Fun fact: the creation of most (if not all) of the world's coal happened about 300 million years ago, almost causing a crippling global ice age, as so much carbon was sucked out of the atmosphere. https://t.co/0TFtmvNK3v
Formation of most of our coal brought Earth close to global glaciation.
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The group discusses how the formation of coal during the Carboniferous period caused significant drops in atmospheric CO2, bringing Earth close to a 'snowball' state, supported by references to scientific papers like Feulner (2017). The tone combines scientific detail with some skepticism about models, demonstrating a deep dive into geological data and climate implications, which reflects both high interest and meaningful engagement.
Most discussions acknowledge the link between coal formation, CO2 levels, and global glaciation, showing general consensus with some nuance.
Posts delve into detailed geological and climate science topics, indicating high curiosity about Earth's ancient climate and formation processes.
Many participants reference specific studies, debate models, and interpret data, reflecting in-depth engagement with the subject matter.
Discussions enhance understanding of climate history and underscore the connection between fossil fuel formation and Earth's climate shifts, which could influence perceptions about climate change.
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- Most of Earth's coal deposits formed during the late Carboniferous and early Permian periods from plant debris, which played a role in lowering atmospheric CO2 levels and bringing Earth close to a global ice age.
- Changes in Earth's orbital parameters, such as axial tilt and orbit eccentricity, significantly influenced climate conditions and atmospheric CO2 fluctuations, with colder periods linked to specific orbital configurations.
- Climate modeling suggests that once atmospheric CO2 drops below about 40 ppm, Earth could enter a "Snowball Earth" state—completely glaciated—indicating that orbital cycles were crucial in controlling climate and the carbon cycle during this ancient ice age.]
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Most liked on X and Bluesky@wideawake_media Lowering CO2 levels lead to global glaciation.. https://t.co/K2wqmMNnAo
We are burning fossilized hydrocarbon matter. That means we are burning stuff that was once alive and in a way we are grave robbing by doing so. Did you ever wonder who's graves we are robbing? Snowball Earth, that's climate extreme. Now reverse that...
@CraigSw60447870 @Melanie33720945 @arcanegoat @Unapologet26919 @oohglobbits2 @WasIRude @NeonCloud5 @umfpt @yeayea1818 @1pckt @warpox @DiPolarPilot @SDAFS56788141 @surgerysleeper @shock_hazard @osiris_neits @Galcondude @SSpence64 @latoyadeeznutz @TakeThatHistory @hugh_bothwell @1Quetzalcoatl1 @hellboy2112 @YTGGFI @RoryWantsToKnow @JaTapps @Christgodtweet @Cleisthenes5 @NoScienceDenial @HankStern2 @Flaffenbam @DoubleDoubleJon @TheColossis @Thedukeistheman @laughchem @RayOwen27617272 @Atheism_is_Dead @JordanBassior @CrispyCurry @andyguy @RFirethief @RockAndAnchor No, the flood didn't happen. It's physically impossible. Here's the evidence for coal formation 300ma yrs ago. https://t.co/rEmU9iFrnM https://t.co/K8O216YWod https://t.co/lUUQNVCsGp
@wideawake_media Low CO2 levels lead to global glaciation.. History proves this
@BMauschen @WahnSager War ja eig. umgekehrt. Die Inkohlung durch wiederholte Sedimentüberdeckung von Sumpfbecken mit üppiger Vegetation insb. durch Erosion der enormen variszischen Gebirgsbildung führte zu CO2-Abnahme bis auf ca. 100 ppm und nahezu zu einem "snowball earth" https://t.co/gpEujN7Zel
