GREENIE WATCHEarth May Be Close to Threshold of CatastropheAnd it may be close to turning into a second garden of Eden. About 2 degrees of global warming would move us towards that. Much of the earth is too cold at the moment. More stupid speculation below. But its a speculation about what will happen thousands of years in the future so it is safe from falsification. The amount of carbon dioxide that humans will have released into the atmosphere by 2. Centropy&bm=normal&ba=bottom%2Cleft&blend64=aHR0cHM6Ly91cGxvYWRzLmd1aW0uY28udWsvMjAxNi8wNS8yNS9vdmVybGF5LWxvZ28tMTIwMC05MF9vcHQucG5n&s=b4034c04778d9ecf72a48090f0ba3ed8' alt='Watch Let`S Pollute ' title='Watch Let`S Pollute ' />The latter is considered a major boon, as with cellular support the new Apple Watch will not need a phone in order to pull off crucial smartwatch tasks like texts. The huge spike in CO2 levels over the past century may put the world dangerously close to a threshold of catastrophe, after which environmental instability and mass die offs become inevitable, the new mathematical analysis finds. Even if a mass extinction is in the cards, however, it likely wouldnt be evident immediately. Rather, the process could take 1. Daniel Rothman, a geophysicist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. However, slashing carbon emissions dramatically in the coming years may also be enough to prevent such global catastrophe, said Lee Kump, a geoscientist at Pennsylvania State University who was not involved in the study. Carbon and death. Over Earths 4. 5 billion year history, life has seen a lot of boom and bust times. In the past half billion years alone, five major extinctions have wiped out huge swaths of life the Ordovician Silurian mass extinction, the Late Devonian mass extinction, the Permian mass extinction, the Triassic Jurassic mass extinction and the Cretaceous Tertiary mass extinction that wiped out the dinosaurs. The most severe was the Permian extinction, or The Great Dying, when over 9. All these major extinctions have one similarity. Every time theres been a major mass extinction one of the big five theres been a serious disruption of the global carbon cycle, Rothman said. It could be a direct link between CO2 and death due ocean acidification or an indirect link, as carbon dioxide emissions can warm a planet to unlivable temperatures and have even been linked with volcanic eruptions and the related cooling of the atmosphere. For instance, at the end of the Permian period, about 2. Carbon dioxide that is in the air gradually dissolves into the oceans surface and eventually enters the deep ocean. However, carbon doesnt always equal assured doom for the planet. Its possible that a change in carbon levels in the atmosphere and oceans are markers for rapid environmental change, which could be the underlying cause of extinctions. In addition, rocks from the past reveal many other carbon excursions or rises in atmospheric or ocean levels of carbon that did not result in mass extinctions, Rothman said. Fast time and slow time. Ive known about Hoonigan Racing, Ken Blocks motorsport team that competes in FIA World Rallycross as a Ford factory backed team. I even saw them compete at. Now diesel drivers face new pay as you pollute charges Plans could see motorists billed if they go near schools or take to the roads in rush hour. Little Lego engines with actual pistons and crankshafts that turn and move are one of the true simple joys of human life in the modern era. So, it just stands to. Everybody can be great because everybody can serve. You only need a heart full of grace. On 4 February 1968, Martin Luther King, Jr. The Drum. UK Now wood burning stoves could be banned by radical new laws aiming to reduce air pollution in urban areas And yet the national government has just converted one. This is a suggested email letter and links for introducing people, organizations, and groups to the climate engineering issue. Click any of the following file types. So what distinguishes the deadly carbon excursions from the ones that dont cause mass dying In the new study, which was published Sept. Science Advances, the scientists assumed that two factors may play a role the rate at which carbon levels increase, and the total amount of time that change is sustained, Rothman said. To calculate those values, Rothman looked at data on carbon isotopes, or versions of the element with differing numbers of neutrons, from rock samples from 3. Determining the length and magnitude of rises in atmospheric carbon can be tricky because some periods have thorough rock samples while others are sparsely represented, Rothman said. From that data, Rothman and his colleagues identified the rates of carbon change and total carbon input that seemed to be correlated to extinctions in the geologic record. Millions of pieces of space junk swarm around the Earths upper atmosphere. Then, they extrapolated to the present day, in which humans are adding carbon to the atmosphere at a furious rate. Rothman calculated that adding about 3. Rothman said. Most every scenario thats been studied for how things will play out, as far as emissions are concerned, suggest on the order of 3. Rothman said. What happens the day after that threshold is reachedWe run the risk of a series of positive feedbacks in which mass extinction could conceivably be the result, Rothman said. Of course, those effects wouldnt be felt immediately it could take 1. And theres a lot of uncertainty in the estimates, Rothman added. I think its a really useful approach, but there are always limitations when were working in deep time, Kump told Live Science. One of the limitations is that Rothman had to accept the state of our understanding of the timing and duration of