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Interesting Fact of the Day:
Current climate change is happening at a pace 6.2 times faster than the climate change that resulted from the asteroid impact that killed the dinosaurs.
We have had 1.06 C change in about 150 years. The dinosaurs experienced a 4.5 degree change over 4,000 years. So for the dinosaurs it changed at a pace of 0.001125 C per year for us it has been about .007 degrees per year. So current climate change is happening 6.2x faster than it did during the extinction of the dinosaurs.
@freemo This is phenomenal. Ya, I don't think there is a chance we can hit the breaks on this. I found this the most interesting aspect of temperature increase. Unless we develop a mobile rebreather we won't survive the hydrogen sulfide environment naturally generated by ocean bacteria in warmer waters (obvious result of climate change).
"Once the oxygen is gone, the oceans become the realm of bacteria that obtain their oxygen from sulfur oxide compounds. These bacteria strip oxygen from the compounds and produce hydrogen sulfide. Hydrogen sulfide kills aerobic organisms.
Humans can smell hydrogen sulfide gas, the smell of rotten cabbage, in the parts per trillion range. In the deeps of the Black Sea today, hydrogen sulfide exists at about 200 parts per million. This is a toxic brew in which any aerobic, oxygen-needing organism would die. For the Black Sea, the hydrogen sulfide stays in the depths because our rich oxygen atmosphere mixes in the top layer of water and controls the diffusion of hydrogen sulfide upwards."
-from article
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/02/050223130549.htm
Here is a small occurrence which I think heard is seasonal. This is the most recent event. experienced in San Diego, Ca. USA
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-05-12/rotting-stench-replaces-blue-flash-as-red-tide-sweeps-california-coast
@EVoCeO If we stopped all pollution and carbon loading 100% tomorrow, I think we would avoid most of the effects long term.
Not saying that is practical but the point is I do feel it is avoidable given humans take the right steps quickly enough.
The reason I agree with you in that it isnt likely to be stopped is because I do not think humans will take the steps needed, its just too drastic in most peoples minds I guess.