VICE - “We’d need a higher resolution climate model to predict a mass extinction event,” said Andy Ridgwell, a geologist at the University of California Riverside who co-authored the study, in a statement. “That said, we do already have concerns about water circulation in the North Atlantic today, and there is evidence that the flow of water to depth is declining.”
To that end, Pohl and his colleagues plan to delve deeper into the role played by continental changes, among others, in ocean oxygenation and marine biodiversity.