Current Events > new study says Earth may look like it did when dinosaurs existed, in 10 years

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https://www.cnn.com/2018/12/10/world/climate-change-pliocene-study/index.html

if this is true, then we are fucked. and the next 10 years will be one wild ass ride.

Yeah, no.
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Fake news
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It's amazing how many of these bullshit studies keep coming out.
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Just in time for genetic dinos
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So more oxygen on the planet then?

Bugs were supersized back then
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So I can ride a trex? Cool
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What do scientists see when comparing our future climate with the past? In less than 200 years, humans have reversed a multimillion-year cooling trend, new research suggests.

If global warming continues unchecked, Earth in 2030 could resemble its former self from 3 million years ago, according to a study published Monday in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences finds.

During that ancient time, known as the mid-Pliocene epoch, temperatures were higher by about 2 to 4 degrees Celsius (3.6 to 7.2 degrees Fahrenheit) and sea levels were higher by roughly 20 meters (almost 66 feet) than today, explained Kevin D. Burke, lead author of the study and a researcher and Ph.D. candidate at the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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The new study is basically "a similarity assessment," Burke said. "We have projections of future climate available for the year 2020, 2030 and so forth." For nearly 30 future decades, then, he and his co-authors drew future-to-past comparisons based on six reference periods.

The reference periods were the Historical, about mid-20th century; the Pre-Industrial, around 1850; the mid-Holocene, about 6,000 years ago; the last Interglacial Period, about 125,000 years ago; the mid-Pliocene, about 3 million years ago; and the early Eocene, about 50 million years ago.

If we continue our current level of greenhouse gas emissions -- what some would say is a "business as usual" scenario -- the overall global climate in 2030 will most closely resemble the overall climate of the mid-Pliocene period, Burke said.

What did Earth look like then? Annual temperatures on average were about 2 to 4 degrees Celsius warmer than today, there was little permanent ice cover in the Northern Hemisphere, and the sea level was about 20 meters higher.

In some places, though, including cities in the United States, temperatures in 2030 would be roughly double the global average.

Burke presented a second scenario: If we continue as we are doing now, "we see that by the year 2150, future climates have an analog [or equivalent] coming from the Eocene, the climate of 50 million years before present."

"Proxies and models tell us that it may have been as much as, globally, on average 13 degrees Celsius [about 23 degrees Fahrenheit] warmer than present," Burke said. "During that time period, there was essentially no permanent ice cover in either of the poles, so sea level would have been much higher as well."

Although the geography and configuration of our continents and oceans were different at that time, there may have been swampy forests "as far north as locations in the Arctic Circle," he said.

Title feels like an oversimplification of what actually is being said here
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I cant wait for that meteor.
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will we evolve fast enough to go big like dinosaur did 200 bilions years ago
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Oldin posted...

will we evolve fast enough to go big like dinosaur did 200 bilions years ago

no

Saving this article so I can look back at it in 10 years.

D-Lo_BrownTown posted...

It's amazing how many of these bullshit studies keep coming out.

What specifically makes it bullshit?
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Well dinosaurs never went entirely extinct.
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If global warming continues unchecked, Earth in 2030 could resemble its former self from 3 million years ago, according to a study published Monday in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences finds.

Dinosaurs are a lot older than 3 million years old lol
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B-b-but this is just a natural warming phase!
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