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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Sure Jan…
(NBC, not you, bro)
Who cares...I hate seafood anyway.
Well, since there’s going to a nuclear holocaust in October I wouldn’t sweat the fish die-off.
May, might, could, etc.
Science, yo!…
So, they seem to have verified that warming is a natural phenomenon that happens once in a while, and then eventually settles back down to a cooler temperature?
But this time it's our fault? And we need to destroy our civilization? Because Why?
Why should we care? AOC and other Scientists have made clear the world ends in like 8 years.
No more BK and Mickey D’s “Fish Sandwiches”? Oh Noes!
Ted Danson told us all the oceans would die in ten years 20 years ago..................
Yup I remember he predicted that back in the 80’s.
Wolf!!!! Really, it’s a wolf!!!
Yea, and their predictions from 20 years ago were we should be underwater by now....
Models are based on ASSUMPTIONS.... change the assumptions and you can create any outcome you wish
It could also cause warming on planets in other solar systems, threatening any life that may be there.
The oceans will be dead in 10 years. - Ted Danson, 1988.
Just more fear mongering.
This is neither science nor even science fiction. Not even soft science fiction. Its not even realistic enough to be fantasy fiction. Its just too jaded and blatantly absurd. Best to categorize it as political porn fantasy for the hopelessly hyper gullible.
No need to worry about that. A different bunch of scaremongers predicts that we’ll all be underwater first.
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