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Virtually every mass extinction in the history of the planet we now think was caused by climate change caused by CO2. The K-T asteroid impact that killed the di
by moultano 7y ago
Virtually every mass extinction in the history of the planet we now think was caused by climate change caused by CO2. The K-T asteroid impact that killed the dinosaurs is the outlier. The worst in history, the P-T extinction that nearly wiped out all complex life, happened after a volcano in siberia flowed into a coal bed. We're currently releasing CO2 10x faster than that.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/07/science/climate-change-mass-extinction.html https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/07/science/climate-change-ma...