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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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KEYWORDS: fake; fakenews; globalwarming; globalwarmingfraud; hoax; meteor; miniiceage; propaganda; socialism
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
When algore sells his Malibu beachfront mansion I'll start taking "climate change" seriously.

But not a second before.

21 posted on 12/10/2018 11:51:43 AM PST by Gay State Conservative (I've Never Owned Slaves...You've Never Picked Cotton.End Of "Discussion".)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Got to pull a Thanos and kill off half the population of everything so the other half can live!

You first...!

22 posted on 12/10/2018 11:52:32 AM PST by Dubh_Ghlase
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I cringe every time I scroll down and see that creep’s picture.


23 posted on 12/10/2018 11:56:59 AM PST by avenir ("But as for you, teach what accords with sound doctrine."--Paul to Titus)
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To: Leep

They sound exactly like the old Doomsday prophets. I’m surprised they haven’t set a drop dead date and told everyone to meet on a hill. Give them all your money first because it will just burn up.


24 posted on 12/10/2018 11:59:39 AM PST by AppyPappy (How many fingers am I holding up, Winston?)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

25 posted on 12/10/2018 12:08:53 PM PST by seawolf101 (Member LES DEPLORABLES)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Don’t laugh!

Everything will die!

Of course everything will die, regardless of warming or cooling, but this time it’s serious!!!


26 posted on 12/10/2018 12:09:26 PM PST by PTBAA
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

We’re already in a period of “Great Lying”.


27 posted on 12/10/2018 12:10:38 PM PST by PTBAA
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Good.

May Canines inherit the earth.


28 posted on 12/10/2018 12:12:41 PM PST by chris37
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Another dying off? Humans didn’t learn from the last time they polluted the earth, right?


29 posted on 12/10/2018 12:32:23 PM PST by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know. how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

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250 million years ago in a 6000 year old universe!
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30 posted on 12/10/2018 12:33:51 PM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: editor-surveyor

yes but those are Bible years ;-)


31 posted on 12/10/2018 12:35:45 PM PST by RitchieAprile
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To: Windflier

And that’s the truth!


32 posted on 12/10/2018 12:37:32 PM PST by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: PetroniusMaximus
New research shows the way the planet is warming up has staggering similarities to the "Great Dying".

Good. The lazy, the dishonest and the dependent will go first.

33 posted on 12/10/2018 1:04:26 PM PST by Fightin Whitey
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Its coming from inside the earth
Volcanos and fissures venting methane
Some parts of the Arctic ocean look like a bubbling hot tub
Not the atmosphere


34 posted on 12/10/2018 1:07:01 PM PST by silverleaf (A man who kneels for the national anthem doesn't stand for much of anything)
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To: I want the USA back

They are implying human activity can heat the oceans by 20 degrees
Last time it was volcanoes


35 posted on 12/10/2018 1:08:28 PM PST by silverleaf (A man who kneels for the national anthem doesn't stand for much of anything)
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To: bgill
History does show a cycle of catastrophic and sudden change ( from whatever cause) occurring about every 600,000 years, and we are overdue
36 posted on 12/10/2018 1:11:45 PM PST by silverleaf (A man who kneels for the national anthem doesn't stand for much of anything)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The entire 20th century can be considered “the great dying”.


37 posted on 12/10/2018 1:35:34 PM PST by 353FMG
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Meanwhile, in the real solar system, the sun is the 500 gazillion ton gorilla in the room. And if it changes its output - due to sunspots, or the lack thereof - people have zero influence over it.

What’s even newer than mankind, is thermometers. Meaning, geologically speaking there’s a lot we don’t know. We try to use proxies, but . . .


38 posted on 12/10/2018 1:44:00 PM PST by conservatism_IS_compassion
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The only “Great Dying” is that which is going to occur by the muzzies et al, Rooskies, and anyone else who comes against Israel in these last days.


39 posted on 12/10/2018 1:48:07 PM PST by PeteePie (Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people - Proverbs 14:34)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
"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."

We get to decide how many humans will be marched in the furnace. No, wait that would cause more carbon emissions. We get to decide how many humans will be marched to the edge of trenches and snuffed out.

40 posted on 12/10/2018 2:22:12 PM PST by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken)
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