Plankton could face extinction over the next century (www.techexplorist.com)

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Don't know if this site or its analysis of this study are reliable, this is just something I saw on Twitter. In fact I don't know if the study itself is reliable. I just think it would be morbidly funny if human driven climate changed wiped out enough of the major oxygen producing organisms to cause a reverse Great Oxidation Event.

God talking to humankind:

"Heyy you loving that oxygen? Pretty sweet isn't it? Wanna know how I did it? It's really clever, you're going to love this. See, at the beginning I crafted the rules that underpin everything, yadda yadda yadda, some bacteria in an anaerobic world gain crude photosynthesis and BAM, complex multicellular life is possible. Those godless scientists call it the G-O-E, it even kinda sounds like my name. You must be pretty grateful. I mean, without, you wouldn't exist or be around to ponder the nature of the universe and we wouldn't be talking. Ha ha—

Hey, what the fuck? Don't do that. Do not do that. No. You can't kill those. You cannot kill- well there they fucking go. Now I have to wait another six billion years for complex life to evolve somewhere else. This game sucks. It should be way more hands on. Can we re-enable divine intervention?"

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[-] [email protected] 22 points 7 months ago

If plankton dies so do we

[-] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago

Don't know if this site or its analysis of this study are reliable, this is just something I saw on Twitter. In fact I don't know if the study itself is reliable.

I did a quickie google and I found this...

Researchers Parse the Future of Plankton in an Ever-Warmer World - Yale E360

Published at the Yale School of the Environment

October 14, 2024

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And, in the long term, plankton numbers may plummet as climate change starves them of nutrients. Scientists are now struggling to work out what the net effect will be.

[pull quote] Scientists are shocked by the knowledge gaps. “I always find it surprising how little is known about plankton,” says one expert.

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Rant. It makes me infuriated the the US media doesn't cover this. And when I use Google News - I get shit like this...

How dead stuff at the bottom of the ocean helps slow the pace of climate change

NPR

[-] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago

NPR is simply advancing new frontiers in Barbara Pit science

barbara-pit

[-] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago

well shit runs over for humanity gg wp hopefully the next intelligent species that evolves has their version of the USSR win so this shit doesn't happen, brutal

[-] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

small price to pay to protect Mr. Krabs' margins

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