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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. ancient global warming by Mz6 · · Score: 0, Troll

    ...yet somehow they'll find a way to blame it all on George W Bush.

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    Hmmm.
    1. Re:ancient global warming by jav1231 · · Score: 0, Troll

      Uh..and what could any president have done about global warming 250 million years ago? Seriously! If Kerry had been president then could it have been stopped? No. If the Kyoto Accord had been signed, coculd it have been stopped? No. With so much evidence pointing to global warming being a natural phenomenon, the Kyoto Treaty is looking more like a joke.

  2. They had SUVs too?!? by drsmack1 · · Score: -1, Troll

    You can't tell me that you can have global warming with mankind! It takes pure evil to cause global warming and that evil is MAN! To infer that ANYTHING BAD on this planet happens despite and in disregard to man's efforts is a afront to the basic narcisism that all liberalism is based. That prevents me from hearing this information and now I cannot even remember what we were talking about. This is all mindless propaganda from right-wing religeous fanatics - shit, wait a sec. Michael Moore is on and I have to go - last time I missed him I was unable to know how to think on a particular issue and it was quite frightening!

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    Humor from a Genetically Molested Mind

  3. Re:"mini" Ice Age by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
    The new ice age fear was on the front page of a number of promenent papers. GW fears just a few years ago said that by now NYC would be under water. Did you see the day after tomorrow? FUD in a feature length film based on pure BS from the left/wackadoo's (Kerry called Algore a wackadoo, so the most liberal member of the Senate thinks Algore is crazy - quite an achivement) like Algore. You are a victum of propaganda from the left with their junk science. The same people who told us Saccharin causes cancer - a lie. Also the same people that say DDT is terrible - another lie but that one kills millions of people worldwide because DDT is used to kill mosquitoes, now they get malaria and other mosquito borne diseases, all because of a lie.

    You stupid (as in a stupor, not that you are dumb) people seem to have been asleep during history in school. There have been doom sayers going back 2000 years and probably beyond. Look in the mirror and call yourself chicken-little. They sky is just fine, thank you.

  4. Believe in the Word of God! by Jagasian · · Score: -1, Troll

    Do not believe these lies! They go against the Word. Evolution and other scientific theories are not facts and nothing more than the lies of Satan! Truth can only be found through Jesus Christ and the Word.