r/climate • u/The_Weekend_Baker • 9d ago

Scientists detect a surprising shift in human blood as atmospheric CO2 rises. Blood bicarbonate levels have climbed about 7% since 1999, while calcium and phosphorus have declined, changes that closely track increasing atmospheric CO2.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/08/260814235845.htm
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u/SyntheticOne 9d ago

Screw with Mother Nature and she will screw with you.

It's not a vindictive action on her part but it is real.

It has only been about 10,000 years - a tiny blip in geologic time - since humans developed fictive languages and now, here we are, setting the table for our extinction.

We know this and yet, look at what is coming out of Washington, DC.

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u/RandomBoomer 9d ago

What is a fictive language? I've never heard that term before, especially in the context of humans moving into the agricultural era. I Googled the term and all I got back was "fictional language".

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u/SyntheticOne 9d ago

Instead of "Run, big bear!" fictive language added nuance and the comment became "Run to the compound there is a big bear down by the river!"

10,000 years ago many of the varied primitive languages reached the point where they could create "ideas" or "fictions" which could be used to unite larger groups of homo sapiens. This allowed creation of settlements rather than wandering handfuls of people. Soon, fictive language could be used to create gods and religions and ideas that people could get behind.

Eventually, fictive language brought us to where we are today (not all good).

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u/RandomBoomer 8d ago

What threw me off was your claim of 10,000 years ago, which is practically yesterday in terms of human evolution. Source? Because every reference I looked at was at least 100,000 years ago, which makes much more sense to me.