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 earths 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. Its 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 planets 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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Funny how the same people pushing this also say Russia interfered with the elections ...
If the biosphere of earth was that fragile, where small changes in the atmosphere could send it in to a death spiral, it wouldn’t of lasted nearly 3,000,000,000 years.
Rational people just need to translate left his fear mongering into “Give me your money and your freedom. “
I can go with that!
That's only 82 years in the future. By that time the scamsters will be in hell together with the absolute morons who swallow their scam.
Whatever they are, these fake idiots are not "scientists."
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This isn’t science it’s some fake psychic reading a crystal ball...
This isn’t science it’s some fake psychic reading a crystal ball...
That said at least these boys are smart enough to put the ‘sky is falling’ out past the point of their natural life. Al Gore made his predictions to fail during his lifetime...
Hope somebody has a cell phone!
And sure enough they all did!
Sounds to me like a good way to rid the planet of all the excess liberals.
I’ll be dead by then anyway.
Dr. Bob: Hey Edmund, you know your scientific prediction of mass extinction in 80 years is complete BS, right?
Dr. Edmund: Of course I know. It is patently obvious, but who will be alive to call me on it in 80 years? LOL. In the meantime, Left wing donors will flood me with research grants and I will be invited to all of the best liberal Galas.
You would think that some patriotic genius genetics resercher could develop a fatal disease that targets liberals only.
...unless we hand sweeping new power to the Government, and institute massive tax hikes?
Just guessing.
And when pigs fly...
Most of these scientists give their students BS degrees. You know, a degree in Bull Shit.
MIT. The Mindless Institute of Twits.
Pick and choose ...
You can’t make as large a profit from asteroids as you can from a carbon tax, and there’s much less work involved.
And liberal science is all about profit ratio.
#10. Oh, you like to fondle copopods? Weird but it might pay well given the low standards used to pay for fake research.
Hey, try Graptolites. They’re so cool that nobody knows what they are. The same for Conodonts. Nobody knows what they looked like, even moi, who did some college research on them. Maybe they were the “shapeshifters” of the oceans.
I’m still waiting for the insurance companies to reduce the earthquake insurance rates for those that live in the New Madrid Fault area since the prediction by the scientist with superior intellect was incorrect.
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