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In reply to the discussion: US Navy 'Game-Changer': Converting Seawater into Fuel [View all]bemildred
(90,061 posts)And with models correlations is what you are looking for, that they somewhat agree with the facts. The higher "somewhat" is, the better the model. The fact is that climate is changing and we fuck with it at our peril, and we are fucking with it.
Did you know the Sun is getting hotter, and we have almost run out of room to pull CO2 out of the air too cool the Earth off? That's the real problem. There is very little CO2 left, and the plants need it. We are going to have to find another way to cool the planet. We are on the inside edge of the habitable zone as it is.
Meanwhile, the increased heat is causing massive releases of methane into the air, which is a couple orders of magnitude stronger as a greenhouse gas, which results in even more CO2 when it oxydizes, and which sucks Oxygen from the air in the process. How do you feel about living at, say, 6000 ft all the time?
There are several theories that propose that the Permian-Triassic extinction, the one that got 90% of the species on the planet, was caused by massive methane releases, and that is happening now.