Joe Issa Backs New Mathematical Formula to Buttress Fight against Climate Change – Excerpts

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Excerpts from an interview with climate change and science enthusiast Joe Issa show him taking a uniquely strategic position on doomsday

“If the new finding leads those who are most responsible for global warming to rethink their approach to taking responsibility and drastically served its purpose.

“Far too many people including world leaders are taking global warming for a joke; so if it takes a mathematical formula to scare the hell out of them, then it is worth.

“I am not a scientist so I tend to believe what I read from credible sources until they are proven wrong by more credible sources; it’s all science research…Furthermore, we have witnessed more fury in the recent hurricanes than ever before; the science predicted that too,” said Issa, as he reacts to a global warming, a doomsday prediction that could commence as early as 2100.

The mathematical formula, which has been created to predict a sixth mass extinction is said to have been developed by Daniel Rothman, a geophysics professor at the famous Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

He made the calculation based on the significant changes in the carbon cycle over the last 540 million years and everything that is known so far about the previous five mass extinctions that occurred during this time, a recent article in PA Science informed.

Rothman warned that based on his mathematical prediction, “our oceans may hold enough carbon in 80 years’ time to trigger a sixth mass extinction.”

He proposed that “mass extinction occurs when one of these two thresholds are crossed – one, where changes occur at rates faster than our ecosystems can adapt in a long-timescale carbon cycle and, two, where changes are of a significantly large magnitude for carbon perturbations that take place over shorter timescales.”

“Given the recent rise in carbon dioxide emissions due to human activity we would reach this threshold by the year 2100 and once that happens, it could lead to an unstable environment, and ultimately, mass extinction,” Rothman said in the article.

He is said to have “calculated the critical amount of carbon to be about 310 gigatons, which would be enough to trigger the events that could lead to a mass wipe-out of all the major species on Earth.”

“But it doesn’t mean mass extinction will follow immediately. It will take another 10,000 years for the ecological disasters to play out. But he warns that by 2100, the world would be tipped into unknown territory.

“This is not saying that disaster occurs the next day. It’s saying that, if left unchecked, the carbon cycle would move into a realm which would be no longer stable, and would behave in a way that would be difficult to predict, adding that in the geologic past, this type of behaviour is associated with mass extinction.

“The Earth has endured five mass extinction events, each involving processes that wreaked havoc on the carbon cycle.

"Having previously done some work on the end-Permian extinction, Rothman identified 31 events in the last 542 million years where a significant change occurred in our planet’s carbon cycle after looking through hundreds of scientific papers.

“Looking at the geochemical record, Rothman noted changes in the relative abundance of two carbon isotopes – carbon-12 and carbon-13 – for each mass extinction event.
“He then created a mathematical formula based on the total mass of carbon that was added to the oceans during each event and the timescale of each event.

“It became evident that there was a characteristic rate of change that the system basically didn’t like to go past. Then it became a question of figuring out what it meant,” the article said of Rothman.

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