Sunday, January 31, 2016

Quote of the Week - “If you screw with the climate enough, you have huge extinctions.”

Quote of the Week - Scientists who take the long view on climate change see parallels between global warming today and mass extinctions in Earth’s past:  “Apart from the stupid space rock hitting the Earth, most mass extinctions were CO2-driven global warming things,” says Professor Andy Ridgwell of Bristol University in the UK.

It has been a consistent pattern throughout geological time:  “If you screw with the climate enough, you have huge extinctions,” says Ridgwell.

If the world ends in 2100, we’re probably OK' by Howard Lee, Climate Consensus - the 97%, The Guardian, Jan 27, 2016

Read original article at 2016 SkS Weekly Digest #5

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