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Mass global extinction that wipes out human civilization will begin in 2100, mathematician predicts
Fox News ^ | Sept. 23, 2017

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, it’s 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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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: fakescience; globalwarming
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1 posted on 09/23/2017 1:37:17 PM PDT by Hadean
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To: Hadean

I’m sure he will apologize when 2100 comes and goes and nothing happens.


2 posted on 09/23/2017 1:38:24 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Benedict McCain is the worst traitor ever to wear the uniform of the US military.)
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To: Hadean

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?


3 posted on 09/23/2017 1:40:14 PM PDT by KC_Lion (If you want on First Lady Melania's, Ivanka Trump's or Sarah Palin's Ping Lists, just let me know.)
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To: Hadean

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.


4 posted on 09/23/2017 1:40:42 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (John McBane is the turd in the national puch-bowl.)
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To: Hadean

And I’ll be a spry 140 years old.


5 posted on 09/23/2017 1:41:42 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: Hadean

We’ve survived Sept. 23rd so far, 2100 I’ll be 158, can’t wait.


6 posted on 09/23/2017 1:41:43 PM PDT by boomop1 (Term limits is the only way to change this failed government.)
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To: Hadean

Man made globul warming, a complete hoax, and those thay promote it are the snake oil salesmen of our times.


7 posted on 09/23/2017 1:43:18 PM PDT by exnavy (long live the .45 colt, the original handgun cartridge.)
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To: Hadean

Not like he will still be around in 2100 when his math gets graded.

8 posted on 09/23/2017 1:45:41 PM PDT by Snickering Hound
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To: Hadean

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?


9 posted on 09/23/2017 1:46:04 PM PDT by super7man (Madam Defarge, knitting, knitting, always knitting)
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To: Snickering Hound

Gaydar redlined.


10 posted on 09/23/2017 1:46:46 PM PDT by CincyRichieRich (We must never shut up. Covfefe: A great dish served piping hot!)
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To: Hadean

That gives me just enough time to perfect my time machine...


11 posted on 09/23/2017 1:46:57 PM PDT by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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Liberal elite idiots have finally learned to put their ‘prophesies’ past the points of their own deaths. Makes it so they don't have to look like idiots in their own lifetimes - - robbing the rest of us of mocking them to their faces...

Guess they leaned that trick from Al Gore's failures - his 'mistakes' and drama bits about us being underwater by this time...

12 posted on 09/23/2017 1:48:06 PM PDT by GOPJ ("$3 Million Dollars 'PER DAY' is spent to incarcerate criminal illegals.That's $1.2 Billion a year.")
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To: Snickering Hound

I’ve never seen anyone before, who’s head actually looks like a dick.


13 posted on 09/23/2017 1:48:44 PM PDT by Lazamataz (The "news" networks and papers are bitter, dangerous enemies of the American people.)
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Grant whore.


14 posted on 09/23/2017 1:49:20 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: Lazamataz
I’ve never seen anyone before, who’s head actually looks like a dick.

But you'd still "hit that," right?

15 posted on 09/23/2017 1:49:43 PM PDT by x
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To: Hadean
What a dope. He's off by 12 years.


16 posted on 09/23/2017 1:51:05 PM PDT by DoodleBob
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To: Hadean

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.


17 posted on 09/23/2017 1:53:40 PM PDT by TigersEye (0bama. The Legacy is a lie. The lie is the Legacy.)
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To: Hadean

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).


18 posted on 09/23/2017 1:54:15 PM PDT by LibWhacker
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To: Hadean

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.


19 posted on 09/23/2017 1:54:48 PM PDT by Wuli
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To: GOPJ

Liberal elite idiots have finally learned to put their ‘prophesies’ past the points of their own deaths.


Religious nuts, even more idiotically, put their prophesies in current time where they can be instantly refuted. They could learn from the liberal elite.


20 posted on 09/23/2017 1:55:23 PM PDT by sparklite2 (I'm less interested in the rights I have than the liberties I can take.)
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