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We're headed for another 'Great Dying', according to breakthrough UW study
KUOW Public Radio ^ | December 10, 2018 | by Paige Browning

Posted on 12/10/2018 11:17:36 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

New research shows the way the planet is warming up has staggering similarities to the "Great Dying".

That mass extinction event 250 million years ago nearly ended life on earth. New research out of University of Washington and Stanford determines, for the first time, the cause.

Researchers found that global warming (instead of other factors such as high acidity in the water) was the cause of the Great Dying in the Permian era. Rising temperatures and depleted oxygen levels left animals unable to breath.

Justin Penn and Curtis Deutsch of UW's oceanography department authored the study.

Deutsch said it's a scientific breakthrough. And he calls it very "sobering."

The study ends with a (slightly) optimistic outlook. There's a large difference between the Permian era and modern times: human life.

"We get to choose the degree to which the climate warms up by limiting our greenhouse gas emissions", Deutsch said. "We get to decide how much warming to allow. But it's clear that if you don't check it then marine ecosystems are in trouble."

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: fake; fakenews; globalwarming; globalwarmingfraud; hoax; meteor; miniiceage; propaganda; socialism
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1 posted on 12/10/2018 11:17:36 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Liberals first.


2 posted on 12/10/2018 11:18:29 AM PST by PetroniusMaximus (<img src=(;.()))
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

So, the one from 250 million years ago was due to natural causes, but the one that’s coming now (be afraid) is due to man-made causes?


3 posted on 12/10/2018 11:18:52 AM PST by I want the USA back (There are two sexes: male (pronoun HE), and female (pronoun SHE). Denial of this is insanity.)
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>>There’s a large difference between the Permian era and modern times: human life.

So,they admit there was global warming without humans causing it? How can that be.. I thought the science was “settled” /snark


4 posted on 12/10/2018 11:20:12 AM PST by vikingd00d (chown -R us ~u/base)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I thought we were in a rather serious solar minimum. i.e. the risk is cooling, not heating.


5 posted on 12/10/2018 11:21:10 AM PST by cuban leaf
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“Researchers found that global warming (instead of other factors such as high acidity in the water) was the cause of the Great Dying in the Permian era”

Cave man burn too much fossil fuel back then too?


6 posted on 12/10/2018 11:21:10 AM PST by Captain7seas (UNexit. Make America Great Again!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Will I still be able to get the internet?


7 posted on 12/10/2018 11:22:17 AM PST by Leep (we need a Trump like leader for President 2024!)
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To: Captain7seas

I will worry greatly after about 200,000,000 years from now. Until then I will drive, BBQ and burn wood.

We would have 300,000,000 years before we had to start worrying if it were not for the insane ideas of the ecologists.


8 posted on 12/10/2018 11:24:03 AM PST by oldasrocks (rump)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

thank god they’re not being hysterical or anything.


9 posted on 12/10/2018 11:26:12 AM PST by JohnBrowdie
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Maybe we can just tell libs that the end has finally come and theyll all just commit suicide. what a peace would fall over America, after so much hatred and strife, they will finally be gone.


10 posted on 12/10/2018 11:28:03 AM PST by TonytheTiger7777
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the cause of the Great Dying in the Permian era.

Man made of course. Now I understand.

11 posted on 12/10/2018 11:28:10 AM PST by Drango (A liberal's compassion is limited only by the size of someone else's wallet.)
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What about that 2 mile diameter nickle-iron astroid coming out from behind the Sun and due to hit in a few weeks time? Better hurry the BBQ along but no worries about burning wood or gas as it will all burn up after the impact ...


12 posted on 12/10/2018 11:30:23 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: cuban leaf

We are, and it is.

The upcoming cold spell has the potential to kill billions.


13 posted on 12/10/2018 11:30:59 AM PST by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The next Great Dying will be the war between nationalists and globalists.


14 posted on 12/10/2018 11:32:02 AM PST by Rebelbase
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

these false assumptions are always based in the pretentious arrogance of Mankind who assumes that he is not a part of nature, that he is somehow superior and in control of nature.


15 posted on 12/10/2018 11:33:04 AM PST by KTM rider ( .......than to post and remove all doubt)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

More mother Gaia “scientism.”


16 posted on 12/10/2018 11:34:21 AM PST by PGR88
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To: cuban leaf

We are. From what I understand we’ve gone a year without any sun activity.


17 posted on 12/10/2018 11:34:55 AM PST by Bulwyf
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New research shows the way the planet is warming up...

Your Thesis Statement is flawed. Revise and re-submit.

18 posted on 12/10/2018 11:43:14 AM PST by rjsimmon (The Tree of Liberty Thirsts)
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To: cuban leaf
I thought we were in a rather serious solar minimum. i.e. the risk is cooling, not heating.

You're not supposed to notice that. It's inconvenient.

19 posted on 12/10/2018 11:43:22 AM PST by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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>>Researchers found that global warming (instead of other factors such as high acidity in the water) was the cause of the Great Dying in the Permian era. Rising temperatures and depleted oxygen levels left animals unable to breath.<<

If they only would have taxed themselves within an inch of their lives and installed a dictatorship in place of a capitalistic representative republic! They would have survived! (cue Charlton Heston at the Statue of Liberty).


20 posted on 12/10/2018 11:47:25 AM PST by freedumb2003 (As always IMHO)
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