Olde Europe said:
So, no one knows whether the unlinked "research" is any better than your math, or whether it exists at all. Your understanding of the impact and its consequences is most assuredly non-existent. That much we do know.
Sorry, OE, my "sloppy" research comes from the Los Alamos National Laboratory with their using the Q Machine super computer to generate the numbers by taking the KNOWN facts and working backwards to what it would take to create them. Sorry if my math was a bit off, I was half asleep when I wrote it not sleeping too well having just recently gotten out of the hospital.
Fact remains:
- CLAIM 1: Man is producing 100X more than nature: FALSE.
The Earth has endured far more than man can imagine producing, been rocked to the precipice of total devastation and STILL came back and righted itself to what we have today!
So whatever man does, whatever disturbance we add to, is meager, and once our technology outgrows our need for greenhouse fossil fuels, the Earth will carry on.
ITMT, the BEST thing we can do, is get control of global population.
So, still no link, and I am not going to take your word for anything. Not that I need one anyway. No one knows with any certainty the size of the impactor, no one knows with any certainty the geological situation at the impact site, no one knows with any precision what kind of events ensued thereafter, and thus these formidable calculations could be off by orders of magnitude.
It doesn't matter anyway, since the earth is warming, and we are in all likelihood going to encounter climates that are detrimental to life as we know it. Whatever happened 65 million years ago does not change that in any way, shape or form. The funny thing about all that non-argument is that the impact generated a mass extinction that eliminated most of the species then living. We are currently generating another mass extinction event. That doesn't get any better because it happened, for other reasons, before.
"We" (humankind) may have to get control of global population. That is still falling way short of what we (in the West) have to do to avert the worst of climate change. For if we don't stop it before the carbon content in the permafrost regions of the northern hemisphere starts to evaporate in earnest, we (humankind) might just as well call it a day. That's why the speed of warming in this region is such devastating news.
No one this side of complete and utter insanity has ever claimed, "Man is producing 100X more than nature." That's the mother of red herrings.
Oh, and get better soon!