meaning "a science or other branch of knowledge." So we'd call geologists " Earth scientists" or "scientists who study the Earth."
All I know is we'd better REPENT!. The end of the world is nigh!
So many of the variables that contribute to the climate of the earth, not least of which is its geologic arrangement & landscape, were not the same contextually in, during or at the end of the Permian period, and therefor neither “warming” nor what came from it consequentially then, can be claimed as a barometer of what may result from any warming that may develop now.
Its a typical “science” attempt to make orange juice from apples.
And how many of the "Climate scientists" have undergrads in stuff like Political Science, Sociology, or the various Victim Studies fields?
These people are just loads of fun to talk to. Ask them to explain the water cycle as taught to a third-grade or fourth-grade science class. They can't.
George Carlin is correct. One thing he misses. No all of humanity is stupid or tied to majority stupid people. Humans will adapt and survive. We may revert 4000 years but some will live.
You have made my point.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.