What We Can Learn From The Biggest Extinction In The History Of Earth

Science Daily ^ | 8-10-2007 | Stanford University

[Screamname]

Approximately 250 million years ago, vast numbers of species disappeared from Earth.

Bushs fault.

[Robert A Cook PE]

Is there ANY field of science (or religious) effort now that does NOT get its funding and references from the theory of man-caused global warming?

Seriously, Newsweek claims the skeptics are well-funded (at 19 million total) but the rest of “science” gets how many billion EVERY year?

[ari-freedom]

Al Gore is going to love this!

[Cicero]

Al Gore burped?

[rbg81]

We’re doomed!

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3802032285333380788&q=fedex

[Paladin2]

Gorebal Warning profs may soon become extinct through a massive funding decrease.

[cripplecreek]

Don’t get hit by an asteroid.

[airedale]

If not Bush then it’s the evil human race.

[Young Werther]

There is no doubt in my mind that the SUV, (Saurian Unfiltered Vehicles), ran rampant over that ancient plain. Thank god that one of their descendents, Algorged, has come to his senses and has taking the lead!

[rbg81]

Well funded at $19M—yeah, right. I sometimes think the politicians have promised these scientist-whores a cut of the massive carbon taxes they hope to levy. That won’t cause any bias, right?

[RipSawyer]

This end-Permian extinction is beginning to look a whole lot like the world we live in right now,” Payne said. “The good news, if there is good news, is that we have not yet released as much carbon into the atmosphere as would be hypothesized for the end-Permian extinction. Whether or not we get there depends largely on future policy decisions and what happens over the next couple of centuries.”
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I am not a climatologist, meteorologist, geologist, hell, I didn’t even sleep in a Holiday Inn last night but I will go waaaaaay out on a limb and say that this is pure BS!

[neodad]

Correct me if I’m wrong, but didn’t most of our oil come from this extinction? Kind of ironic.

[LibFreeOrDie]

Magma extruded through coal-rich regions of the Earth's crust...

Which means there were already lots of dead plants...perhaps from a previous extinction?

Extinctions happen! What makes this scientist think we can control or eliminate them?

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

If volcanic activity released sufficient quantities of carbon into the air within less than 100,000 years, the Earth would have transiently cooled

So the first sign of this increased carbon dioxide disaster would be Global Cooling! I guess Al Gore has proved that everything is fine and dandy!

[Coyoteman]

===> Placemarker <===

[ari-freedom]

Al Gore will use this to claim that human caused global warming will result in a mass extinction.

[Alouette]

Why the dinosaurs became extinct.

[djf]

In the past, I had read of a meteor impact well before the Gulf event that did in the dinos. I think 250 MY ago fits the profile.

At the time, an object MUCH bigger than the gulf event struck somewhere in central Canada. It was SO LARGE, it actually flipped part of the crust over, like a pancake on a frying pan.

Not sure if it’s related or how much they know about it.

[metmom]

They’re really getting desperate. They’re searching for ANYTHING these days to support their agenda.

What we can learn is that there’s just not much we can do about it. Controlling man-made CO2 is just spitting into the wind.