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[-] Nonconfrontational@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 hours 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 0 points 4 hours 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.

[-] Nonconfrontational@lemmy.ml 1 points 23 minutes ago* (last edited 8 minutes ago)

Lmao. So. fucking. Confident.

Climate scientists warn that over the next century, the rate of change will be 10 times faster than any climate pattern that unfolded in the last 65 million years.

Over the last 60 years, the annual rate of increase in atmospheric CO2 has been 100 times faster than the relatively recent natural increases that took place around 17,000 years ago at the end of the last ice age. In 2021, the global average concentration of CO2 hit its highest recorded level of 414.72 ppm.

“This is similar to the rate of change that occurred around 202 million years ago, after gigantic volcanic eruptions and also, after asteroid impacts that triggered the fifth mass extinction event around 66 million years ago,” Olsen added.

“The rate of change that we are experiencing today because of human-driven greenhouse gas emissions is among the very highest that the Earth has ever seen,” said Olsen. “Higher levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere are normal states for our planet. Our current lower state is unusual. Yet, it is this rate of change that is the most important.”

Also check out The Fate of the World: A History and Future of the Climate Crisis by Bill McGuire. More recent and stark.

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