This has been a doozy of a year. And it’s the best year so far blah blah. So how are you all coping? Does it hit anyone else like a bolt of lightning that probably I - we - won’t die of old age?

  • aidan@lemmy.world
    34·
    3 months ago

    Extinction of individual unfit species doesn’t mean the total collapse of life.

    • LustyArgonianMana@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      32·
      3 months ago

      Individual unfit species like ALL birds and ALL insects and ALL sea life and ALL fish? Not including ALL corals and ALL trees (forest fires). Lol what’s left, really? In terms of biomass, that’s like, most of it.

      That we are in an extinction event is widely known in the scientific community.

      https://news.stanford.edu/stories/2023/09/human-driven-mass-extinction-eliminating-entire-genera

      ^There, read up. Sorry to break the news to you.

      • aidan@lemmy.world
        21·
        3 months ago

        like ALL birds and ALL insects and ALL sea life and ALL fish?

        Where does it say that???

        Not including ALL corals and ALL trees (forest fires).

        Coral life is dying for the most part, but not everywhere

        Global forest area loss has significantly slowed, and seems to be continuing to go down

        Wildfires are not a significant risk to global forest coverage.

        Annual wildfire area is declining year over year, and is overwhelming a risk to savanna, shrublands, and grasslands

        • LustyArgonianMana@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
          12·
          3 months ago

          What I mean is that ALL species in those categories are affected. It’s not 1 or 3 species, it’s affecting literally every species across those Phylla. Your claim was that is was a few unfit species. It’s not, it’s all the species.

          Several tree species in the US are undergoing extinction due to forest fires, including the Redwoods: https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2022/08/23/extinct-tree-species-sequoias/

          The coral thing you posted is kinda laughable, sorry to be rude when you’re facing total annihilation of most life on this planet, but I have been chuckling about that for a couple of minutes. https://www.noaa.gov/news-release/noaa-confirms-4th-global-coral-bleaching-event

          “From February 2023 to April 2024, significant coral bleaching has been documented in both the Northern and Southern Hemispheres of each major ocean basin,” said Derek Manzello, Ph.D., NOAA CRW coordinator.

          “Climate model predictions for coral reefs have been suggesting for years that bleaching impacts would increase in frequency and magnitude as the ocean warms,” said Jennifer Koss, director of NOAA’s Coral Reef Conservation Program (CRCP).

          The 2023 heatwave in Florida was unprecedented. It started earlier, lasted longer and was more severe than any previous event in that region.

          NOAA made significant strides to offset some of the negative impacts of global climate change and local stressors on Florida’s corals, including moving coral nurseries to deeper, cooler waters and deploying sunshades to protect corals in other areas.

          (Do you see how NOAA was unable to fix the root cause of bleaching at any level? This is our governments failing us)

          Global forest area LOSS has slowed. Meaning how much we are losing is going down, but we are still losing it.

          https://www.google.com/amp/s/abcnews.go.com/amp/US/record-breaking-wildfires-occurred-northern-hemisphere-2023-new/story%3Fid=103169036

          Boreal forests in regions all over the world have been experiencing the worst wildfires in recorded history in 2023, according to new research.

          The total wildfire emissions for 2023 is estimated to be almost 410 megatonnes, the highest on record for Canada by a wide margin, according to the Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service dataset, which provides information on the location, intensity, and estimated emission of wildfires around the world. The previous annual record was set in 2014 at 138 megatonnes of carbon.

          It isn’t even close to the end of 2024 fire season so I gave an article from 2023.

          • aidan@lemmy.world
            21·
            3 months ago

            What I mean is that ALL species in those categories are affected.

            Effected yes, going extinct? No.

            We are specifically talking about if all life will be wiped out.

            • LustyArgonianMana@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
              13·
              3 months ago

              Yes, it will be. Where is your confusion here?

              Stuff was not as bad before.

              Now stuff pretty bad.

              We have done nothing to deal with that and in fact are still just making stuff worse (maybe some stuff is not making stuff worse at the same rate as before)

              Stuff gets worse exponentially

              Already extinction in the millions and billions is happening

              Will extinct more next year at an exponential rate, bc we have done nothing and all solutions will take decades

              All those species are affected meaning they are dying.

              Ecology means that’s bad, stuff relies on each other

              Chemistry means that’s bad, stuff relies on each other and certain Temps to happen

              All around all science says, it’s bad

                • LustyArgonianMana@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
                  12·
                  3 months ago

                  Okay, well you’re free to believe as you’d like. I’m fine with agreeing to disagree. The math checks out really clearly to me, “exponentially getting worse” is pretty clear in meaning.

                  • aidan@lemmy.world
                    21·
                    3 months ago

                    If a population exponentially grows does that mean it will continue infinitely? Why would the reverse be certain to be different?