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Carbon in earth’s atmosphere has been measured in old ice. This data shows ice ages and warm periods occur roughly every 100,000 years. We are presently at the top of the latest warm period where carbon content measures around 300 parts per million.
Data recorded at the top of a volcano in the middle of the Pacific Ocean shows a rise in carbon. The rise so dramatic it causes alarm. The data in graphic form shows a regular variation in values for many hundreds of thousands of years. Then in only the last hundred years a rapidly accelerating curve rising above ‘normal’ limits. Present day values now exceed 400 ppm and show no sign of decreasing.
Mass extinctions have occurred in the past. This past measured in hundreds of million years ago. Fossil records show five previous mass extinctions. Some estimates show a correlation between extinction events and carbon levels. Extinctions occurring when carbon levels reach super high levels measured in the thousands of ppm.
A value that current data shows can be reached in 100 years. Let that sink in.
We could be the cause of global catastrophe because of our actions over the last hundred years, a couple of generations of us. Let that sink in.
With the exception of massive nuclear weapons stockpiles, never before in the history of our planet have so few people been able to cause so much global scale destruction. Let that sink in.
The geology of the planet will now be able to show human presence. We are at the beginning of the Anthropocene, the human Epoch. The sixth extinction where 90% of the planet’s species could disappear. Let that sink in.
I sincerely hope we are all wrong.