Posted on 08/04/2018 7:57:53 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
July 28, 2018Earth, Environment
Scientists Predict Mass Extinction Could Be Triggered By 2100 by Ben Renner
BOSTON — Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) predict that by 2100, the earth’s oceans will contain so much carbon that a sixth mass extinction will begin.
“This is not saying that disaster occurs the next day,” explains Daniel Rothman, a professor of geophysics in the MIT Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, about his recent study in a media release. “It’s saying that, if left unchecked, the carbon cycle would move into a realm which would be no longer stable, and would behave in a way that would be difficult to predict. In the geologic past, this type of behavior is associated with mass extinction.”
Over the past 540 million years, Earth has been through five mass extinctions. Each event, according to scientists, was precipitated by events that disrupted or upended the natural cycling of carbon through the oceans and atmosphere. These global carbon cycle disruptions each took thousands or millions of years, and coincided with each massive die-off of many of the planet’s species.
Climatologists and other scientists have long speculated that the carbon cycle of our modern age is being fatally disrupted. The main difference between carbon cycle disruptions of the past and now, of course, is time. Carbon levels have only been rising precipitously for the past 100 to 150 years, hardly comparable to disruptions of ancient times.
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When I’m 140 years old? Yeah, that worries me.
It could but then again maybe not.
Yes. I agree. It’s a real tangible risk that we can do something about.
End of the world, women and minorities hit hardest.
I will be amused when all of those scientists have to apologize in 2101 and admit that they were wrong. I’ll throw a party that day.
I'd like five minutes alone in a room with these lying dirt-pukes.
“Could be.”
Very scientific.
Carbon levels have only been rising precipitously for the past 100 to 150 years
Do these people even read what they write?
Carbon dioxide gets dissolved into the ocean from the air, we already know that. What we also know is that the amount of carbon dioxide that the ocean can keep dissolved is related to the temperature of the water. Colder water absorbs more, hotter water can absorb less.
In the last ice age, the ocean got cold enough to absorb a lot of carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere, all the way down to about 180 ppm. After the Earth warms out of an ice age, some carbon dioxide precipitates out of the ocean back into the air, which is one of the reasons we are gaining CO2.
This is the only correlation so far discovered between CO2 in the atmosphere and temperature. But first, the water warms up, then the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere increases, not the other way around. And there is about a 600 year gap in between the two.
This person proposes that when the Earth's oceans heat up, they absorb more carbon dioxide, which is the opposite of what we can measure and experimentally reproduce.
Where’s the picture of Goebbels?
Of course, I'll be 150 years old, but I might be alive...or I might get hit by a bus tomorrow...
...so tonight I’m going to party like it’s 2099.
Scientists Predict Monkeys Could Fly Out Of My Butt
Fake news. The fine print of the article says
That said, he notes it would likely still take yet another 10,000 years for an actual catastrophic event to occur as a result.
So taxpayers can pony up money for 10,000 years to try to stop it. Me, I'll be long dead before 10,000 years pass.
These so-called scientists are aware, aren’t they, that we’re all made of carbon, and that the more carbon there is, the more life the planet can support?
It would be nice if these physicists (or whatever the climate alarmists are) would consult a little with life scientists. No carbon, no life.
I’m a life scientist; I know the value of carbon.
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