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 ...
Garbage In - Garbage Out, professor.
By the year 2100, no one will remember your dumbass equation, or note how utterly wrong you were. What history will remember, is what a mockery you and your co-religionists made of real science.
Well played sir!
I just think, that Dr Einstein would have some interesting way of telling them all that they are wrong.
Re: Posting history. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a more negative Nelly poster ever at FR.
It’s beyond pathetic that anyone could think we could tame the 5th most abundant element on earth.
Earth ocean mass: 1,450,000,000,000,000,000 tons
Added carbon: 350,000,000,000
241 ppm
Big picture...you take all that carbon deposited in the eart’s crust over hundreds of millions of years and release it to the atmosphere in one hundred years. COULD something bad happen?
meanwhile... the planet is getting greener by the minute.
liberals completely ignore reality.
I agree with you that we are nearing the end. But I also believe no man knows the day or the hour. IOW, be prepared at all times.
“If this guy were this good hed have figured out the math to winning Powerball and Mega Millions.”
Actually, I understand the “ball” this guy uses is the Magic Eightball!
I predict...
that some quack environmental or religious nut job will again predict that “the end is near”... and that I will survive once again, as I always have!
Another “climate” scientist who will be taken seriously like Dr. Algore and all of the “scientist” actors from the Hollywood School of Acting and Climate Change Studies!
Blacks, sexual freaks and muslims hurt the most.....
More at 11:00 PM
“Big picture...you take all that carbon deposited in the earts crust over hundreds of millions of years and release it to the atmosphere in one hundred years. COULD something bad happen?”
Absolutely. World government leaders could fear monger a theory from the position of authority to crash developed world economies with the intention of stealing wealth for themselves and their enablers.
Jesus will be ruling from Jerusalem by then.
LOL...nicely put. Seems like there could be a PhD thesis topic in that idea.
"The anthropogenic Global Warming myth is an attempt to promote global Socialism by mandating a MASSIVE "carbon tax" that would enslave the economy of the USA.
We all live in this world with limited actual resources. Where do the 310 gigatons of carbon then come from?
Plants love all that carbon dioxide and more CO2 = more plants.
Plants eat CO2 and release oxygen and animals eat the plants.
More CO2 = more plants and animals.
Democrats demand to be first in everything so let them be the in the first wave.
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