Limited Climate Change------Harmful Algae Blooms--------Deoxygenation of Water-------Methane-------Massive Climate Change-------MASSIVE EXTINCTION EVENT

The climate change we are currently experiencing is simply a trigger.

​The factors listed above all have their own story.  Each one can be clearly tracked and understood.  We have the science so that related modeling is possible, although not yet clearly defined.  The take home message however is that the climate change we are currently experiencing is simply a trigger.  The real hazard we face comes later.  

The same deoxygenation of water phenomenon has happened before, during Earth’s most extreme extinction event…the Great Permian Extinction, during which Earth’s atmospheric temperature increased by 10C and 96% of species were lost.  We are on this same extinction path now, only we are approaching it at a vastly faster rate than during the Permian.  Here’s a quick summary:

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