{"id":367946,"date":"2018-07-04T05:38:50","date_gmt":"2018-07-04T04:38:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/three-climatic-monsters-with-asteroid-impact\/"},"modified":"2018-07-04T05:38:50","modified_gmt":"2018-07-04T04:38:50","slug":"three-climatic-monsters-with-asteroid-impact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/three-climatic-monsters-with-asteroid-impact\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Climatic Monsters with Asteroid Impact"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Three monster climatic events are currently shaping up to collide. It\u2019ll be like an asteroid collision. In that regard, this article, in two parts, explores real, already happening, indisputable climate change that is starting to take down ecosystems throughout the biosphere. It\u2019s happening now.<\/p>\n<p>For perspective on asteroids, the last one, 7\u00bd miles wide, hit 65 million years ago (dinosaurs wiped-out), vaporizing sulfate rocks, filling the atmosphere with sulfuric particles, blocking out sunlight, temps dropped 18-29F, followed thereafter by vaporized carbonate rocks, emitting CO2 at the rate of 0.2 ppm over 100,000 years as temps increased by 5C.<\/p>\n<p>Today, CO2 increases at the rate of 3.0 ppm after only 200+ years of anthropogenic (human) influence. Ergo, humans are 15xs more powerful than an asteroid! Try that one on for size, mister extinction!<\/p>\n<p>The three monsters are: (1) A State Shift in the biosphere; (2) Human-caused greenhouse gases \u2014 GHG \u2014 alter the planet, disrupting the Holocene Era of 10,000 years of Goldilocks\u2019 climate, not too hot, not too cold, going away fast; (3) Collapsing ecosystems 100% due to human footprint, inclusive of excessive toxic chemicals galore, worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>Monster #1: A State Shift has been detected in a landmark study by twenty-two biologists and ecologists<sup><\/sup> concluding that when more than 50% of ice-free land converts to crops, livestock, highways, schools, towns, bridges, cities or the human footprint in toto, the ecological&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/2018\/07\/three-climatic-monsters-with-asteroid-impact\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three monster climatic events are currently shaping up to collide. It\u2019ll be like an asteroid collision. In that regard, this article, in two parts, explores real, already happening, indisputable climate change that is starting to take down ecosystems throughout the biosphere. It\u2019s happening now. For perspective on asteroids, the last one, 7\u00bd miles wide, hit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2525,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-367946","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2525"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=367946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367946\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}