Lee Kump

Lee Kump is a professor of geosciences at Pennsylvania State University and a fellow of the American Geophysical Union. His research interests include biogeochemical cycles, environmental biogeochemistry, and atmosphere/ocean evolution. With James Kasting, he is the co-author of the popular textbook The Earth System.[1]

Kump highlights the relationship between the climate crisis and mass extinction in Earth's history: “The rate at which we’re injecting CO2 into the atmosphere today, according to our best estimates, is 10 times faster than it was during the End-Permian [...] And rates matter. So today we’re creating a very difficult environment for life to adapt, and we’re imposing that change maybe 10 times faster than the worst events in earth’s history.”[2]

References
  1. The Earth System
  2. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/29/opinion/sunday/when-life-on-earth-was-nearly-extinguished.html



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