these disturbances. But even with that uncertainty, clearly the rate of fossil fuel burning today rivals, if not exceeds, the rate of carbon cycle perturbation in the past associated with mass extinctions, Kump said. Because the rate of carbon rise is so steep currently, the best option for preventing eventual catastrophe is to ensure the duration of the carbon increase is short, he said. If we can rein ourselves in, we can avoid the Permian catastrophe, Kump said. SOURCEU. S. Government Says Walrus Not Endangered As Mammals Adapt To Climate Change. ANCHORAGE, Alaska  The Trump administration announced Wednesday it will not list the Pacific walrus as a threatened species based on diminished Arctic Ocean sea ice, concluding that the marine mammals have adapted to the loss. Walrus demonstrated much more ability to change their behaviors than previously thought. Walrus cows and yearlings rest on ice in Alaska in 2. U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service via Associated Press. U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service officials said they cannot determine with certainty that walruses are likely to become endangered in the foreseeable future, which the agency defines as the year 2. The decision could be challenged in court by environmental groups, who say a decline in Arctic Ocean sea ice due to climate change is a threat to the walruses future. The agency said in 2. The agency revised the decision based on new information, said Patrick Lemons, the agencys marine mammals management chief. Walrus demonstrated much more ability to change their behaviors than previously thought, Lemons said. Their ability to rest on shorelines before swimming to foraging areas makes the threat of less sea ice uncertain, he added. Older male walruses spend summers in the Bering Sea. Females with calves, however, ride sea ice north as it melts in spring and summer all the way through the Bering Strait into the Chukchi Sea. The ice provides a moving platform, giving walruses a place to rest and nurse, and protection from predators. In the last decade, however, ice in the Arctic Ocean has melted far beyond the shallow continental shelf over water too deep for walruses to reach the ocean floor. Walruses instead have gathered by the thousands on beaches in northwestern Alaska and Russia, where smaller animals are vulnerable to being trampled in stampedes if the herd is spooked by a polar bear, hunter or airplane. In the last six years, Lemons said, protections put in place in Alaska and Russia have greatly reduced trampling deaths. Walruses also have shown a willingness to swim great distances of 1. The Center for Biological Diversity petitioned to list walruses in 2. Arctic sea ice this summer dropped to 1. Lemons said the Fish and Wildlife Service used climate models showing the Chukchi Sea between northwest Alaska and Russia could be ice free in the summer by 2. But he said information collected in the last six years makes predicting the walruses fate uncertain beyond then, so the decision was made not to list the species. SOURCENew York Times Spreads Fake News on Trump EPAOn Tuesday, The New York Times reported that President Donald Trumps EPA secretary, Scott Pruitt, had almost no meetings with environmental groups or consumer or public health advocates. This in the same report that acknowledged Pruitt personally met with representatives from quite a few such organizations. The truth is EPA has met with over 2. EPA spokesman Jahan Wilcox told PJ Media in a statement Tuesday. The New Apple Watch Is Basically Also a Smartphone. The Full Jungle Master Movie on this page. It might look the same, but the latest smartwatch from Apple sounds like it will be a lot more powerful. Today, at an event held in the brand new Steve Jobs Theater on the soon to open Apple Campus, Jeff Williams, Chief Operating Officer at Apple, showed off the Apple Watch Series 3, which features a new processor that should make it faster and more power efficient, as well as, more crucially, cellular connectivity. The latter is considered a major boon, as with cellular support the new Apple Watch will not need a phone in order to pull off crucial smartwatch tasks like texts, voice calls, and weather forecasts. The new connectivity should also allow the Series 3 to do things like allow wearers to chuck the phone and navigate via Apple Maps, listen to music on ones wireless headphones, or even order takeout. Most smartwatches with cellular support are huge thanks to the need to pack in antennas and other necessary components, but the Series 3 will be the same size as the Series 2. Thats accomplished by doing cool things like making the whole display the antenna. LTE has previously been excluded from Apple wearables to conserve battery. The theory goes that the little antenna constantly pinging a cell tower would greatly drain a device that already has only 2. Besides cellular support, the Series 3 has a new processor with a claimed 7. It also includes the new W2 wireless chip. Apple introduced the W1 last year in its Ear. Pods and other headphones from Beats, and it was a huge improvement over the standard Bluetooth chips used in other devices. The W2 might double down on those advances. Additionally, Apple has also introduced a new gray color in ceramic, and a bunch of new bands. The new Series 3 will retail for 3. Series 1 will be 2. Last years Series 2 appears to have been retired. The new watches go on sale September 2. September 1. 5th. And Apple is going to need a cool factor if it hopes to fend off Fitbit, which is launching its own smartwatch, the Ionic, next month. While that watch wont have LTE it will have nearly a week of battery life. Updating. Its i. Phone day Read more Read.