Koalas, The Burmese Star Tortoise, South China Tigers, White Rhinos, Humans and over the last 100 years 500 other species have become functionally extinct because of Humans..
When will we die
It took me a while to understand the answer as given by Natalia Shakhova in 2008.
As the Methane releases from the ESLA, it is up to 100 times as effective a greenhouse gas as CO2 and though it doesn’t stay around very long, about 20 years for CH4 as opposed to hundreds for CO2 the massive release will continue for a very long time as it continues to melt.
The release will continue long enough and hard enough to raise Arctic temperatures, and possibly Antarctic temperatures as much as 18 degrees C and thus global temperatures above 2 degrees C, very possibly as much as 3 to 5 degrees C globally a level that is unsustainable for Human life.
The Sea Ice melt is anomalous this year. Greenland Ice Cap melting is anomalous this year. Antarctic Ice Shelf melting is anomalous this year to the point where it has gotten past the grounding line and is acting like a cork shooting out of a bottle of champagne.
The very conservative IPCC has warned that the tropics are uninhabitable at global temperatures anywhere close to these anomalies if they are sustained as it appears will be the case.
Coastal cities, island nations, Bangladesh, New Orleans, Florida, New York, Venice, Amsterdam won’t be able to save themselves with sea walls or levies.
This could happen by 2026.