Posted on 04/29/2022 5:32:29 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Marine animals could die off at a level rivaling the biggest mass extinctions in geologic history if people don’t curb greenhouse gas emissions.
That’s the takeaway from a study published Thursday in the journal Science, which found that many ocean creatures could face conditions too warm and with too little oxygen to survive if we don't turn things around. The more warming, the fewer species are likely to survive, the results show.
The new analysis applies what the research team previously learned about the "Great Dying" 252 million years ago — when more than two-thirds of all marine life in the Permian Period went extinct — as well as other historic extinctions to today’s climate projections. Under a high emissions scenario, the results were disturbing.
The new models suggest Earth could approach Permian levels of marine extinction by 2300 if emissions continue to increase.
Previous work from the team behind the new analysis revealed runaway global warming and a loss of oxygen in the ocean to be the causes of the Great Dying. Their model’s results matched patterns paleontologists had observed in Permian fossil records, giving it credibility.
Scientists knew from prior studies of fossilized teeth that surface temperatures during this period soared about 10 degrees Celsius in the tropics, leading many sea animals to go extinct. The researchers suspected volcanic eruptions triggered the changes, so they modeled those conditions.
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Most humans are pre-programmed to worry.
Thus it is an easy sell for someone in authority to convince the masses that something terrible is going to happen if we don’t do something.
A minority of people will bother to question authority and do their own research.
And puppies! And kittens! And..
“The academic community has in it the biggest concentration of alarmists, cranks and extremists this side of the giggle house.”
— William F. Buckley Jr.
“There are some ideas so preposterous, only an intellectual could believe them.”
— George Orwell
“Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.”
—Voltaire
giant crawfish boil i am in
They said that in the 60’s.
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