Then why does he keep telling people he’s old? Is he hoping someone will say; “Oh you’re not that old!”
cite please
His post is his cite.
Worthless though it may be.
Is that really you, Mr. President?
You’re laboring under the misapprehension that all opinions are created equal. Allow me to disabuse you of that notion. Reasonable people can disagree about reasonable things, but in this case your opinion is wrong and you should feel bad for having a wrong opinion.
I’m older and smarter. Deal with it.
Assumes facts not in evidence.
I’m sure he’s old.
So…reading all the cutesy-poo, five year old mentality posts to me in this thread…is there any doubt why I laugh at you people? Why do you find it so astounding that I do so, when you people post they way you do?
You may now continue with your regularly scheduled childish behavior.
You can’t chisel your way through C’hump cement. It’s the dumbest substance known to man.
Clothy, keep leading with your chin. It’s good style.
Well, somebody’s got to do it…
If you have to tell yourself, then you’re not smart enough even to know how not-smart you are.
Some yo-yo on the Internet claims to be laughing at me for poorly-articulated reasons. Yeah, that really keeps me up at night.
I would turn it around to say, 360 million years of carbon sequestration substantially undone over a period of just 200 years. How can that not have a huge effect?
Quick events can have a massive effect. There have been at least 5 mass extinctions in the last 450 million years (probably more before that, but we didn’t have fossils from before the cambrian explosion 540 million years ago, I don’t think). In the last 450 million years, we’ve had a mass extinction event roughly every 100 million years. Right now we are in a sixth due to human activity. On earth’s history, it is probably a reasonable assumption to say that every ~100 million years or so, an event happens that kills virtually all life on earth. We may not know about the events before 450 million years ago because there were no fossils, or because bacteria are more resilient. But thats the universe we live in.
A gamma ray can hit the earth and totally change it. A meteor can hit the earth. A supervolcano can explode. Lots of things can happen that will totally change the climate in just one day. Our 200 years of industry has altered the earth, but far less than it would be altered by one supervolcano or one meteor hitting the planet. That doesn’t mean our industry isn’t changing things.
Some dramatic changes have happened too, but they took decades or centuries. Catastrophic methane release.
Also yes the earth has existed for 4.5 billion years. But its climate has changed dramatically at times. There were times when the earth was literally hell (everything was on fire) and times when the entire earth was covered in ice. Times when there were giant insects and times when there were only tiny insects. Life has only been possible on the land for the last billion years due to the sun’s activity. In another billion years, life on land won’t be possible again and the only life will be in the oceans.
As I mentioned, in the last 450 million years we’ve undergone 6 mass extinction events. Each time anywhere from 70-95% of all species on earth die. There are at least a dozen potential causes.
Life is fragile. It can change in an instant due to a meteor attack, gamma ray burst, nearby star going supernova or supevolcano. Or it can change over decades and centuries due to methane release. Or it can change over eons due to single celled organisms giving off gases that change the atmosphere.
Basically if you look at life’s history on earth, there are lots of examples where things can change quickly. The earth didn’t always look the way it does not, and mass extinctions are common in our history. Climate and the environment can change dramatically.
My cats have coughed up things that could best you in a battle of wits.
That would explain a lot.
I wish your cat could vote. It’s clearly more qualified than Clothy.
Whine shouldn’t be left out so long. It goes bad. You’re pretty much stupid vinegar at this point.