Red
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The earth will not be destroyed or on its way to destruction in 12 years like the IPCC believes. Yes, we should take care of the planet and keep it as clean as possible. No, climate change will not destroy the planet in 12 years.
I don't understand why you feel the need to misrepresent what continued global warming/climate change will entail. The destruction of the Earth? Nobody is making any such claim. Why are you so ridiculously overstating in this fashion? The Earth is 4.6 billion years old. There have been periods in the Earth's history that have resulted in mass extinction events. The mass extinction at the end of the Permian period resulted in the loss of some 95% of marine life, and 70% of terrestrial life. But the Earth still continued to revolve on its axis, circle the sun, and life rebounded. Debated are the causes behind this Great Dying, some 250 million years ago:
http://www.eartharchives.org/articl...ction-when-all-life-on-earth-almost-vanished/
Only in very recent years have we begun to locate and identify asteroidal fragments that would be big enough to have a devastating impact on life on Earth. The Tunguska event of 1908, in Siberia, which may have represented the impact of a small comet, and the meteor impact of 2013 in Chelyabinsk, Russia, the largest impactor in our lifetime, were minuscule in comparison to the hypothetical impactor that ended the Cretaceous Period some 65 million years ago, and led to the rise of mammals in its dinosaur-killing aftermath. Yet, relatively small events like Tunguska and Chelyabinsk do help raise our awareness of the potential danger of much larger impacts, hence the Near Earth Objects program(NEO):
https://cneos.jpl.nasa.gov/about/target_earth.html
Regardless of how many times life has experienced mass extinctions, regardless of the cause or causes of such events, the Earth itself survived quite intact, and life itself survived, and thrived. Yet you feel free to completely mistate the consequences projected in the wake of the extent of change envisioned by anthropogenic global warming. You believe a complete mischaracterization somehow advances your argument? The destruction of the Earth itself?
It will be a very, very, very long time before our Sun goes nova. That is the one event that would extinguish the Earth itself.