Scientists: What We're Doing To The Earth Has No Parallel In 66 Million Years (washingtonpost.com)

mspohr writes from an article on The Washington Post: We haven't seen this much CO2 added to the atmosphere in 66 million years: "If you look over the entire Cenozoic, the last 66 million years, the only event that we know of at the moment, that has a massive carbon release, and happens over a relatively short period of time, is the Palaeocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM)," says Zeebe. "We actually have to go back to relatively old periods, because in the more recent past, we don't see anything comparable to what humans are currently doing." [New research suggests, even the drama of the PETM falls short of our current period, in at least one key respect: We're putting carbon into the atmosphere at an even faster rate than happened back then.] "The anthropogenic release outpaces carbon release during the most extreme global warming event of the past 66 million years, by at least an order of magnitude," writes Peter Stassen, an Earth and environmental scientist at KU Leuven, in Belgium, in an accompanying commentary on the new study. "Given that the current rate of carbon release is unprecedented throughout the Cenozoic, we have effectively entered an era of a no-analogue state, which represents a fundamental challenge to constraining future climate projections," the study concludes.

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we are #1

[zlives]

just goes to show those dinosaurs really weren't that great, all the wasted effort on museums and such not to mention the captain planets.

 

Re:Questioning isn't "denying"; it's science!

[serviscope_minor]

If you really believe that every university in the world has been somehow "compromised" by some kind of agenda

Oh it totally has. Take it from me: I used to teach software engineering in the engineering department of a very well known university. Ha! Well, I say "software engineering". That was technically the name of the subject and of course advertised to the outside world to keep them in the dark, while I indoctrinated my students.

Let me give you a sampling of the real lecture titles, not the fake ones put on the website:

Promoting Marxism with Object Oriented Programming

Concurrency, Mutexes and Equality of Outcome.

Relational Algebra and The Worker Will Rise.

I would also start each lecture with a rousing chorus of "The People's Flag", and to cement things completely, I would mark the exams with a red pen.

I can promise you there is some truth in what I just wrote.