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The average daily global sea surface temperature beat a 2016 record this week, according to the EU’s climate change service Copernicus.
It reached 20.96C. That’s far above the average for this time of year.
No it will not. There is absolutely zero evidence of that, and if anything, the ocean warming levels point to the contrary. It can just as easily spiral into the opposite direction and create a greenhouse style system like you see on Venus. Even if we died today, biodiversity levels would take millions of years to get back to pre-industrial levels.
So you agree.
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@MercuryUprising @BillyTheMountain
Somebody needs to watch this … https://www.whattowatch.com/watching-guides/earth-documentary-release-date-episode-guide-interview-and-everything-we-know
It’s a great show, I’ve seen it. The problem is the rate of ocean acidification is unprecedented at this speed in our geological history, and that our current level hasn’t been hit in 300 million years, and we’re still trucking. This could create an irreversible change.
The other thing to factor in is this will be it for intelligent life. We won’t get another chance at a species progressing the way we did because much of the world’s easily accessible oil has been used up.
@MercuryUprising
No previous life form based its expansion on oil like we did. And no previous life, in its unfathomable diversity, was even close to prior ones in shape, form or ability.
Why would you think that a future intelligent form would turn out like us and base its existence on fossil fuels?
Basic evolutionary and technological processes, I guess. Combustible fuels are the simplest step a species can take.
@MercuryUprising
Since every evolutionary era, when devastation then a rise of life occured, the new life forms were more advanced than the previous.
It’s likely that whatever life develops after we’re gone will find more ecologically-sound ways to progress than we did. And that’s a good thing, cause we were for shit at it.
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“No it will not. There is absolutely zero evidence of that …”
Wrong. There is lots of evidence of that through the geological record.
The evidence in the geological record shows that this level of ocean acidification has never been hit this quickly before. This level of ocean acidificaion is the highest its been in 300 million years and there is nothing indicating it has any intention of going down.
@MercuryUprising
The oceans have healed before and are far more capable of that than you seem to think.
Will it take millions of years? Ofc it will. But it will happen, because as long as there is one single-celled organism that survives our self-immolation it will grow and produce and evolve.