Posted on 09/21/2017 7:51:18 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Climate change will have sent Earth on the way to its sixth mass extinction in less than a lifetime, new research warns.
By the year 2100, about 310 gigatons of carbon will have been added to the oceans - a potential 'tipping point' for ecological disaster, according to the study.
When CO2 dissolves into the ocean - as in the case of the End-Permian mass extinction - life on Earth is at risk.
Professor Daniel Rothman from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology came up with a simple mathematical formula to predict when the next mass extinction would take place.
The formula predicts that by the end of the century oceans will hold enough carbon to launch a mass extermination of species in the future.
The model showed the critical extra amount required is about 310 gigatons, which is around the best case scenario projected by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
And it's well below the worst of more than 500 gigatons that would far exceed the line.
In all scenarios the study found by the end of the century the carbon cycle will either be close to, or well beyond, the threshold for catastrophe.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Life vests on and launch the life boats STAT!
Good.
Cause or effect?
I don`t want to brag, but I`ve survived the end of the world at least six times, so bring it on.
Allow me to add the unspoken conclusion:
,,,and the only thing that can prevent the catastrophe is massive amounts of wealth transfer from those who produce to those who leech....I mean, who are our betters.
I see they are still producing LSD in the lab at MIT.
And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.
If this guy were this good he’d have figured out the math to winning Powerball and Mega Millions.
I’ll put on my calendar
“O Lord, thou preservest man and beast.” Psalm 36:6
“He (Christ) upholds all things by the word of His power.” Hebrews 1:3
Therefore will not we fear….
Sooooooo, I shouldn't be concerned with Sept. 23rd, 2017?
I thought the world was supposed to end next week?
They can’t predict the weekend weather on Monday but can predict what happens almost a hundred years from now.
More fear mongering foolishness.
Bullsh!t from someone on a college faculty with a PhD is still bullsh!t. Those who can do. Those who can’t teach.
Don't be foolish. It's this weekend. Now get your party hat and clown suit and don't be late.
Would you stop posting this crap? Seriously.
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