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Scientists Predict Mass Extinction Could Be Triggered By 2100
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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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To: IronJack

Exactly...if it is not impossible COULD happen. According to the laws of thermodynamics...it could freeze at the equator on any given day.


81 posted on 08/05/2018 6:54:37 AM PDT by RonnG ( v)
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To: Sub-Driver

Researchers + Magic 8 ball = DOOM

Same ones who stated in the 70’s new ice age nearing.

Roll the dice.


82 posted on 08/05/2018 8:16:24 AM PDT by Vaduz (women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
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To: equaviator

Thank you Sir!


83 posted on 08/05/2018 8:41:18 AM PDT by Seruzawa (TANSTAAFL!)
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To: Sub-Driver

‘There goes my plans........’

mine too...a hard thing to have to accept in my 147th year of life...


84 posted on 08/05/2018 9:46:50 AM PDT by IrishBrigade
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To: Titus-Maximus

Don’t forget children. 8>)


85 posted on 08/05/2018 10:45:48 AM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: Sub-Driver

Scientist (me) predicts liberals will be triggered by
President Trump for next six years...


86 posted on 08/05/2018 10:48:30 AM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: ClearCase_guy
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.

They'll never admit they were wrong. Glaciers could be moving across the country, and they'd stick to the claims of their cult.

87 posted on 08/05/2018 11:31:01 AM PDT by zeugma (Power without accountability is fertilizer for tyranny.)
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To: 75thOVI; Abathar; agrace; aimhigh; Alice in Wonderland; AndrewC; aragorn; aristotleman; ...
So much for MIT.
Total BS. Thanks Sub-Driver.

88 posted on 08/05/2018 1:30:36 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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To: Sub-Driver

It won’t be carbon that would cause mass extinction. It would be man, in particular man apart from God. The Bible says that if Jesus doesn’t come back exactly when He does all flesh will be gone. Jesus comes back in time to save man and all flesh from man who tries to rule the world apart from God.

Also, man and all flesh is digressing on a genetic level. Nothing man can do can stop our genetic demise. Thank The LORD only He can and He will.


89 posted on 08/05/2018 9:01:43 PM PDT by Bellflower (Who dares believe Jesus? He says absolutely amazing things, which few dare consider.)
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To: ClearCase_guy
"I’ll throw a party that day."

And I will turn over in my grave.

90 posted on 08/06/2018 7:15:40 AM PDT by HangThemHigh (Entropy is not what it used to be.)
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