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Re:We Just Breached the 410 PPM Threshold for CO2 by snowwrestler on Sunday April 23, 2017 @01:25AM (#14176679)
The ecosystem did not survive the Chicxulub event.

"Ecosystem" is not shorthand for "life exists on Earth somewhere." An ecosystem is a particular state of the dependencies between life forms.

The ecosystem that existed before the big asteroid strike was thoroughly and rapidly destroyed; a new ecosystem developed afterward. That's fine from a general "life finds a way" perspective, but it sucked for the sauropods, who went extinct.

EDIT: if you want a sense of why the indirect effects of anthropogenic climate change might be bad, look at the social unrest reacting to a couple million people migrating out of Syria. What do you think it's going to be like when about a billion people have to migrate inland due to sea level rise?

Re:We Just Breached the 410 PPM Threshold for CO2 by Turing_Machine on Sunday April 23, 2017 @09:34AM (#14178092)
By your definition "the ecosystem" never "survives", because it has been in a state of constant change since life first developed on earth.

"What do you think it's going to be like when about a billion people have to migrate inland due to sea level rise?"

Considering that even the worst-case doom-crying scenarios issued by the IPCC predict a sea level increase of the order of 1 meter over the period of a century (i.e., ~1 cm per year), your (and Hollywood's) suggestion of rioting mobs fleeing the tsunami-like rising ocean is just not based in reality.

Re:We Just Breached the 410 PPM Threshold for CO2 by snowwrestler on Sunday April 23, 2017 @03:14PM (#14179859)
Yes, ecosystems change constantly. An ecosystem is a state and the state changes as its components change.

The fact that this is news to you is a clue that perhaps you know less about this subject than you think you do.

Re:We Just Breached the 410 PPM Threshold for CO2 by Turing_Machine on Sunday April 23, 2017 @06:12PM (#14180707)
Now you're just getting nasty, without any substantive response to my assertions.

Hint: that means I won.

You claimed that the ecosystem "didn't survive" the Chicxulub event because there were different organisms afterward. I pointed out that by that "definition" the ecosystem has never "survived", because it has been in a state of constant change since day one.

Rather than responding to this, you just got nasty.

I repeat: I win. Sorry.

Re:We Just Breached the 410 PPM Threshold for CO2 by snowwrestler on Monday April 24, 2017 @02:41AM (#14182355)
I did respond: I said that you are correct that ecosystems are always changing.

The question is, what do those changes mean for individual organisms? Because that's what you and I are.

Changes to the climate and ecosystem are like changes to velocity. Whether the change is good or bad for people depends on the magnitude and direction.

I do think that your focus on who is "winning" an imaginary Internet slap fight is detracting from your understanding.