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Burning Fossil Fuels Helped Drive Earth’s Most Massive Extinction
- mempko 6y agoAnd appears to be driving a massive one right now.
- pozdena 6y agoImportant detail from the article: “While you may be tempted to draw an analogy between the Great Dying and today’s warming climate, there are significant differences. For one, the greenhouse gases emitted during the Permian-Triassic events were far greater than anything humans have produced. Also, the volcanoes released carbon dioxide 252 million years ago at a rate much slower than humans emit it today.”
- peter303 6y agoScientific fad. 25 years ago everyone was finding meteorite impacts at the 5+ major extinctions. Now its hypercarbon at least four of them.