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Volcanic Warming Eyed in 'Great Dying'

Posted by michael on from the learning-from-history,-hopefully dept.

gollum123 writes "AP writes on an article in the journal Science where an ancient version of global warming may have been to blame for the greatest mass extinction in Earth's history. 'In an event known as the "Great Dying," some 250 million years ago, 90 percent of all marine life and nearly three-quarters of land-based plants and animals went extinct. Researchers think the answer is Massive volcanic flows in what is now Siberia, and believe the extinctions were caused by global warming and oxygen deprivation over long periods of time."

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  1. Money and Power by b-baggins · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    There's no grant money or political power to be gained in saying dinosaurs died from a meteor strike.

    However, if you can say they all died from global warming and...oh, NO!!! the evil Americans are doing the same thing to the planet right NOW!!! Well,then, you can get some money and influence.

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    You can tell a great deal about the character of a man by observing those who hate him.
  2. I can do it by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    ' There's no grant money or political power to be gained in saying dinosaurs died from a meteor strike '

    Yes there is. Let's try "This proves that Dumbya has the wrong priorities! He is wasting money on tax cuts for the rich that is better spent on defending us from meteor strikes!

  3. Re:Ok, I RTFM... by lommer · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Yea, but I mostly care about these results because of what we can learn about how these effects affect us. Therefore, human history (all 5000 years of it) is a much more appropriate scale to measure this on, and 10 million years is a fucking eternity...