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To: Purdue77

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_far_future


15 posted on 08/11/2015 2:12:09 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (My music: http://hopalongginsberg.com/ | Facebook: Hopalong Ginsberg | Instagram: hopalonginsberg)
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To: Slings and Arrows

Interesting timeline.

From that timeline:
600 million The Sun’s increasing luminosity begins to disrupt the carbonate–silicate cycle; higher luminosity increases weathering of surface rocks, which traps carbon dioxide in the ground as carbonate. As water evaporates from the Earth’s surface, rocks harden, causing plate tectonics to slow and eventually stop. Without volcanoes to recycle carbon into the Earth’s atmosphere, carbon dioxide levels begin to fall.[50] By this time, carbon dioxide levels will fall to the point at which C3 photosynthesis is no longer possible. All plants that utilize C3 photosynthesis (~99 percent of present-day species) will die.[51]

This implies that Evil Carbon isn’t so evil after all. But don’t tell the liberals that.


59 posted on 08/12/2015 4:26:24 AM PDT by samtheman (Trump/Cruz '16)
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