give her time my friend.
She's into slow burns.
There is little doubt that climate change is accelerating, but I just don't see a temperature mark being hit that suddenly kills us all off.
Lol no I don't even have that much.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2014/02/11/there-have-been-five-mass-extinctions-in-earths-history-now-were-facing-a-sixth/?utm_term=.3adc32e9d283
According to climate science deniers, the above chart would mean that extinction events happen all the time and are natural. So, go back to watching Family Guy.
The causes are different. but yes, until now, the events all happened due to non-man made events.
In the worst, the end-Permian,
The worst mass extinction of all time came about 250 million years ago [the Permian-Triassic extinction event]. There's a pretty good consensus there that this was caused by a huge volcanic event that went on for a long time and released a lot of carbon-dioxide into the atmosphere. That is pretty ominous considering that we are releasing a lot of CO2 into the atmosphere and people increasingly are drawing parallels between the two events.
One thing we do know from studies of past events is that the big die offs go quickly with quick changes in, you guessed it, climate change. The case for us at the cusp of the next great die-off is plausible.
Is anybody plugging ten more years to live into their retirement calculator to see if they have enough to live on until the end and so can retire?
From what I understand, global temperature mark isn't the direct cause of die-offs. In the end-Permian event, CO2 and sulfur from volcanoes triggered ocean acidification and too-fast ocean temperature rise. Even so, if the change had been slower, it would have been OK. Rapid change broke biological systems meant to work at lower temperatures and species began to die-off in a runaway event. Fewer live animals, lots of dead ones led to methane and sulfur build-up in the water, more animals died, etc. Once oceans died off the oxygen ppm dropped in the atmosphere, acid rain, methane build-up caused plants to die off and with them the animals that depend on them. Somewhere between 70% and 96% of all animal species on earth died off in that one. It is plausible that we've already created the runaway conditions similar to this event.
True, this. Not so much the massive fireball but contribution to global warming, is what I've read.
well. nice knowing ya.
i think this thought leads to defeatist attitudes and does more damage where we need repair.
I wish we had met in better times.
Climate deniers are already saying this too. One side of their mouth, they say "it's not happening" and from the other side they say "it's already too late."
hopefully the future but i wouldn't want to be from the past. to visit would be awesome. or have a pre colonial hideaway.
The Hamptons aren't a defensible position.
