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 ...
I'll wager the schmuck hasn't been sober in years...
We are starting to enter it, yes.
Great observation!
We are, and that scientific fact makes “global warming” all the more ridiculous.
https://www.livescience.com/51597-maunder-minimum-mini-ice-age.html
Endangered species screwing up your property value?
Now you have plausible deniability to take them out - the beginnings of mass extinction.
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I trust that this is an attempt at humor?
Seriously doubting that anyone knows what happened 100 million years ago, let alone 250 million years.
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