Climate Change and Extinctions: A Deep Time Perspective

Peter Brannen joins me to discuss the kill mechanisms of Earth’s five mass extinctions. Humanity has developed the god like power’s to mimic all of them. From altering the carbon cycle to eutrophication of oceans and to a far lesser degree our asteroid like thermonuclear weapon arsenal.

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[abajojoe]

I subscribe to this channel even though I think the owner is more worried than he should be, because he is realistic about what could and should be done. I think it’s worthwhile to transition virtually all electrical generation to hydro and nuclear, and then see what parts of the energy sector could reasonably be converted to electricity or direct nuclear. Trains and ships, certainly. Small cars, probably, larger vehicles and trucks, probably never. Air travel and agriculture, in your dreams.

The most frustrating thing to me is that many of the same people who insist that we must go to zero carbon also insist that the only way to do it is with solar and wind. It will never happen, but if it did, the human condition would take a serious nose dive.

[Sabotage_Labs]

3:49 Curious to see where this is going since....CO2 is only one a several greenhouse gases that volcanos produce. Not to mention ask and potentially mass amounts of water vapor, depending on the volcano location, which is the single most effective greenhouse gas on global climate.

[LXS-udyf]

Fossil fuels as PEDs - brilliant analogy!

[coreyh.]

Everything about this planet is more miraculous than anything humans have ever imagined. Too bad we have simplified life to what makes money and our own selfish desires.

[kowalityjesus]

I guess the challenge is bridging the knowledge gap to the masses. I wish I were energetic enough to undertake such a task.

[Sabotage_Labs]

8:17 I thought snowball earth is still an unproven theory. Or, at least a contested theory.

[fredjacobs]

Mostly a great podcast - I didn’t know about the 65My old volcanic activity connection. Too bad that there was no push back on some of the climate CO2 narrative, like the comment that CO2 resides in the atmosphere for centuries. One only needs to look at the monthly Keeling curve to see that this comment is patently false.

[davetupling]

The Jet stream in the northern hemisphere has virtually stopped and in the south is still full on, what kind of weather will we get after the south stops altogether.

[abajojoe]

I appreciate the effort to assess risk by examining the past, but it’s important to remember that everything we understand about events millions of years ago is very murky, and to call any of those events “sudden” as we understand that word today is inappropriate. As far as being concerned about the ability of life to adapt to warming on the scale that is reasonable to project today, one need only ask whether life is more plentiful on Earth today in the tropics or in the arctic. We clearly have a lot of room for warming before any hint of a mass extinction.

[happyhome]

A whole bunch of hand-waving here - entertaining perhaps, and similar to Nate Hagens — from whom I have unsubscribed — no peer review.

[davidwilkie]

Every body lives in the illusion of separation, Hilbert's Infite Hotel accommodation of parallel coexistence Singularity-point positioning modulation cause-effect mechanism coherence-cohesion sync-duration objective-aspects of relative-timing resonance.., and in holographic time-timing, this means all-at-once all-ways cross fertilization of phase-locked resonance bonding proportioning probabilities, quantization cause-effect holography dimensionality coordination shaping WYSIWYG.

Everyone is a holographic composite of relative-timing differentiates in ONE-INFINITY omnidirectional-dimensional Logarithmic Time Duration Timing Conception Origin. It's one QM-TIME Completeness Actuality Conception, all we ever know is some part of the historical perspectives landscapes, which is why Geological Geometry is fundamentally bio-logical re-evolution containment in log-antilog potential positioning possibilities.
Trancendental Meditation type stuff.

[erikkaareson]

Wasn't it this terrorst guy who was shot like 120 times or so? In this ebasy hostage thing many years ago?

Like people complain about the police shooting a suspect 40 times? Jeez... Hysterical people.. don't they know that thats like only a third of the shots that terrorist guy took?