That’s a heck of a thing, eh? This could be interesting
Around 252 million years ago, life on Earth suffered its most catastrophic blow to date: a mass extinction event known as the “Great Dying” that wiped out around 90% of life.
What followed has long puzzled scientists. The planet became lethally hot and remained so for 5 million years.
A team of international researchers say they have now figured out why using a vast trove of fossils — and it all revolves around tropical forests.
Their findings, published Wednesday in the journal Nature Communications, may help solve a mystery, but they also spell out a dire warning for the future as humans continue to heat up the planet by burning fossil fuels.
Good grief. This could be a very interesting story on new scientific discoveries, but, no, CNN had to go climate cult by the 4th paragraph.
Michael Benton, a professor of paleontology at the University of Bristol, who was not involved in the study, said the research shows “the absence of forests really impacts the regular oxygen-carbon cycles and suppresses carbon burial and so high levels of CO2 remain in the atmosphere over prolonged periods,” he told CNN.
It highlights “a threshold effect,” he added, where the loss of forests becomes “irreversible on ecological time scales.” Global politics currently revolve around the idea that if carbon dioxide levels can be controlled, damage can be reversed. “But at the threshold, it then becomes hard for life to recover,” Benton said.
This is a key takeaway from the study, Mills said. It shows what might happen if rapid global warming causes the planet’s rainforests to collapse in the future — a tipping point scientists are very concerned about.
It just goes to show that the climate cult has taken over legitimate science.
I followed the link to the cited article, because I wanted to see how “lethally hot” was defined, and my not-very-surprised eyes failed to see a single reference to tell us what “lethally hot” was in any measurable terms.
I did find this, though:
Translation: f(ornicate) doing anything and wasting money on the left’s cockamamie schemes; if the earth warms, we’ll deal with it as it happens, as human being have always done.
Certainly, the Nature Communications article didn’t mention human-caused global warming, only some journalist did.
The journalist was saying IF the Earth’s forests succumb to warming today, we’re fucked regardless of CO2 reduction efforts. That’s not new.
Btw, Mr trump is ending all global warming remediation expenditures and our economy is the weakest since he was 45.
It highlights “a threshold effect,” he added, where the loss of forests becomes “irreversible on ecological time scales.” Global politics currently revolve around the idea that if carbon dioxide levels can be controlled, damage can be reversed. “But at the threshold, it then becomes hard for life to recover,” Benton said.
There was a time when geologically speaking in the not-so-distant past the poles were lush rain forests. Co2 was 1200-1500 PPM and the earth was thriving and growing exponentially.
Life on this planet is meant to thrive in a hot rather than frigid environment. Sorry people have built their homes on 1 meter high islands in the middle of the oceans. Sorry people have spent a fortune building next to eroding sea shores.
In the end. The cutting of rain forests is not a problem if YOU REPLANT. If you do not…it will become a problem as the world enters into a situation where it cannot recover and co2 continues to rise..blamed on fossil fuels, by people who have invested billions into failed alternative energy processes. See Musk throwing a temper tantrum because the subsidies on his Teslas(and all electric vehicles) are being yanked by the new bill worming its way through Congress.
Everyone who critically thinks through the evolution of our planet knows these things. It is the cult of EcoNazism that refuses to critically think because someone with an agenda is paying them to create mass worldwide anarchy so that the global elites can run everything from their compounds in Switzerland or New Zealand.
The Earth’s warming will affect only the most vulnerable of humans, those that are now struggling just to survive. Of all the races, whites will be least affected. That may or may not affect people who post here. The possibility of empathy can easily be offset by buying new consumer items