Posted on 09/23/2017 1:37:17 PM PDT by Hadean
A mass extinction which wipes out humanity will be underway by the year 2100, scientists have claimed.
By the end of the century, its feared that so much carbon will have been added to the oceans that the planet will have passed a threshold of catatastrophe which leads to the destruction of our species.
In the past 540 million years the planet has endured five such wipeouts including the extinction of the dinosaurs.
The worst took place 252 million years ago and is known as the Great Dying.
This disaster killed off more than 95 per cent of marine life when the seas suddenly became more acidic.
Now geophysicist Professor Daniel Rothman says we are seeing a disturbing parallel today this time because of man-made global warming.
He came up with a simple mathematic formula which predict that the oceans will soon hold so much carbon that a mass extinction is inevitable.
It showed the critical extra amount required is about 310 gigatons which is the best case scenario projected by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). And it's well below the worst of more than 500 gigatons - which would far exceed the line.
In all scenarios, the study found by the end of the century the carbon cycle will either be close to - or well beyond - the threshold for catastrophe.
Although mass extinction won't soon follow at the turn of the century the world may have tipped into "unknown territory".
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I’m sure he will apologize when 2100 comes and goes and nothing happens.
Barley over a month ago these people couldn’t predict Hurricane Irma or Maria, how the hell are going to predict something 80 years from now?
Let me guess, it’s Al Gore using a pen name.
Of course it could be someone who wants to grow up to be just like him.
And I’ll be a spry 140 years old.
We’ve survived Sept. 23rd so far, 2100 I’ll be 158, can’t wait.
Man made globul warming, a complete hoax, and those thay promote it are the snake oil salesmen of our times.
Mass extinction? How?
Nonetheless; I’ll start stocking up on stuff now. I’m getting ice. A new filter for my AC..... And...what else?
Gaydar redlined.
That gives me just enough time to perfect my time machine...
Guess they leaned that trick from Al Gore's failures - his 'mistakes' and drama bits about us being underwater by this time...
I’ve never seen anyone before, who’s head actually looks like a dick.
Grant whore.
But you'd still "hit that," right?
In that case I want to spend my money on a good time not carbon offsets that won’t reduce carbon emissions by a single molecule.
Paul Ehrlich, who predicted in his ridiculous “population bomb” BS that hundreds of millions of people would die of starvation in the 70s, didn’t keel over and die himself of massive professional embarrassment because he’s totally shameless. These people are equally shameless (and will be proven equally wrong).
I would LOVE to make it beyond another 83 years (live to a “biblical” age) - just so I could remind those living then of all the predictions being made now.
Liberal elite idiots have finally learned to put their prophesies past the points of their own deaths.
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