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@CraigSw60447870 @Melanie33720945 @arcanegoat @Unapologet26919 @oohglobbits2 @WasIRude @NeonCloud5 @umfpt @yeayea1818 @1pckt @warpox @DiPolarPilot @SDAFS56788141 @surgerysleeper @shock_hazard @osiris_neits @Galcondude @SSpence64 @latoyadeeznutz @TakeThatHistory @hugh_bothwell @1Quetzalcoatl1 @hellboy2112 @YTGGFI @RoryWantsToKnow @JaTapps @Christgodtweet @Cleisthenes5 @NoScienceDenial @HankStern2 @Flaffenbam @DoubleDoubleJon @TheColossis @Thedukeistheman @laughchem @RayOwen27617272 @Atheism_is_Dead @JordanBassior @CrispyCurry @andyguy @RFirethief @RockAndAnchor No, the flood didn't happen. It's physically impossible. Here's the evidence for coal formation 300ma yrs ago. https://t.co/rEmU9iFrnM https://t.co/K8O216YWod https://t.co/lUUQNVCsGp
@patfrank830 @dafalgoutDennis @MLeiter42 @ammocrypta @Frnc_prep @ChrisBBacon3 @priscian @1000Frolly @WayneAllanH @joPO19942906 @JamesAbbott2013 @craigthomler @CDCollins5269 @jimdtweet @WHPAAD @grok @balls95652097 @ladyspat1 @BubbasRanch @evenminded512 @Kenneth72712993 @MichaelCar11571 @BenKoby1911 @LexWaters7 @Michael_D_Crow @Scizz8 @Data79504085 @Mark_A_Lunn @DaleGribble_666 @rln_nelson @4RealClimate @BudBromley @Ernestops78 @TrixX306 @phlannelphysics @BobPartridge16 @Hji45519156 @FreeSpeech4U_Me @Devonian1342 @jgatta06 @TypicalDeviant @isaacscradle @RobertWager1 @hannon_renee @RixAutomatedMat @GeorgeJeff9804 @roger_clague @NOAA You can educate yourself about the early Permian here. https://t.co/0jeHHWC59a
@Frnc_prep @patfrank830 @dafalgoutDennis @MLeiter42 @ammocrypta @ChrisBBacon3 @priscian @1000Frolly @WayneAllanH @joPO19942906 @JamesAbbott2013 @craigthomler @CDCollins5269 @jimdtweet @WHPAAD @grok @balls95652097 @ladyspat1 @BubbasRanch @evenminded512 @Kenneth72712993 @MichaelCar11571 @BenKoby1911 @LexWaters7 @Michael_D_Crow @Scizz8 @Data79504085 @Mark_A_Lunn @DaleGribble_666 @rln_nelson @4RealClimate @BudBromley @Ernestops78 @TrixX306 @phlannelphysics @BobPartridge16 @Hji45519156 @FreeSpeech4U_Me @Devonian1342 @jgatta06 @TypicalDeviant @isaacscradle @RobertWager1 @hannon_renee @RixAutomatedMat @GeorgeJeff9804 @roger_clague @NOAA Yes, Frank is pretty ignorant about geology. https://t.co/0jeHHWC59a
@Kenneth72712993 @MLeiter42 @sjsimmons @rln_nelson @ammocrypta @jimdtweet @Scizz8 @4RealClimate @craigthomler @dafalgoutDennis @evenminded512 @priscian @BudBromley @WHPAAD @Michael_D_Crow @BubbasRanch @CDCollins5269 @Ernestops78 @JamesAbbott2013 @LexWaters7 @TrixX306 @phlannelphysics @patfrank830 @joPO19942906 @BobPartridge16 @grok @BenKoby1911 @Hji45519156 @FreeSpeech4U_Me @Mark_A_Lunn @WayneAllanH @ladyspat1 @JJ9621073059835 @Devonian1342 @jgorman2424 @jgatta06 @ChrisBBacon3 @TypicalDeviant @isaacscradle @ClimateRetorts @RobertWager1 @hannon_renee @RixAutomatedMat @DaleGribble_666 @GeorgeJeff9804 @roger_clague @GillesnFio @Joe_Public2018 @ClimatePoet 100 +/- 80 ppm for earliest Perm, from we d 13 C values of soil-formed calcites (d 13 Ccarb). Two papers here 1. https://t.co/uoJ8ajX0rN 2. https://t.co/N4pbXVmnFe
@Cervus2Leo @MikeHudema ....or few million. Anyway, research papers show figures as low as 150. It says 900-2,000 for Permian. Papers show figures of 100 for the early Permian. So it is way out. https://t.co/biQj60V23M
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@mazzini_gsp @ari10prasetyo The bulk of the coal driving the Industrial Revolution and contributing to global warming today has been deposited during the Carboniferous period (359–299 Mya), resulting in a significant drawdown of atmospheric CO2 at that time. https://t.co/wM8mXyzB11.
@AndyWest_tweets @newstart_2024 https://t.co/ejEloLpzkj Here you go. Fascinating history of cooling warming up & cooling. CO2 @ 700ppm & vegetation dying off because CO2 dropped too low. Axial deviations ( Milankovic Cycles?) affecting just about everything. All without Gates, WEF, Gore & Kerry.
