Ice age delayed by humans... by 100,000 years

[AirPo]

Alas, we won't be around long enough to find out if they're right.

Latest research suggests that human intervention has postponed the beginning of the next ice age.

The researchers suggest that even moderate human interference with the planet's natural carbon balance, through activities such as the burning of fossil fuels, might delay the next glacial cycle by 100,000 years.

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[DaisyDay]

Yay us?

 

[cow451]

Now the bad news:

Yes. Global warming has reached a critical stage. If temperatures climb 2 degrees Celsius, low-lying islands would be wiped out as seas continue to rise, pushing many plants and animals toward extinction, increasing the intensity of droughts, floods, heat waves and storms. And in a historical moment, ministers from 195 countries at COP21, the climate change conference in Paris in December 2015, pledged to act to keep temperatures low.

 

[AvilaSurfer]

And nothing has ever gone extinct before....

 

[nightflight]

Now the bad news:

Yes. Global warming has reached a critical stage. If temperatures climb 2 degrees Celsius, low-lying islands would be wiped out as seas continue to rise, pushing many plants and animals toward extinction, increasing the intensity of droughts, floods, heat waves and storms. And in a historical moment, ministers from 195 countries at COP21, the climate change conference in Paris in December 2015, pledged to act to keep temperatures low.

Obama sure screwed up buying that house in Hawaii.

 

[DaisyDay]

And nothing has ever gone extinct before....

Sure, but we don't want it to be us this time.