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cstanleytech

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9. Unless its a drastic change which raises the carbon dioxide levels and or lowers

Reply to Pacifist Patriot (Reply #7)

Tue Dec 10, 2019, 03:28 PM

Dec 2019

lowers the oxygen levels to a level that would render it impossible for us to breath that is not likely to happen any time soon as unlike 99.9% of the other species we have the ability to problem solve and thus can probably compensate enough to survive as a species.
Our species might even be able to survive a snowball earth scenario for a time if we had time to prepare shelters but of course in the long run no matter what happens our species will eventually go extinct as no species lives forever.

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The Arctic may have crossed key threshold, emitting billions of tons of carbon into the air, in a lo [View all] mahatmakanejeeves Dec 2019 OP

While expected, it still gives saidsimplesimon Dec 2019 #1

Same here. For people who care deeply about the environment this recent barrage of Mike 03 Dec 2019 #6

NOAA Arctic Report Card Eugene Dec 2019 #2

Thanks. I think the WaPo will add the link too. From the Associated Press: mahatmakanejeeves Dec 2019 #8

tRump hasn't squelched this report? groundloop Dec 2019 #3

It has been accelerating... Newest Reality Dec 2019 #4

Its concerning but I would hardly called it dreaded. After all both polar regions of the world have cstanleytech Dec 2019 #5

I think those last five words may be what gives some people a wee sense of alarm. Pacifist Patriot Dec 2019 #7

Unless its a drastic change which raises the carbon dioxide levels and or lowers cstanleytech Dec 2019 #9

Our species may survive, but our technologically advanced civilization may not NickB79 Dec 2019 #12

On average, world's oceans have lost 2% of oxygen content since the 1950s; some areas far worse hatrack Dec 2019 #13

You're conflating geological scale w/ human scale. LanternWaste Dec 2019 #10

Deniers will have their day, too. Muriel Dec 2019 #11

It's not climate change jeffreyi Dec 2019 #14

I remember reading an article in Scientific American Haggis for Breakfast Dec 2019 #15

I bet the human population is only 1 billion by 2100. roamer65 Dec 2019 #16

Anti-science head-in-the-sand president will be long remembered as the last man who could have truthisfreedom Dec 2019 #17