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Methane-spewing microbe blamed in Earth's worst mass extinction
Reuters ^ | March 31, 2014 | Will Dunham

Posted on 03/31/2014 2:36:25 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey

Sometimes bad things come in small packages.

A microbe that spewed humongous amounts of methane into Earth's atmosphere triggered a global catastrophe 252 million years ago that wiped out upwards of 90 percent of marine species and 70 percent of land vertebrates.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...


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non anthropomorphic methane caused climate change??
1 posted on 03/31/2014 2:36:25 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey
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To: MeshugeMikey

Sure would like to have the patent on that little bugger.


2 posted on 03/31/2014 2:38:32 PM PDT by Lurkina.n.Learnin
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To: Lurkina.n.Learnin

just think of the chaos.....


3 posted on 03/31/2014 2:39:47 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ( "Never, never, never give up". Winston Churchill)
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To: MeshugeMikey

This helps to explain why King O wants to suppress cow farts.


4 posted on 03/31/2014 2:40:01 PM PDT by NautiNurse (Obama sends U.S. Marines to pick up his dog & basketballs. Benghazi? Nope.)
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To: MeshugeMikey; thackney

See? I told you that stuff was dangerous!...................


5 posted on 03/31/2014 2:40:10 PM PDT by Red Badger (LIberal is an oxymoron......................)
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Oh Please! It's just to scare us about the Culprit of the Week, Methane.

6 posted on 03/31/2014 2:40:55 PM PDT by BitWielder1 (Corporate Profits are better than Government Waste)
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To: NautiNurse

if MICROBES....could talk....

these clowns just had to get the METHANE meme into overdrive...


7 posted on 03/31/2014 2:40:58 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ( "Never, never, never give up". Winston Churchill)
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To: Red Badger

beware the ......microbes

run away.....run away


8 posted on 03/31/2014 2:41:36 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ( "Never, never, never give up". Winston Churchill)
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To: BitWielder1

SURVEY SAYS

BINGO...the Methane Meme Hard At Work..

FRACK THE MICROBES NOW!!


9 posted on 03/31/2014 2:42:44 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ( "Never, never, never give up". Winston Churchill)
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So what happened to all that methane?


10 posted on 03/31/2014 2:42:51 PM PDT by beethovenfan (If Islam is the solution, the "problem" must be freedom.)
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This is the way to UNLIMITED FREE NATURAL GAS!!


11 posted on 03/31/2014 2:43:00 PM PDT by 2harddrive
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humongous amounts of methane into Earth's atmosphere

Blowed up real good.

12 posted on 03/31/2014 2:43:17 PM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (Celebrate "Republicans Freed the Slaves" Month.)
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Now in the exclusive ‘secret recipe’ for White Castle.
13 posted on 03/31/2014 2:44:09 PM PDT by TurboZamboni (Marx smelled bad and lived with his parents .)
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To: 2harddrive

Amen Brother or SIster

Obummers about to give away some GREEN STIMULUS money to the first company that can pretend to be doing any MEANINGFUL Speculation on this vital matter!!


14 posted on 03/31/2014 2:44:25 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ( "Never, never, never give up". Winston Churchill)
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To: ROCKLOBSTER

were all gonna be methaned to death......


15 posted on 03/31/2014 2:44:57 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ( "Never, never, never give up". Winston Churchill)
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To: beethovenfan

it was elimi....it was eradicated by GAIA...over several billion years

ommmmmmm!


16 posted on 03/31/2014 2:45:48 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ( "Never, never, never give up". Winston Churchill)
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See. I told you what would happen if we pumped too much See-Oh-Two into the atmosphere. People will never learn. It looks like we’re in for a long dry spell for the fishermen and the hunters. But then again, there may not be that many of them left.

Where is Al Gore when we really need him. If we had spent a measly $Trillion or two, or three or four or maybe five or six or seven or eight or a thousand just 10 years ago this would never have happened.


17 posted on 03/31/2014 2:48:29 PM PDT by InterceptPoint
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We knew about them 50 years ago — we called then SBDs — and blamed a lot of things on them.


18 posted on 03/31/2014 2:55:50 PM PDT by Uncle Chip
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The mixing of junk sciences, amazing what comes out of the mouths of the fools. What’s next? Maybe it was because of the Earth was too round.


19 posted on 03/31/2014 2:56:54 PM PDT by Busko (The only thing that is certain is that nothing is certain.)
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Beat me to it. Yup. Methane demonization is on the ticket.


20 posted on 03/31/2014 2:58:07 PM PDT by Black Agnes
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