Enjoy It While You Can: Dropping Oxygen Will One Day Suffocate Most Life on Earth

Science Alert ^ | 08 December 2022 | By DAVID NIELD

[seowulf]

Like human beings will be around a billion years from now!

People have a hard time grasping time on that scale.

If you accept that the earliest hominids showed about a million years ago, then we have only existed for 0.1% of a billion years.

Besides, it’s all over in 8.3 years anyway.

[Abathar]

A billion years? That is so insignificant it’s not even measurable in the time flow...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uD4izuDMUQA

[SunkenCiv]

Trouble is, I’ve got plans for that day.

[blam]

I can remember when you could go outside and breathe all you wanted. Free of charge.

[Red Badger]

I can remember when you could go outside and if it was cold or if it was hot, it was just called ‘weather’, not ‘climate change’....................

“Climate is what you expect. Weather is what you get.” - Robert Heinlein..........

[GingisK]

With good mix of methane and oxygen, a lightning bolt will regenerate a lot of water and CO₂. A bright flash and some heat too.

[dsrtsage]

“ We’ll have all the methane we need to heat our homes and the greenies quit their incessant nagging and harping about CO2. ”

The greenies constantly carp about methane as well for two reasons. Number one, though they cry about the 0.04% CO2 in our atmosphere will turn the surface of the earth to molten slag, methane on the other hand is many times more potent of a greenhouse gas so the surface will vaporize if it reaches one tenth the CO2 concentration.

The bigger reason they will be against methane is because our food (animals) produces it, and the worst thing they can imagine is poor people being allowed to eat plentiful rich people food.

[tet68]

Omg! We are all going to die!!

It’s ok, as long as I get to see Jane Fonda and Hillary
Clinton go first...

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

I predict it won’t happen. Who is going to prove me wrong?

[USAF1985]

“This probably won’t happen for another billion years or so”

So we have only a billion years to flatten the curve...better start throwing trillions of dollars at it!

[Radix]

If it were half a billion years I might seriously become concerned.

[Mlheureux]

In a billion years! Get a life and get another job - science evades them.

[BillT]

We are all going to die! again...

[mykroar]

Women and children hardest hit.™

[ShadowAce]

"We're talking around a million times less oxygen than there is today."

I miss editors. I also miss people who know how to write a sentence.

[Allegra]

Cool beans.

[gitmo]

Agreed. What the heck does “a millions times less” mean?

[gitmo]

This probably won't happen for another billion years or so. But when the change comes, it's going to happen fairly rapidly, according to research published in 2021.

I'm bookmarking this article to see if they're correct. I'm going to embarrass them if they're wrong.

[PIF]

The Earth’s oxygen percentage has steadily declined sine the meteor bombardment over 60 million years ago which burned off a considerable percentage of oxygen.

And then again 12,800 years ago, at the onset of the Younger Dryas, were 4% of the Earth’s vegetation burned of during a 100 year long comet debris bombardment.

[ConservativeInPA]

We need to take action now! Global socialism is the only answer.