Posted on 10/04/2017 3:17:22 PM PDT by PROCON
The amount of carbon dioxide that humans will have released into the atmosphere by 2100 may be enough to trigger a sixth mass extinction, a new study suggests.
The huge spike in CO2 levels over the past century may put the world dangerously close to a "threshold of catastrophe," after which environmental instability and mass die-offs become inevitable, the new mathematical analysis finds.
Even if a mass extinction is in the cards, however, it likely wouldn't be evident immediately. Rather, the process could take 10,000 years to play out, said study co-author Daniel Rothman, a geophysicist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. [7 Iconic Animals Humans Are Driving to Extinction
However, slashing carbon emissions dramatically in the coming years may also be enough to prevent such global catastrophe, said Lee Kump, a geoscientist at Pennsylvania State University who was not involved in the study.
Carbon and death
Over Earth's 4.5-billion-year history, life has seen a lot of boom and bust times. In the past half-billion years alone, five major extinctions have wiped out huge swaths of life: the Ordovician-Silurian mass extinction, the Late Devonian mass extinction, the Permian mass extinction, the Triassic-Jurassic mass extinction and the Cretaceous-Tertiary mass extinction that wiped out the dinosaurs. The most severe was the Permian extinction, or "The Great Dying," when over 95 percent of marine life and 70 percent of land-based life died off.
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>>All of this based on Models that use False and Fraudulent Data.<<
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True, but the best data in the world wouldn’t help them. To many variables, too many interconnected systems, too many unknowns.
Anyone who has ever done genuine computer modeling of complex systems know this “climate science” is COMPLETE FRAUD.
It is nothing but another leftist scheme to bring about global slavery, where no one except the “government” owns anything at all.
WE’RE ALL GONNA DIE?
Paging Herr Goebbels...
WOMEN AND MINORITIES HIT HARDEST!!!
The amount of carbon dioxide that humans will have released into the atmosphere by 2100 may be enough to...put the world dangerously close to a "threshold of catastrophe," ...likely wouldn't be evident immediately... could take 10,000 years to play out, said study co-author Daniel Rothman, a geophysicist
CO2 levels during the dinosaur era was many TIMES as high as today, we are semi-carbon starved as it is.
“In the atmosphere, only four out of every ten thousand particles is carbon dioxide.”
Surely five in ten thousand would be lethal to all life.
What a bunch of crap.
“”Every time there’s been a major mass extinction one of the big five there’s been a serious disruption of the global carbon cycle,” “
Notice that this phrased in such a way that stupid people will believe the mass extinctions were CAUSED by the “disruption of the global carbon cycle”, when in fact, no such causation is true at all.
A mass extinction would solve a lot of problems.
OOOOOHH DEAR GAAAAAAWWWD - will these shrieking fidiots please stop with the never ending whaling of incorrect, skewed, biased, foaming at the mouth BULL SHITE !! I’d really hate to be a youngster trying to get a “bead on things” in today’s America. No wonder they are all nuts !!
Just sayin’ . . . . .
Cool. More plants will grow and the rainforests will replenish to the delight of environmentalists
A mass extinction? People in church are going to die?
‘Threshold of Catastrophe’
That’s what Barry McGuire was going to originally name his song. I told him that “Eve of Destruction” rolled off the tongue better. I sometimes wonder what would have happened if he had stuck with the original title.
Meteors, and lack of sunspots.
“The huge spike in CO2 levels over the past century may put the world dangerously close to a “threshold of catastrophe,” after which environmental instability and mass die-offs become inevitable ... the process could take 10,000 years to play out”
damn slowest catastrophe i’ve ever heard of ....
Yep, lack of sunspots leads to Ice Age.
Cold Kills.
lol
well.. at least they are smart enough now to say 10,000 years from now instead of 10 :P which makes them look like fool every 10 years.
What we ARE close to is the second coming of Christ.
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