Breaching a “carbon threshold” could lead to mass extinction

Re:Breaching a “carbon threshold” could lead to mass extinction by titzer on Thursday July 11, 2019 @04:00AM (#20409869)

Here's a good start: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1692970/

One of the key points:

(iii) ecosystem diversity and productivity increases over macroevolutionary time as a whole, and after each major extinction event.

That implies that major extinction events do in fact affect ecosystems profoundly, and the ones that emerge successfully have more productivity and diversity.

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Re:Breaching a “carbon threshold” could lead to mass extinction by lisper on Thursday July 11, 2019 @11:08AM (#20412080)

That reference does not support your claim that "ecosystems reproduce" at all. In fact, the paper says the exact opposite: organisms reproduce. Ecosystems do not.

Not even your cherry-picked quote supports your claim. "Ecosystem diversity and productivity increases" is not even remotely the same thing as "ecosystems reproduce."

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Re:Breaching a “carbon threshold” could lead to mass extinction by titzer on Thursday July 11, 2019 @11:55AM (#20412513)

The nature and tone of your replies really doesn't make this all that productive. I could go on to explain, but three nopes in a row is my limit.

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