Question for those in the know. Serious question.
So when CO2 does raise really high, along with greenhouse gases, what happens?
Why must we die?
What will actually cause us to die when the earth's temperatures rise (to a temperature that is less than prehistoric times)?
Is it less related to temperature and more related to humans destroying rainforests and ridding the world of things that product oxygen?
I found this when Googling:
"What is clear, and what is beyond dispute, is that we are living in a time of very, very elevated extinction rates, on the order that you would see in a mass extinction,
though a mass extinction might take many thousands of years to play out."
"The link between rapid climate change and human extinction is basically this: the planet becomes
uninhabitable for humans if the average temperature goes up by 4° to 6°C."
So if the temperature rises, the oxygen will disappear and we cannot breathe?
Dinosaurs survived a 10 degree Celsius temperature change...well, there were similar species, but many became extinct from one period to the next (not caused by humans) but still lived and thrived.
Lush subtropical forests grew in polar regions back then and oceans were much higher than today. So maybe these would replace the rainforests in South America that humans are destroying.
So if forests would grow in the polar regions, wouldn't that create more oxygen?
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The other day I heard on the 'farm radio show' that El Niño was causing the ocean temperatures to rise and this happens every 2 to 7 years.
El Niño events are associated with a warming of the central and eastern tropical Pacific, while
La Niña events are the reverse, with a sustained cooling of these same areas. These changes in the Pacific Ocean and its overlying atmosphere occur in a cycle known as the
El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO).
Today's news:
El Niño is dead, scientists declared Thursday. It was 17 months old. The infamous climate pattern defined by warmer-than-average Pacific Ocean water is likely to be succeeded by its cooler kid sister, La Niña.
So I guess the Pacific Ocean is getting ready to cool off and California will be even dryer.