Posted on 12/07/2018 10:19:28 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
If humans continue to pump greenhouse gases at our current rate, “we have no reason to think it wouldn’t cause a similar type of extinction," said Curtis Deutsch, a UW professor and author of the research.
More than two-thirds of life on earth died off some 252 million years ago, in the largest mass extinction event in Earth’s history.
Researchers have long suspected that volcanic eruptions triggered “the Great Dying,” as the end of the Permian geologic period is sometimes called, but exactly how so many creatures died has been something of a mystery.
Now scientists at the University of Washington and Stanford believe their models reveal how so many animals were killed, and they see frightening parallels in the path our planet is on today.
Models of the effects of volcanic greenhouse-gas releases showed the earth warming dramatically and oxygen disappearing from its oceans, leaving many marine animals unable to breathe.
The researchers tested the model’s results against fossil-record patterns from the time of the extinction and found they correlated closely.
“The study tells us what’s at the end of the road if we let climate [change] keep going. The further we go, the more species we’re likely to lose,” Deutsch said. “That’s frightening. The loss of species is irreversible.”
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The I-am-God complex these atheists exhibit is what is frightening. Humans on Earth are said to be able to destroy all living organisms. We have been told WE are affecting conditions on other planets. That there is any reportage about this in any media is evidence of their complicity in the scam.
I’m sure that we’ll also find out that they were sapient enough to design telescoping steering columns and all.
[[3. And the definite science on extinction events is? Oh, they are still theories or hypotheses? So we have a hypothesis, an unvalidated model, unexplained naturally occurring CO2 equals humans are baaaddd.]]
Exactly- pure BS- they don’t know what caused the extinctions, and it’s bad bad science to pretend that rising CO2 caused their demise and suggesting it ‘could happen again’- it is pure propaganda-driven fear-mongering plain and simple
These so called scientists are missing a rather important piece of information: There is not enough combustible carbon left on Earth to cause that much of a greenhouse effect. It has almost all* been bound up in carbonaceous rocks*, most not easily combustible (such as limestone), a trend that appears to have accelerated with the rise of the Himalayas. (If any reader is not aware - unlikely? — The Earth has been in a long term cooling trend and Ice Age punctuated by brief “interglacials”, ever since the Himalayan Plateau made its rise.)
*The small amount of carbon left over shows up as CO2 in the atmosphere, and combustibles such as life, oil, tar, peat, and coal.
Some sort of repeat tremendous volcanic event could perhaps release enough CO2 to drive temperatures up to “life negative” levels. Humans don’t have the capacity - at least not at present.
Great. Barney now confirms Ecclesiastes 1:9 too.
Forensic scientists have narrowed the list of suspects to one Fred Flintstone and his accomplice in crimes against humanity Barney Rubble.
We should find a way to prevent future eruptions.
the other thing is- back then, (according to long age theorists) the CO2 level in atmosphere was near 1000 ppm- and animals and plantlife still thrived- I don’t believe in long earth age, but we did have periods when the earth atmosphere was near 1000 ppm, yet life thrived- scientists today are ‘assuring everyone’ that 450 i believe it is, ppm is the ‘tipping point’, the ‘point of no return’ blah blah blah-
also ice core samples prove that warming happens 100’s of years BEFORE CO2 rises- therefore CO2 is NOT causing warming- other causes are the reason- Yet they have BS’d the world to think CO2 is the cause of warming
We saw france rebel against their government for trying to enact a ‘fuel tax’ recently- exposing the real reason for all this idiotic science behind the fictional ‘man-caused’ climate change- it’;s nothing but a giant scam to lien the pockets of governments around the world
What about Mr. Slates extraction of natural resources?
Finally a study we can believe in. What? Oh, the red phone!?
When will the volcanic eruptions and cosmic impacts begin?
Someone please post the bullshit meter.
“He also works with terrestrial ecologists to understand how climate influences the patterns of thermal fitness...”
https://environment.uw.edu/faculty/curtis-deutsch/
Ecologists aren’t real scientists... they’re a subset of the wacky liberal erff religion...
Hmmmm, howz about listing every prediction by the D-grade climate researchers that has come true thus far.
Just one.
True that.
They’re going to have a hard time topping that threat.
Yes, a comet made entirely of human produced CO2 ice.
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