Sentences with phrase «cause global extinctions»

Some researchers have proposed that these lava floods caused global extinctions on Earth and that they affect climate change, says planetary geologist Alfred McEwen of the University of Arizona, head of the Io observation team.

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If the material were to be presented in a manner which melded training with causes that truly interest students like Global Warming, species extinction, and catastrophic weather changes, it is more likely that they will be able to find time outside of school to learn more of the necessary techniques.

«The effects of the Chicxulub impact were therefore not the cause of a global mass extinction, which probably came about considerably less catastrophically than previously assumed,» states the Heidelberg researcher.

Heather Birch, a Cardiff University PhD from the School of Earth and Ocean Sciences who led the study, said: «The global catastrophe that caused the extinction of the dinosaurs also devastated ocean ecosystems.

Soot is a strong, light - absorbing aerosol that caused global climate changes that triggered the mass extinction of dinosaurs, ammonites, and other animals, and led to the macroevolution of mammals and the appearance of humans.

Rising sea levels caused by global warming could fuel more volcanic eruptions, possibly resulting in mass extinctions

In the first global analysis of extinctions during the Pleistocene geological epoch, Sandom et al. found that the expansion of humans out of Africa most likely caused the extinctions over the past 100,000 years.

They have built up so much methane that its release could cause massive global warming or the planet's next big extinction.

According to Abbott, the debris from a comet would filter the sun's rays, causing global cooling, crop failure, extinctions, and famine.

«This is the strongest evidence from fossils that the main driver of this extinction event was the after - effects of a huge asteroid impact, rather than a slower decline caused by natural changes to the climate or by severe volcanism stressing global environments.»

And it has shown us five previous worldwide extinction events that occurred before the human era, enabling us to ask whether human activity is now causing a sixth global die - off.

More specifically, the spread of exotic predators is considered to be one of the major causes of population decline and species extinction on a global scale.

The asteroid impact that caused a massive global extinction event can be found on the coast of Mexico.

The only time period that remotely resembles the ocean changes happening today, based on geologic records, was 56 million years ago when carbon mysteriously doubled in the atmosphere, global temperatures rose by approximately six degrees and ocean pH dropped sharply, driving up ocean acidity and causing a mass extinction among single - celled ocean organisms.

There are multiple causes of the detailed processes involved in global amphibian declines and extinctions [107]--[108], but global warming is a key contributor and portends a planetary - scale mass extinction in the making unless action is taken to stabilize climate while also fighting biodiversity's other threats [109].

Read more: Dinosaur Extinction: Chicxulub Asteroid Caused a Global Winter With Temperatures Plummeting by 47 Degrees

Those rapid global warming events were almost always highly destructive for life, causing mass extinctions such as at the end of the Permian, Triassic, or even mid-Cambrian periods.

Even in the end Cretaceous extinction, in which dinosaurs were finally wiped out by an asteroid impact, a major global - warming extinction event was already underway causing a major extinction within 150,000 years of the impact.

Please correct my faulty understanding, but I have read (secondary sources) that 251 million years ago it is thought there was 6 degrees global warming (from natural causes), and that this triggered massive CO2 and CH4 releases, leading to runaway global warming, and massive extinction.

Global warming brought on by increased atmospheric CO2 from volcanism is thought to be the cause of this extinction.

Global climate change is expected to cause, and in many cases has already been linked to, melting of the Arctic, global sea level rise, increased droughts and floods, worsening extreme weather, mass extinction, desertification, amid other impacts such as increased global conflict and fGlobal climate change is expected to cause, and in many cases has already been linked to, melting of the Arctic, global sea level rise, increased droughts and floods, worsening extreme weather, mass extinction, desertification, amid other impacts such as increased global conflict and fglobal sea level rise, increased droughts and floods, worsening extreme weather, mass extinction, desertification, amid other impacts such as increased global conflict and fglobal conflict and famine.

When CO2 levels jumped rapidly, the global warming that resulted was highly disruptive and sometimes caused mass extinctions.

Those abrupt global warming events were almost always highly destructive for life, causing mass extinctions such as at the end of the Permian, Triassic, or even mid-Cambrian periods.

