"Closely spaced or overlapping El Niño events create cumulative cloud suppression. Each El Niño phase actively reduces low-level stratocumulus and trade-wind cumulus clouds over vast tropical and subtropical ocean areas as part of the Bjerknes feedback loop. When the next El Niño develops before full cloud recovery during intervening La Niña or neutral conditions, the albedo loss becomes progressively more persistent, producing the observed multi-decadal linear decline. […] Major El Niño periods (especially 2015–16 and 2023–24) coincide with accelerated albedo drops and incomplete recoveries."
Ford, Gillon (2026). "The El Niño Ratchet Effect Overlapping El Niño Events as a Driver of Multi-Decadal Planetary Albedo Decline" https://www.academia.edu/167011795/The_El_Ni%C3%B1o_Ratchet_Effect_Overlapping_El_Ni%C3%B1o_Events_as_a_Driver_of_Multi_Decadal_Planetary_Albedo_Decline
#ElNiño #RatchetEffect #ENSO #massExtinction #massExtinctions #climate #climateChange #globalHeating #climateBreakdown #climateHeating #research #study
The Chicxulub Craters and the Anthropocene Holocausts were choosing players. Of course the Craters chose a massive asteroid to be on their #side. The Holocausts countered by choosing fossil fuel consumption. Then the Craters chose massive volcanic eruptions, so of course the Holocausts chose aquifer depletion. They met the Craters' acidified oceans with thinning sea ice--and so it went.
It's going to be the extinction match of the ages.
The History of Earth in Exactly 2000 Words – Earth.com…
The history of Earth is obviously a ginormous topic. Really, almost everything humans know is part of the history of Earth. Here, we will cover the geologic and biologic history of Earth, dating all the way back to its creation... continue reading this article at earth.com #earth #evolution #solarsystem #massextinctions #supercontinents #geologicaltime #fossils
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How does life rebound from #MassExtinctions? Scientists find surprising answers
Study by UChicago, Smithsonian, UK Natural History Museum challenges assumptions about survival after global catastrophe
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1086154
#science #evolution #extinction #ecology
Dr. Emily Judd: "The impact of anthropogenic climate change is (and will continue to be) determined by the rate of change (meaning how quickly CO2 and temperature change) much more than the absolute temperatures, themselves."
cited by @hausfath there: https://www.theclimatebrink.com/p/climate-skeptics-have-new-favorite 🧵
#massExtinction #massExtinctions #climate #climateChange #globalHeating #climateBreakdown #climateHeating #quotes #research #study #CO2 #emissions
AIUI biologists have repeatedly observed that when a species overpopulates it's environment one or more events result in a crash in the population numbers of that species.
I think that #ClimateChange, #MassExtinctions, and #GlobalPandemics show that humans have overpopulated the environment.
We've had a chance to avoid a population crash by implementing smart solutions.
But our culture has messed with our politics and our science and no adequate solutions may happen
Somehow this news makes me realise everything else is trivia
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/08/world-scientists-climate-failure-survey-global-temperature?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
#GlobalHeating #MassExtinctions
Survival of the newest: The #mammals that survive #MassExtinctions aren't as 'boring' as scientists thought https://phys.org/news/2023-10-survival-mammals-survive-mass-extinctions.html
Derived #faunivores are the forerunners of major #synapsid radiations https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-023-02200-y
"the species that survived aren't as generic as #scientists had thought: instead, having new and different traits can be the key to succeeding in the aftermath of a catastrophe."
When an asteroid hit the Earth 66 million years ago, it set off a devastating mass extinction. The dinosaurs (except for a few birds) all died out, along with lots of the mammals. But some small mammals survived, laying the groundwork for all the mammals alive today.
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