Oh that's another life form besides sharks that will do fine under climate change, fernshttps://twitter.com/susantheodd/status/808585292034633728 …
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There's a list of ancient life forms that survived all the way from when Earth was much hotter to today
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Sharks (not more recently evolved bony fish), seaweed (not coral), ferns (not flowering plants), really big bugs of various kinds
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They say when the coral reefs die out their niche will be taken by lots of seaweed and algae
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The hot steamy ancient Earth had an extremely slimy and green ocean
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Lots of the existing ocean ecosystem will die and get replaced by stuff that just eats algae, including maybe us
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We joke abt dead dinosaurs but fossil fuel is just immense beds of compressed seaweed, like nori to the nth degree
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So you can think of us burning the oil as liberating the masses and masses of seaweed to live again
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Higher humidity and higher oxygenation, giant fern forests and bugs the size of your head
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New Earth will be exciting I guess. Closest we'll actually get to colonizing an alien planet, except with no home planet to go back to
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