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[-] WoodScientist@lemmy.world 0 points 3 hours ago

I'm sorry, but there is no way the first derivative of the atmospheric CO2 concentration with respect to time is faster now than when literally every forest on the planet was burned to ash within a the span of a few hours. I think you're misremembering a half-remembered headline you saw somewhere. A quick google search shows nothing remotely like what you're claiming. If you want to tell me the CO2 concentration is changing faster now than some other CO2-induced mass extinctions, sure, I could believe that. But the asteroid was a massive instantaneous event.

[-] Nonconfrontational@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 hour ago

Listen I'm happy you're so confident, but you're wrong. A simple google search can clear this up for you.

We are changing the temperature and co2 literally ten times faster than the asteroid.

Sorry to be the one to break the bad news to you, lol.

[-] WoodScientist@lemmy.world 1 points 39 minutes ago

"Lol," said the confident fool.

You have extremely poor reading comprehension. The articles you linked do not back up what you claim in the slightest. You don't seem to understand the difference between total change and rate of change. The relevant paragraph from the first article:

Still, even the highest estimated Chicxulub-related CO2 emissions are less than the cumulative, ongoing emissions associated with man-made climate change. Those emissions, the researchers wrote, amount to about 2,000 gigatons of CO2 pumped into the sky since the year 1750. It almost goes without saying at this point that, due to a failure to take meaningful global climate action, man-made emissions are still increasing every year.

So yes, the cumulative effect of centuries worth of CO2 emissions may be greater than the total CO2 released by the asteroid. But we're talking about rate of change, not total change. You're comparing centuries of cumulative CO2 emissions to emissions that were generated over a few hours.

I believe you didn't even read the second article, as it is merely discussing how CO2 rates were higher during the time of the dinosaurs.

Sorry, but you need to learn to read more carefully. Or at least gain an understanding of the difference between change and rate of change. For discussions of adaptation, rate of change is what matters.

You're not just a fool, but a one with hubris.

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