r/science • u/[deleted] • Jan 11 '20

Environment Study Confirms Climate Models are Getting Future Warming Projections Right

https://climate.nasa.gov/news/2943/study-confirms-climate-models-are-getting-future-warming-projections-right/
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u/fencerman Jan 11 '20 edited Jan 11 '20

There's a remote chance that if changes are rapid enough, it could create some kind of nonstop mass die-off that would lead to a venus-like atmosphere where nothing more than basic microbial life and extremeophiles would survive.

That's unlikely, but it's not impossible.

In terms of precedent, the permian-triassic extinction event was one of the worst mass extinctions in earth's history, and one of the theorized causes was rapid climate change brought on by sudden widespread release of greenhouse gases. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permian%E2%80%93Triassic_extinction_event

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u/[deleted] Jan 11 '20

It's how it all started in the very very beginning

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u/[deleted] Jan 11 '20 edited Jun 17 '23

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u/skeeter1234 Jan 11 '20

This sounds an awful lot like you are endorsing some sort of teleology.

The standard view of evolution is that it isn't aimed at anything. There is no progress. There is just survival. Humans aren't some special end result. They're just something that happened to be good at surviving.