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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. Re:ancient global warming by ackthpt · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    ...yet somehow they'll find a way to blame it all on George W Bush.

    You misspelled C-H-U-R-C-H O-F S-C-I-E-N-T-O-L-O-G-Y

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  2. Re:Teh by operagost · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I think the "Funny" far outweighs the "Troll" in this post. Wish I had mod points.

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  3. Re:It wasn't volcanic warming . . . by Seoulstriker · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Don't be a smartass. Everyone knows that early dinosaurs took public transportation. It was those pesky cro-magnons who drove to work in their massive HUVs (hunting-utility vehicles) by themselves in the carpool lanes.

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  4. Re:Here's my theory... by EvilTwinSkippy · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    It needs more sex.

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  5. Re:Here's my theory... by JaredOfEuropa · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    It needs more sex
    Speak for yourself :)
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