[Old Sarge]

the volcanic rocks, which cover an area about the size of Alaska

Code for Sarah Palin's fault...

[Reaganesque]

How the Dinosaurs went extinct:

Pull my finger!!

[Explodo]

carbon based Global Warming...Oh Really.

[Old Sarge]

Searing magmas from the volcano

MAGMA!

[Lazamataz]

How dinosaurs REALLY went extinct:

[devere]

scientists? Lately the world’s most overused and abused word.

[Oldpuppymax]

Two hundred and fifty million years ago? AHA...pre catalytic converter days, huh? Well no wonder!

[Cicero]

But there is still a lot of uncertainty surrounding the findings, Linda Elkins-Tanton of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology said.

You betcha! But if they renew her grant, she'll make more astounding discoveries, I'm sure.

Meantime, we should send Al Gore back in a time machine to collect the carbon credits from that evil volcano.

[Tijeras_Slim]

I am become Death, the shatterer of Worlds.

[Between the Lines]

So what is exactly the news here? That the discovery channel finally discovered it?

The Day The Earth Nearly Died - programme summary

[ChessExpert]

Researchers have known about the Siberian Trap for years:

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[SunkenCiv]

Toxins may have doomed ancient forests
Discovery | July 14, 2009 | Michael Reilly
Posted on 07/15/2009 7:23:55 AM PDT by decimon
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2293105/posts

[SunkenCiv]

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[Mike Darancette]

Now a team of researchers led by Henrik Svenson of the University of Oslo in Norway have performed a series of experiments, showing the volcano employed an arsenal of deadly weapons during its 200,000-year-long assault on the biosphere.

Prime among them was carbon. Searing magmas from the volcano intruded into the Tunguska Basin in eastern Siberia, a region laden with thick deposits of coal, oil and gas. Heat from the molten rock baked the hydrocarbons, turning the area into the world's largest fossil fuel-burning plant. In all, the volcano may have belched as much as 100,000 gigatons of carbon into the air (all of humanity emits about eight gigatons of carbon annually).

So 100,000 gigatons in a 200,000-year-long assault comes to .5 gigatons/year this is a joke right? Not near enough carbon to do any harm.

[Gene Eric]

"Stupid" volcanoe ping.

[Gene Eric]

>> “Heat from the molten rock baked the hydrocarbons,...”

OMG, secondary effects - not possible!

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Heat from the molten rock baked the hydrocarbons, turning the area into the world's largest fossil fuel-burning plant.

ROFL....I bet they have an application in for a grant!

[concentric circles]

I recently read this interesting narrative regarding the “Great Permian Extinction.”

“This period marks the end of pivotal evolutionary development in marine life and the opening of the transition period leading to the subsequent ages of land animals.”

“This age was one of great life impoverishment. Thousands of marine species perished, and life was hardly yet established on land. This was a time of biologic tribulation, the age when life nearly vanished from the face of the earth and from the depths of the oceans. Toward the close of the long marine-life era there were more than one hundred thousand species of living things on earth. At the close of this period of transition less than five hundred had survived.”

“The peculiarities of this new period were not due so much to the cooling of the earth’s crust or to the long absence of volcanic action as to an unusual combination of commonplace and pre-existing influences—restrictions of the seas and increasing elevation of enormous land masses. The mild marine climate of former times was disappearing, and the harsher continental type of weather was fast developing...”

“Land was rising all over the world as the ocean beds were sinking...”

“Two new climatic factors appeared—glaciation and aridity. Many of the earth’s higher regions had become arid and barren...”

“Gradually the inland lakes and seas were drying up all over the world. Isolated mountain and regional glaciers began to appear...”

“Throughout these times of climatic change, great variations also occurred in the land plants. The seed plants first appeared... The insects underwent a radical change. The resting stages evolved to meet the demands of suspended animation during winter and drought...”

“The gradual cooling of the ocean waters contributed much to the destruction of oceanic life...”

[VOA]

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