RT @deonandan: Fun fact: the creation of most (if not all) of the world's coal happened about 300 million years ago, almost causing a cripp…
Fun fact: the creation of most (if not all) of the world's coal happened about 300 million years ago, almost causing a crippling global ice age, as so much carbon was sucked out of the atmosphere. https://t.co/0TFtmvNK3v
Formation of most of our coal brought Earth close to global glaciation ... eh sama PBNU mau diadul² lagi
@TomANelson @CO2Coalition This is an update to the other study. "During the earliest Permian, however, the threshold for Snowball Earth glaciation of 37.5±2.5 ppm is within the uncertainty range of the estimates of 100±80 ppm." https://t.co/0jeHHWC59a
#auspol https://t.co/JHbcNkaQ2X
@rreeves5 @wideawake_media You're right - because Earth would be a snowball (because co2 regulates the temperature). When most of the coal was produced by the planet, the drawdown of carbon in the atmosphere, almost turned to Earth into a snowball (again). https://t.co/41yXW7juel
@BMauschen @WahnSager War ja eig. umgekehrt. Die Inkohlung durch wiederholte Sedimentüberdeckung von Sumpfbecken mit üppiger Vegetation insb. durch Erosion der enormen variszischen Gebirgsbildung führte zu CO2-Abnahme bis auf ca. 100 ppm und nahezu zu einem "snowball earth" https://t.co/gpEujN7Zel
@ammocrypta @ZombiePiano @RobAnderson17 @ericonthetrail @S_D_Mannix @Anvndarnamn5 @AristotleMrs @Mark_A_Lunn @TWTThisIsNow @B_Bolshevik100 @ClimateRetorts @wille99 @ItsTheAtmospher @Dcchristense @benmooreau @KCTaz @ncdave4life @Climatehope2 @EthonRaptor @TheDisproof @Data79504085 @Veritatem2021 @Jaisans @atherton_chris @WillWat6 @3GHtweets @DGinCheshire @BointonGiles @AuroriaTwittori @RushhourP @MartinJBern @Willard1951 @gstrandberg1 @Jakegsm @EricWil06256732 @DTGvmd @PaulDFarrar @Hji45519156 @Valja46Zhark5 @paulp1232 @J0aquIm_B4rb0s4 @Sky48115666 @0Sundance @BradPKeyes @DoesThisW0rk @FD2you @JustThi30117912 @ChrisBBacon3 @rosmadiwahab this may bring you up to speed. Co2 levels are listed https://t.co/JHbcNkaQ2X
@wideawake_media Low CO2 levels lead to global glaciation.. History proves this
RT @AustConserva: @wideawake_media Lowering CO2 levels lead to global glaciation.. https://t.co/K2wqmMNnAo
@wideawake_media Lowering CO2 levels lead to global glaciation.. https://t.co/K2wqmMNnAo
@drop_robert @damagedonegr @MatthewWielicki @TheDisproof @kevpluck @ArjanMuyen @ejwwest Caused the Permian glaciations. So the earth nearly froze, killing a significant portion of marine life. We then see a rapid increase in temperature connected to volcanic activity releasing CO2 into the atmosphere. Temperatures spiked and also... https://t.co/s3RSqIuZCL
We are burning fossilized hydrocarbon matter. That means we are burning stuff that was once alive and in a way we are grave robbing by doing so. Did you ever wonder who's graves we are robbing? Snowball Earth, that's climate extreme. Now reverse that...
@benco_c @Le_Reveilleur La séquestration de cette importante masse carbonée a par ailleurs entrainé une baisse importante du taux de CO2 dans l'atmosphère et donc une diminution de l'effet de serre durant le Carbonifère. 2/2 https://t.co/3AdHevT5no
There’s nothing new about Climate Change - it’s been going on forever. The trouble is we’re driving it much faster by recreating a ‘fossil’ climate than 8,000,000,000 people can adapt to. Slightly techie link https://t.co/1CIDjVslX3.
@NyteSong You can also fail to read the literature. Here are the peer-reviewed studies I cited proving you wrong. https://t.co/rwG7JokiAE https://t.co/MbdEg5bd2g https://t.co/nU8xl96CqK https://t.co/jajUjbkQnu Let's see if you can read these and do better than you have done so far.
@MentalCasanova Even crazier is all the coal on the planet was created at the same point in the planets history. https://t.co/nFMX3Xiliy
@malpheuse @CartoonsJpt That MODEL (geocarb) useless for correlation - that ice age caused by CO2 dropping https://t.co/2H3tJqV0gK
Fossil carbon - in oil, natural gas, and coal - lost its 14C a long time ago. Most of the coal we've burned formed 300-360 MILLION years ago. (Unsurprisingly, when that carbon got locked up, it caused the Earth to cool.) So the 14C all decayed. https://t.co/yP1Labt0yp
@d_e_mol @CPatriot1974 That's a model from 2001, not emprical data. Here's actual empirical data from proxies. Georg Feulner. Coal formation and global glaciation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Oct 2017, 114 (43) 11333-11337; DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1712062114 https://t.co/jajUjbkixW https://t.co/46hZbCSB8Z
@ceejayoz @AlexPetrovnia @pookleblinky Which does make the original Tweet incorrect but the followup is true: much of coal deposits in particular formed during the Carboniferous and Permian: https://t.co/vhHWz9KVzY
Formation of most of our coal brought Earth close to global glaciation via @PNASNews https://t.co/a6NgSWqspb
@MrDstrkt @WReynolds20 @FriendsOScience @AdamskiPeter @jkenney @fordnation @PremierScottMoe Not extremely high towards the end of the Carboniferous. But havily fluctuating between ~ 700ppm and ~ 150ppm I am referring to that paper of Feulner, 2017. “Formation of most of our coal brought Earth close to global glaciation” https://t.co/Eey9w548JB https://t.co/JKFZhVLWdv
@luisbaram @LofayPeter Paper: PNAS October 24, 2017 114 (43) 11333-11337; first published October 9, 2017 https://t.co/jKHH2mDBeu
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