Posted on 12/10/2018 11:17:36 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
New research shows the way the planet is warming up has staggering similarities to the "Great Dying".
That mass extinction event 250 million years ago nearly ended life on earth. New research out of University of Washington and Stanford determines, for the first time, the cause.
Researchers found that global warming (instead of other factors such as high acidity in the water) was the cause of the Great Dying in the Permian era. Rising temperatures and depleted oxygen levels left animals unable to breath.
Justin Penn and Curtis Deutsch of UW's oceanography department authored the study.
Deutsch said it's a scientific breakthrough. And he calls it very "sobering."
The study ends with a (slightly) optimistic outlook. There's a large difference between the Permian era and modern times: human life.
"We get to choose the degree to which the climate warms up by limiting our greenhouse gas emissions", Deutsch said. "We get to decide how much warming to allow. But it's clear that if you don't check it then marine ecosystems are in trouble."
(Excerpt) Read more at kuow.org ...
But not a second before.
You first...!
I cringe every time I scroll down and see that creep’s picture.
They sound exactly like the old Doomsday prophets. I’m surprised they haven’t set a drop dead date and told everyone to meet on a hill. Give them all your money first because it will just burn up.
Don’t laugh!
Everything will die!
Of course everything will die, regardless of warming or cooling, but this time it’s serious!!!
We’re already in a period of “Great Lying”.
Good.
May Canines inherit the earth.
Another dying off? Humans didn’t learn from the last time they polluted the earth, right?
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250 million years ago in a 6000 year old universe!
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yes but those are Bible years ;-)
And that’s the truth!
Good. The lazy, the dishonest and the dependent will go first.
Its coming from inside the earth
Volcanos and fissures venting methane
Some parts of the Arctic ocean look like a bubbling hot tub
Not the atmosphere
They are implying human activity can heat the oceans by 20 degrees
Last time it was volcanoes
The entire 20th century can be considered “the great dying”.
Meanwhile, in the real solar system, the sun is the 500 gazillion ton gorilla in the room. And if it changes its output - due to sunspots, or the lack thereof - people have zero influence over it.What’s even newer than mankind, is thermometers. Meaning, geologically speaking there’s a lot we don’t know. We try to use proxies, but . . .
The only “Great Dying” is that which is going to occur by the muzzies et al, Rooskies, and anyone else who comes against Israel in these last days.
We get to decide how many humans will be marched in the furnace. No, wait that would cause more carbon emissions. We get to decide how many humans will be marched to the edge of trenches and snuffed out.
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