Lee R. Kump is a professor of geosciences at Pennsylvania State University and a fellow of the
American Geophysical Union
The American Geophysical Union (AGU) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization of Earth, Atmospheric science, atmospheric, Oceanography, ocean, Hydrology, hydrologic, Astronomy, space, and Planetary science, planetary scientists and enthusiasts that ...
. He is currently the Dean of the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences at Pennsylvania State University. His research interests include biogeochemical cycles, environmental biogeochemistry, and atmosphere/ocean evolution. With
James Kasting
James Fraser Kasting (born January 2, 1953) is an American Earth science, geoscientist and Distinguished Professor of Geosciences at Penn State University. Kasting is active in NASA's search for habitable Exoplanet, extrasolar planets. He is con ...
, he is the co-author of the popular textbook ''The Earth System''.
Kump highlights the relationship between the
climate crisis
''Climate crisis'' is a term that is used to describe global warming and climate change and their effects. This term and the term ''climate emergency'' have been used to emphasize the threat of global warming to Earth's natural environment an ...
and mass extinction in Earth's history: “The rate at which we’re injecting CO
2 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.”
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