[backwoods-engineer]

"The pattern and timing of recovery can tell us something about how life today might recover after human-induced crises," said researcher Michael Benton, a vertebrate paleontologist at the University of Bristol in England.

Oh my God. These idiots are trying to tie Gore-bull warming to the Permian extinction event. That event had NOTHING to do with life-generated CO₂; it was primarily vulcanism, from what I remember from extensive reading back when I was really interested in this.

[Bernard Marx]

it was primarily vulcanism, from what I remember

Geologists associate the great Permian extinction with the Siberian Traps volcanism that spewed out 1.5 million times as much lava and associated nasty gases as Mt. St. Helen's.