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Earth May Be Close to 'Threshold of Catastrophe'
livescience.com ^ | Oct. 2, 2017 | Tia Ghose, Senior Writer

Posted on 10/04/2017 3:17:22 PM PDT by PROCON


The amount of carbon dioxide that humans will have released into the atmosphere by 2100 may be enough to trigger a sixth mass extinction, a new study suggests.

The huge spike in CO2 levels over the past century may put the world dangerously close to a "threshold of catastrophe," after which environmental instability and mass die-offs become inevitable, the new mathematical analysis finds.

Even if a mass extinction is in the cards, however, it likely wouldn't be evident immediately. Rather, the process could take 10,000 years to play out, said study co-author Daniel Rothman, a geophysicist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. [7 Iconic Animals Humans Are Driving to Extinction

However, slashing carbon emissions dramatically in the coming years may also be enough to prevent such global catastrophe, said Lee Kump, a geoscientist at Pennsylvania State University who was not involved in the study.

Carbon and death

Over Earth's 4.5-billion-year history, life has seen a lot of boom and bust times. In the past half-billion years alone, five major extinctions have wiped out huge swaths of life: the Ordovician-Silurian mass extinction, the Late Devonian mass extinction, the Permian mass extinction, the Triassic-Jurassic mass extinction and the Cretaceous-Tertiary mass extinction that wiped out the dinosaurs. The most severe was the Permian extinction, or "The Great Dying," when over 95 percent of marine life and 70 percent of land-based life died off.

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TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Society; Weather
KEYWORDS: catastrophe; climatesciencefraud; co2; globalwarming
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Oh great, I just retired a few years ago and now, of course, here comes a catastrophe...

Rather, the process could take 10,000 years to play out...

Oh, never mind.

1 posted on 10/04/2017 3:17:22 PM PDT by PROCON
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To: PROCON

Outstanding! Can’t wait! Hopefully it happens tomorrow, no, TONIGHT!


2 posted on 10/04/2017 3:20:37 PM PDT by chris37 (Tagline is currently under repair!)
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To: PROCON

Complete and Utter Bull Sh!t

CO2 is plant food.
More CO2, more plants.
Formerly arid places are greening up.

Meteors cause mass extinctions.


3 posted on 10/04/2017 3:20:59 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents - Know Islam, No Peace -No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: PROCON

Carbon and Death and Taxes; The Socialist Trifecta.

I’m gonna LIVE until I DIE!

Screw the, ‘Nattering Neighbobs of Negativity!’


4 posted on 10/04/2017 3:21:14 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set!)
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To: PROCON

I used to live 400 feet under the ocean for months at a time in total comfort, and often went much deeper than that by just operating a few controls. I think man can handle a couple degrees of temperature increase, even if we have to give up our beach house.


5 posted on 10/04/2017 3:21:24 PM PDT by Bryanw92 (Asking a pro athlete for political advice is like asking a cavalry horse for tactical advice.)
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To: PROCON

Is this jerk of an author talking about the air I breathe every day which contains carbon dioxide that we all breathe in and breathe out more of? What about all the carbon in our bodies?

The way they talk about carbon you think it was arsenic.


6 posted on 10/04/2017 3:21:34 PM PDT by WMarshal (President Trump, a president keeping his promises to the American people. It feels like winning.)
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To: PROCON

CO2 IS PLANT FOOD …WITHOUT IT WE DIE!


7 posted on 10/04/2017 3:22:10 PM PDT by Shady (We WON the Battle, Now let's WIN THE WAR!!!!)
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To: PROCON
Don't forget methane!


8 posted on 10/04/2017 3:23:50 PM PDT by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: PROCON

In the atmosphere, only four out of every ten thousand particles is carbon dioxide.


9 posted on 10/04/2017 3:24:22 PM PDT by odawg
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To: WMarshal
You notice most of the media refer to Carbon Dioxide, CO2, as 'Carbon' and Carbon pollution.

If they referred to it as carbon dioxide each time, even the dumbest of liberals might catch on to the hoax.

10 posted on 10/04/2017 3:25:49 PM PDT by PROCON (#MAGA)
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To: PROCON

” may be enough to trigger a sixth mass extinction, a new study suggests.”

May?

Always that wiggle room.


11 posted on 10/04/2017 3:26:34 PM PDT by VanDeKoik
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To: PROCON

Clutch the pearls.
Yet another doomsday cult
making prophecy


12 posted on 10/04/2017 3:27:06 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Did Barack Obama denounce Communism and dictatorships when he visited Cuba as a puppet of the State?)
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To: PROCON

>>Even if a mass extinction is in the cards, however, it likely wouldn’t be evident immediately.<<

But it will hit women and minorities hardest.


13 posted on 10/04/2017 3:27:31 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (Prayers for Las Vegas)
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To: freedumb2003

What... no mention of “White Privilege”?


14 posted on 10/04/2017 3:29:09 PM PDT by Autonomous User (During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.)
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To: PROCON

All of this based on Models that use False and Fraudulent Data.


15 posted on 10/04/2017 3:29:12 PM PDT by eyeamok (Idle hands are the Devil's workshop)
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To: VanDeKoik

“The amount of carbon dioxide that humans will have released into the atmosphere by 2100 may be enough to trigger a sixth mass extinction”

Isn’t that what they want? Humans are bad. The world would be better off without us. I would think libs would embrace this.


16 posted on 10/04/2017 3:31:11 PM PDT by MPJackal ("From my cold dead hands.")
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To: Autonomous User

>>What... no mention of “White Privilege”?<<

I thought we weren’t supposed to talk about the A Ark in public.


17 posted on 10/04/2017 3:31:46 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (Prayers for Las Vegas)
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To: VanDeKoik

How can you question this — The report suggests that it may happen. What more proof do deniers want or expect? /s


18 posted on 10/04/2017 3:33:17 PM PDT by Bob (Damn, the democrats haven't been this upset since Republicans freed their slaves.)
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To: chris37

The trees and grass will grow so fast it will suffocate all human life as we know it, liberal and conservative alike. It will spare no one, not even transgender.

A holocaust I tell you!


19 posted on 10/04/2017 3:33:19 PM PDT by wetgundog (Mainstream Media, Lying Liars Lying.)
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To: Lurkinanloomin
So the CO2 feeds plants, and the plants get uppitdy, and suddenly you get....


20 posted on 10/04/2017 3:33:56 PM PDT by DannyTN
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