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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Researchers predict, if left unchecked, difficult to predict, have long speculated, hardly comparable, could play out, it’s anyone’s guess.
“The study, which was supported in part by NASA and the National Science Foundation...”
I predict more funding will be needed soon.
A cracked crystal ball at that.
Yup! Many people aren't aware that 8% of humans never die. It's trivial to calculate. Just take A and divide it by B, where:
A = number of people born on the planet Earth who have never died and are still alive today.
B = total number of humans who have every lived on Earth.
You'll find the figure for (B) online, estimated to be 105 billion.
And the figure for (A) is there too. There are currently close to 8 billion humans alive today. So 8 billion / 105 billion is almost 8%. QED.
What? You don't like my math? Well, too bad. Because my calculations are at least as logical and supportable as the Algor crowd's calculations. So there!
Is it 90% of all scientists?
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90% of all the scientists surveyed, chosen from the group with the largest climate related grants ...:)
What is an “ORT cloud?”
These eschatological predictions have the characteristics tea leaf readings. I say, beware of false prophets.
EQ’s dog predicts that eating kale could cause mental retardation in liberals.
with apologies to Mr. Hatcher ... “ enlighten me!”
I am aware of the idea / theory of the Oort cloud, but not the ORT cloud.
huh?
precisely! it’s a carbon CYCLE!
said cycle necessarily intersects with the Oxygen cycle(s).
I don’t think “predict” and “might” belong together in a sentence.
Good call.
Pretty much no one alive today will be around in 2100, either, so what’s to worry about?
If... would... would... would behave... difficult to predict... is associated with"
Yeah. That's SCIENCE!!!!
And that's a definitive proof of the desired (to a journalism's need for attention and ratings dollars) result!
IF Teacher317 was in a Hollywood Oscars party, Scarlett Johansson WOULD be there as well, and the party WOULD lead to meetings and liaisons, and these would be DIFFICULT TO PREDICT. In the past, this type of BEHAVIOR HAS BEEN ASSOCIATED WITH stars hooking up with non-celebrities, and thus, Teacher317 WILL definitely marry Scarlett Ingrid Johansson!!!
It has to happen. A 90% majority of the scientists I paid have said so.
By the year 2100, virtually everyone on this planet who is over the age of 30 today will be dead so their prediction is kinda true......
No, they aren’t wrong. Anything ‘could’ happen, doesn’t mean it’s likely, lol.
The answer to this impending doom is obvious, same as always. All we have to do is send all of our money to the unelected tyrannical oligarchy of “world leaders” and they’ll take care of this for us.
globalists, illegals, drug traffickers, socialists communsts, facists, democrats, and dumb a## self hating white people?? ok
Just another Chicken Little Renew-My-Research-Grant mantra.
And in 2100 if the scientists are wrong, they’ll give the money back. Yeah, right.
Were computer models used?
Garbage in, garbage out.
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