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Earth will face a SIXTH mass extinction by 2100 thanks to global warming, predicts mathematician
Daily Mail ^ | September 21, 2017 | By TIM COLLINS

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 ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bullshit; globalism; globalwarming; hoax; socialism
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

How convenient that Professor Daniel Rothman won’t be around to answer for his prediction. What does he think will happen next month?


61 posted on 09/21/2017 8:59:02 AM PDT by MileHi (Liberalism is an ideology of parasites, hypocrites, grievance mongers, victims, and control freaks.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
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.

The earth and it's atmosphere is a closed system, nothing is added to it.

Where did the carbon come from???? Oh, the earth. Where is it going???? Oh, the earth.

310 gigatons of carbon will not be added, just moved and re-cycled.

62 posted on 09/21/2017 9:02:44 AM PDT by USS Alaska (Kill all mooselimb, terrorist savages, with extreme prejudice! Deus Vult!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

What did the constipated mathematician do?

He worked it out with a pencil


63 posted on 09/21/2017 9:04:36 AM PDT by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60's....You weren't really there)
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To: Rebelbase

Nonsense. If Powerball and Mega Millions are honest games, there is no “math” to “figuring them out”. They’re random numbers.


64 posted on 09/21/2017 9:05:14 AM PDT by NorthMountain
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To: Angels27

And, no liberals will be allowed entry. ;-)


65 posted on 09/21/2017 9:05:39 AM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

If human-caused climate change is going to cause this 6th extinction event, who/what caused the other 5 extinction events?


66 posted on 09/21/2017 9:19:22 AM PDT by TomGuy
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Interesting article about acidification of the oceans.
https://www.pmel.noaa.gov/co2/story/What+is+Ocean+Acidification%3F

Yes, much of what the left is doing in climate change is to take control of our lives. They have lied about the research. They are vomit inducing hypocritical. But I do have some concern about what is happening to the oceans. Moving toward environmentally friendly sources of renewable power is a good thing and, unlike most here, I do not mock the general goal. If we ultimately get to the place, after capital expenditure, that we get almost “free” power from the sun, that’s good. As long as there is a balance that allows us to move that way without destroying jobs and the world economy and giving the elitists control over our daily lives, I am fine with the efforts. I try to lead my own life as if I am renting my space here and I want God to give me back my security deposit.

Flame away if you like, but I am not going to respond. Just giving an opinion.


67 posted on 09/21/2017 9:20:35 AM PDT by doug from upland (Mayflower Hotel --- hotel of choice for Dem officials and their hookers)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Oh well, I won’t be here for it. /s


68 posted on 09/21/2017 9:20:41 AM PDT by Afterguard (Deplorable me!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Must be using that newfangled math.....someone should make him check his work and show it clearly...


69 posted on 09/21/2017 9:25:15 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: BigEdLB
The 'Magic Mullas' as opposed to the 'Fabulous Moolah'

70 posted on 09/21/2017 9:27:51 AM PDT by A Formerly Proud Canadian (I once was blind but now I see...)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Let’s see your data, you fraud!


71 posted on 09/21/2017 9:28:06 AM PDT by G Larry (There is no great virtue in bargaining with the Devil)
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To: Afterguard
Oh well, I won’t be here for it. /s

Darn, don't tell me that I'm going to miss another one. I missed the first five, so I thought that, for sure, I would get to see this one ... but NOOOOOOOOO ...

72 posted on 09/21/2017 9:30:47 AM PDT by BlueLancer (ANTIFA - The new and improved SturmAbteilung)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
The model showed the critical extra amount required is about 310 gigatons ...

310 GIGATONS!!??


73 posted on 09/21/2017 9:32:48 AM PDT by BlueLancer (ANTIFA - The new and improved SturmAbteilung)
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To: plain talk
That's the first thing that I thought of as well ... I used a different picture, but I guess I was just a little too late to the party.


74 posted on 09/21/2017 9:35:26 AM PDT by BlueLancer (ANTIFA - The new and improved SturmAbteilung)
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To: ChildOfThe60s
He worked it out with a pencil.

...about 310 gigatons of carbon...

Now, THAT is a sh*tload of pencils!

75 posted on 09/21/2017 9:40:03 AM PDT by BlueLancer (ANTIFA - The new and improved SturmAbteilung)
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To: Rebelbase

Day after tomorrow, if I read this right:

http://www.foxnews.com/science/2017/09/15/biblical-prophecy-claims-world-will-end-on-sept-23-christian-numerologists-claim.html


76 posted on 09/21/2017 9:48:14 AM PDT by Carriage Hill ( Poor demoncrats haven't been this mad, since the Republicans took their slaves away.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I predict, with 99% certainty, that is mathematician will not be here to be called out on his incorrect prediction when it proves to be wrong.


77 posted on 09/21/2017 9:51:47 AM PDT by PTBAA
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To: doug from upland

No reason to flame, I agree with you and the goals of actual environmentalism, just not the Marxist left pushing an agenda as “science”.


78 posted on 09/21/2017 10:07:35 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: TomGuy

Dinosaurs drove SUVs.


79 posted on 09/21/2017 10:09:46 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

You know, I’m rethinking Mao’s cultural revolution.

Maybe it wasn’t a such bad idea taking all the academics and sending them out to do actual work in the farms.


80 posted on 09/21/2017 10:15:39 AM PDT by aquila48
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