The truth is: Climate change is a reality and it will have an effect on us all! Are Humans Going Extinct (Yes, within 15 years): Scientist Guy McPherson — We could experience 6ºC temperature rise in span of a decade. So, its hard for me to imagine we make it into the 2030s as a species. Once the summer ice begins melting, methane releases will worsen dramatically. We are likely to begin seeing periods of an ice-free Arctic by as soon as this coming summer, or the summer of 2016 at the latest. We are currently in the midst of what most scientists consider the sixth mass extinction in planetary history, with between 150 and 200 species going extinct daily — a pace 1,000 times greater than the natural or background extinction rate. Our current extinction event is already greatly exceeding the speed, and might eventually even exceed the intensity, of the Permian mass extinction event. The difference is that ours is human caused, isnt going to take 80,000 years, has so far lasted just a few centuries and is now gaining speed in a nonlinear fashion. As McPherson has told Truthout: Weve never been here as a species, and the implications are truly dire and profound for our species and the rest of the living planet. He told Truthout that he believes that near-term human extinction could eventually result from losing the Arctic sea ice, which is one of the 40 self-reinforcing feedback loops of ACD. A world without Arctic ice will be completely new to humans, he said. Read more: truth-out.org/…/i…/27714-are-humans-going-extinct
Posted on: Tue, 27 Jan 2015 11:16:24 +0000
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