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

I'll wager the schmuck hasn't been sober in years...

41 posted on 12/10/2018 2:27:02 PM PST by unread (Joe McCarthy was right.......)
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To: cuban leaf

We are starting to enter it, yes.


42 posted on 12/10/2018 2:29:50 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: I want the USA back

Great observation!


43 posted on 12/10/2018 3:00:57 PM PST by griswold3 (Just another unlicensed nonconformist in a dangerous Liberal world.)
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To: cuban leaf

We are, and that scientific fact makes “global warming” all the more ridiculous.

https://www.livescience.com/51597-maunder-minimum-mini-ice-age.html


44 posted on 12/10/2018 3:09:20 PM PST by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Endangered species screwing up your property value?

Now you have plausible deniability to take them out - the beginnings of mass extinction.


45 posted on 12/10/2018 4:06:21 PM PST by fruser1
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To: RitchieAprile

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I trust that this is an attempt at humor?


46 posted on 12/10/2018 5:02:29 PM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Seriously doubting that anyone knows what happened 100 million years ago, let alone 250 million years.


47 posted on 12/10/2018 8:23:55 PM PST by oldtech
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