Canadian permafrost thaws 70 years earlier than predicted

Re:Canadian permafrost thaws 70 years earlier than predicted by akvadrako on Tuesday June 18, 2019 @05:29PM (#20218641)

1) You'll notice I didn't put nuclear war in my list of existential threats. That's because it also will likely not cause human extinction.

2) We are probably already in a mass extinction event. That also has little change of causing human extinction - we're the most adaptable species this planet has ever seen.

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Re:Canadian permafrost thaws 70 years earlier than predicted by jbay808 on Tuesday June 18, 2019 @05:45PM (#20218781)

Did you read the article I linked? It's not talking about the extinction of rhinos, tigers and polar bears. It's talking about the mechanics of the end-Permian mass extinction. To quote Wikipedia:

"known colloquially as the Great Dying... approximately 252 million years ago. It is the Earth's most severe known extinction event, with up to 96% of all marine species and 70% of terrestrial vertebrate species becoming extinct."

Seriously, it's a good article and quite short. I think you'd find it interesting food for thought and I'm honestly interested to hear your response to it, not some cheap dismissals.

Edit: if you really don't have time to read the whole thing, at least let me know what you think of the figure on page 6

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