The Planet Has Seen Sudden Warming Before. It Wiped Out Almost Everything.

[applegrove]

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/07/science/climate-change-mass-extinction.html

Carl Zimmer at the N.Y. Times

"SNIP....

Some 252 million years ago, Earth almost died.

In the oceans, 96 percent of all species became extinct. It’s harder to determine how many terrestrial species vanished, but the loss was comparable.

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Just how much warmer the planet will get is up to us. It will take a tremendous international effort to keep the increase below about 4 degrees Fahrenheit.

If we proceed to use up all the fossil fuels on Earth, it could warm by as much as 17 degrees Fahrenheit by 2300.

As the ocean warms, its oxygen levels will continue to drop. If ancient history is any guide, the consequences for life — especially marine life in the cooler parts of the ocean — will be disastrous.


.....SNIP"

[dalton99a]

1. Great article

[YessirAtsaFact]

2. We're already at the point of international emergency actions

Like spraying massive amounts of dust in the upper atmosphere to reflect some of the suns energy back into space while we get the carbon dioxide under control.

Massive programs to go to non-fossil fuel energy sources quickly.

Unfortunately I don't see the political will anywhere to take this on.

AOC gets it, but she's a freshman congresswoman.

[AZ8theist]

3. Fortunately...

Homo Sapiens will go extinct long before that.

And Mother Earth will survive.

[roamer65]

4. I don't think we deserve this planet.

I think it is best for Planet Earth that we go extinct.

[Luciferous]

5. Yep

[Igel]

6. And still won't reach the

sea water temperatures of the great dying.