What is concerning is the possibility that rapid global warming could occur faster than many people believe is possible, if global warming due to atmospheric carbon dioxide causes the Earth's atmosphere to warm enough to release enormous deposits of frozen methane (CH4) that are stored in the permafrost above the Arctic Circle and in frozen methane ice, known as methane hydrate, underneath the floors of the oceans throughout the world (see: How Methane Gas Releases Due To Global Warming Could Cause Human Extincglobal warming could occur faster than many people believe is possible, if global warming due to atmospheric carbon dioxide causes the Earth's atmosphere to warm enough to release enormous deposits of frozen methane (CH4) that are stored in the permafrost above the Arctic Circle and in frozen methane ice, known as methane hydrate, underneath the floors of the oceans throughout the world (see: How Methane Gas Releases Due To Global Warming Could Cause Human Extincglobal warming due to atmospheric carbon dioxide causes the Earth's atmosphere to warm enough to release enormous deposits of frozen methane (CH4) that are stored in the permafrost above the Arctic Circle and in frozen methane ice, known as methane hydrate, underneath the floors of the oceans throughout the world (see: How Methane Gas Releases Due To Global Warming Could Cause Human ExtincGlobal Warming Could Cause Human Extinction).

«The researchers created a model that dictated global warming will cause extinctions.

And such slight warming over next few decades, will cause animal extinction, and will melt Greenland in some dramatic fashion, and will continue cause increase in crop production and a general increase in global vegetation.

«Despite posited «threats of extinctions caused by global warming», 221 new species described by the California Academy of Sciences in 2014 ″ (2014-12-29).

With nothing more than untested speculation, the Golden Toad became the poster child for extinction by CO2 — caused global warming, and Alan Pounds joined Camille Parmesan among a very small select group of biologists invited to serve on the Nobel - prize winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

«Climate change is now recognized as a major threat to global biodiversity, and one that is already causing widespread local extinctions.»

An extinction that was said to be caused without a doubt by global warming.

They presented arguments against claims that global warming will cause increases in extreme weather events, sea level rise, vector - borne diseases, and species extinction.

Other leading theories to causes of mass extinctions include: global climate change, changes in sea level, chemical poisoning of the atmosphere and / or oceans, variation in solar radiation, and extreme volcanic activity.

Organisms throughout the world, regardless of habitat, suffered similar rates of extinction, suggesting that the cause of the event was a global, not local, occurrence, and that it was a sudden event, not a gradual change.

Such an increase could have potentially catastrophic consequences for mankind, causing the global sea level to rise more than 30 centimeters by 2100, droughts to become more severe and placing almost 90 percent of coral reefs at risk of extinction.

There are multiple causes of the detailed processes involved in global amphibian declines and extinctions [107]--[108], but global warming is a key contributor and portends a planetary - scale mass extinction in the making unless action is taken to stabilize climate while also fighting biodiversity's other threats [109].

The Fourth Assessment Report (AR4) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) claimed that global warming would cause the massive Himalayan glaciers to shrink to extinction by 2035.

While only a few recent species extinctions have been attributed to climate change, natural global climate change at rates slower than current anthropogenic climate change caused significant ecosystem shifts and species extinctions in the past millions of years.

And I also said that the amount of extinction already attributed to human - caused global warming is more than I expected, especially given that extinction as a phenomenon is such that for every extinction that we detect there are many that are not detected.

Spread of chytridiomycosis has caused the rapid global decline and extinction of frogs.

These findings show that global warming can directly cause extinctions.

Thus, environmental alarmists have made much of research claiming the Arctic's great white bear faces extinction from human - caused global warming.

I also work on reducing global catastrophic risk, which is anything that could end human civilization or even cause human extinction.

However unlike Parmesan's 1996 paper, 3 it was no longer global warming at low elevations that caused the population's extinction.

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Wayne, I read on a website (Gary Novak — Global Warming — not caused by carbon dioxide) that CO2 in air absorbs to extinction at its 15 micron peak in about 10m (Heinz Zug).

Global Warming / Climate Change / Climate Disruption / Carbon Pollution could easily be mistaken as a Hoax, given the constant name changing and how it is portrait as causing everything from shrinking penises to the potential extinction of coffee trees

Oliver Tickell, for instance, writes that a global warming causing a 4C temperature increase by the end of the century would be a «catastrophe» and the beginning of the «extinction» of the human race.

In this instance, the amphibian extinctions were caused by the chytrid fungus, a disease which exploded as global warming created ideal conditions for its growth.