The Climate, Environment and Energy Thread

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Then there’s asteroid strike  :o

While I don't want to jinx us, I have to say it's very unlikely to happen in the time scale that humanity has already existed in. Also humans like immediate explanations, so they favour the asteroid as it is not something that quietly creeps up on you like a cancer, but at the moment more and more evidence is building the Deccan Traps played a much bigger role than the asteroid, and the resulting long term climate shift left dinosaurs defenceless against something as simple as fungai, but we may never know!

When people start referencing asteroids, I often wonder what the chances of a new Tambora or Krakatoa, Australia in particular should be treating this seriously in conjunction with Indonesia and New Zealand, and the effects could well be global. Yet we(governments) stand by while Italy jails seismologists, it doesn't fill me with a lot of confidence about humanity!

Interesting aside, tectonics was basically unknown when Milankovic postulated his cycles!