Posted on 12/03/2015 2:27:53 PM PST by NormsRevenge
As representatives from 195 nations gather in Paris to hammer out a global agreement to slash greenhouse gas emissions, a new study finds that the failure to do so could leave the world gasping for breath.
Marine plants such as phytoplankton are estimated to produce more than half the Earth’s atmospheric oxygen, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. For the study, Sergei Petrovskii, an applied mathematics professor at the University of Leicester in the United Kingdom, calculated how unrestrained global warming could affect phytoplankton and thus the ocean’s ability to generate breathable air. He ran computer models that looked at what would happen to phytoplankton’s ability to photosynthesize under different temperatures.
If the world’s oceans warmed by six degrees Celsius—a realistic possibility if global emissions continue unabated—the tiny plants would halt oxygen production, according to the study published Tuesday in the Bulletin of Mathematical Biology.
By 2100, the Earth at sea level could have atmospheric oxygen levels comparable to the top of Mount Everest today. “And as far as I know people cannot normally stay on Everest without oxygen masks for more than a few minutes,†Petrovskii said.
The threat is one that’s been “mostly overlooked†by climate scientists, Petrovskii said, noting that such a global disaster would come with little notice.
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Can you say We’re Doomed!!! Kids??
I knew you could.
We are all going to die!
In less than 125 years every man, woman and child now living on Earth will be dead! Even the babies!!!
Womyn and minorities will be hardest hit.
Did the report say which world would run out of breathable air? I hope it's not ours..
As an added bonus, the most populous places would be wiped out by the rising ocean levels since most of them are near seacoasts. You think that would make the planet managers happy since there would be fewer mouths to feed and fewer to oppose their cockamamie schemes.
“He ran computer models...”
What a great area of research to be in. All it takes is a reasonably powered computer and some programming skill (or a programmer collaborator) and you can generate data, write papers, go to conferences around the world, and get funded - because you’re working in a politically correct area. If you aren’t getting the data you ‘just know’ are true, you can always tweak the modeling or selectively throw out data points.
Priorities, priorities. We could go nuclear but a waste repository poses an intolerable threat.
The leftists must have watched Spaceballs to come up with this garbage.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but I remember from high school science class that humans emit carbon dioxide, which plants take in, and in turn emit oxygen. It’s all part of that photosynthesis process. I believe.
Nonsense. Pure unadulterated crap.
That way when the planet runs out of air, you can pull out your can of air and literally have the last word,
Public schools are more dangerous to our “life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness” than ANY barbaric, savage, muslim animal.
All liberals to protect Mother Earth, should immediately put plastic garbage bags over their heads and stop producing carbon dioxide.
Liberals are like hysterical women...
Is there a way this effect can be channeled to blue states?
Yeah! Deprive all plant life of CO2 before it’s too late!!!
There are more trees (Oxygen factories) today than there were a century ago. I’ve been looking at a lot of pics of my little town 100 years ago and its a barren landscape compared to the forest it is today.
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