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   Sick Sun (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Thursday, 10-Oct-2024 06:58:38 JST Sick Sun

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   • Saskboy K.
   @saskboy I was curious if this was true because 250 million years ago there was a planetary mass-extinction event that pumped 8x as much carbon dioxide into the air than there currently is now and killed 85% of life on Earth. It was called the Permian-Triassic Extinction.
   
   I found this scientific paper: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9351498/
   
   What I found out was, we are currently pumping more carbon into the air than that mass-extinction event by a multiple of several hundred.
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     Saskboy K. (saskboy@mastodon.cc)'s status on Thursday, 10-Oct-2024 06:58:44 JST Saskboy K.

     "we have in our minds the idea that the world changes at a geologic pace, moving in stately fashion through epochs and eras. But right now—as carbon dioxide accumulates more quickly in the atmosphere than at any point in the last 500 million years—”geologic pace” is measured in months. Hell, glaciers—our metaphor for moving slowly—disappear from one winter to the next." - Bill McKibben