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 When the volcanic eruptions in the Siberian Traps occurred it triggered the Permian Extinction. Over 80% of marine species went extinct. Over 70% of land species went extinct. CO2 levels today are climbing to those levels. The oil industry is funding fascism because they possess the best climate forecasters and know what's coming. 5 comments
 I completely agree with your summary. However, not being an environmental scientist and they stating that at this point cannot determine the direction in which this is going, I don't dare to contradict: "But whether they would warm, or cool, the Earth is unknown... ... committed ourselves to.” What really gives me headaches: "The murk of anthropogenic aerosols in the sky has, overall, had a dramatic cooling effect since the Industrial Revolution (without them, *global warming would be 30 to 50 per cent greater than it is today*). And they have more sway on extreme weather than greenhouse gases do: a world warmed by removing aerosols would have more floods and droughts, for example, than a world warmed the same... "...amount by CO2." So, in fact, without the offsetting effect of aerosols, we could already be competing with #Dune to be the new habitat for #sandworms. If airborne microplastics were to solve our #GlobalWarming problems in the same way, this would just be an irony of fate, undeservedly so, I must say. ;) Source: https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2023/03/14/Microplastics-Sky-Climate-Change/ |
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Oh, not only, they knew: https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/109732299947236010
The only thing no-one knows absolutely nothing about regarding its climate impact are the #microplastics in the sky:
https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2023/03/14/Microplastics-Sky-Climate-Change/