Posted on Dec 7, 2018
“We thought, perhaps hoped, emissions had peaked a few years ago,” said Rob Jackson, director of the Jackson Lab at Stanford University’s Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences. “After two years of renewed growth, that was wishful thinking.”
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Posted on Dec 7, 2018
The state of the planet in the late Permian—increasing greenhouse gases in the atmosphere that create warmer temperatures on Earth—is similar to today says oceanographer Justin Penn, at the University of Washington: “Under a business-as-usual emissions scenarios, by 2100 warming in the upper ocean will have approached 20 percent of warming in the late Permian, and by the year 2300 it will reach between 35 and 50 percent. This study highlights the potential for a mass extinction arising from a similar mechanism under anthropogenic climate change.”
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Posted on Dec 7, 2018
A discovery occurred earlier this year, thanks to Hubble Space Telescope observations, which proved difficult to interpret: the first-ever detection of an evaporating exoplanet.
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