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.
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“310 gigatons! Great Scott!!”
Which is less than one millionth of the weight of the oceans.
We’re all going to die!
Not to mention the 6 million tons of space dust that land on earth every year.
Was oceanic CO2 levels increase, CO2-loving organisms will proliferate, turning it into calcium carbonate (chalk), as they did during the Cretaceous Period. This is how we got the White Cliffs of Dover.
As oceanic CO2 levels increase, CO2-loving organisms will proliferate, turning it into calcium carbonate (chalk), as they did during the Cretaceous Period. This is how we got the White Cliffs of Dover.
Yeah, this global warming stuff is BS. Carbon in the atmosphere is a tiny fraction of a single percent of the atmosphere. Even if you dump 310 gigaton of carbon it's still a tiny fraction. Net result: nada.
You first, professor.
“simple mathematical formula”
So write it down for us “perfessor”. Big long article and not so much as an equals, a greater than, or even a simple plus sign. Hell, if you do it with multiplication you won’t even need a times symbol.
All smoke no mirrors.
Mass extinctions occurred hundreds of millions of years apart and suddenly these hysterical imbeciles will predict the next one within a hundred years?
Ummmm.
OK. I suppose it's pointless to try to explain to a normal person what a "moving average" is involving hundreds of millions of years if mathematicians act ignorant about it?
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