Pittsburgh ping.
Coal killed the Dinos Ping.
Did Jennifer go to journalism school to write sentences this contorted or did it just come naturally to her? Can coal become molten or does it just burn?
A great explosive burning of coal set fire and made molten by lava bubbling from the Earth’s mantle , looking akin to Kuwait’s giant oil fires but lasting anywhere from centuries to millennia, could have been the cause of the world’s most-devastating mass extinction, new research suggests.”
Is it just me seeing this or have reporters generally lost the ability to compose sentences and spell correctly?
As for the theory, who cares? This announcement simply looks like another tenure seeking prof pimping for grants.
Maybe I've just gotten too cynical, but I suspect this is intended as some kind of support for EPA's determination to shut down the coal fired power industry.
I suppose The Not So Great Dying was the second-largest of all the mass extinctions, then.
So coal had to have been formed more than 250 million years ago, like millions of years before the 250 million years ago. Takes awhile to form coal from vegetation.
"Hey Karl, careful with that! You'll start a fire!"
My question is simple, Where did the plant matter for the coal come from? As I understand it, it takes massive amounts of plant matter being laid down over millenia and then being covered by soil and rock and then compressed to make coal.
On the other hand it could have been massive peat bog fires which can be VERY smoky and last for years.
In any case, it’s a theory and to prove it one way or another is going to take a lot of research which in turn needs massive grants to fund the researchers. Which I suspect is the real reason for the theory in the first place.
Wow. Global coaling.
If only the great messiah Obama was there to stop it. B-P
According to the show “How the Earth was Made”, the massive fissure eruption that split open the earth’s crust caused the coal fires underground. It lasted for 20 million years and the earth was essentially dead for 25 million years after that. It created the Steppes in Siberia.
Wait, wait, wait. Environmentalists are always trying to stop everything and anything from ‘extinction’ in a bid to save the planet and its biodiversity.
You mean to tell me that a massive extinction occurred and Gaia survived?
search blam for article on impact crater in antarctica (and postulated partially australia). It certainly relates to the topic.
Haven’t been out to research, yet will do when have time ... remembering those three bluish things coming in from the south toward the southern hemisphere due to arrive in late 2012. Has this been proved a hoax? Had read some interesting info early on about six months ago, and have not researched since. If anything is found (when checking) will post a link or two.