Seems his insight into the greenhouse effect' on Venus was fuelled by the 'full utilization' of cannabis...
Posted on 12/09/2018 8:08:53 AM PST by EdnaMode
I don’t think you have a “point.”
Bull****. Mass extinctions are caused by impacts from space. Opposition to the impact model is rooted in Carl Sagan’s global warming agenda (he didn’t start it, because he never had an original idea, he just used it constantly) and Lyell’s gradualist ‘just so’ geology.
Global warming today mirrors conditions leading to Earth’s largest extinction event, UW study says
The Seattle Times | December 7, 2018 | By Evan Bush
Posted on 12/07/2018 10:19:28 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3711303/posts
250 millions years ago the Earth’s seven continents were all grouped together into a super continent called Pangea.
There was a lot less wave action to
introduce oxygen into the water, and ocean
currents move the oxygen.
Currents in this ocean would have been simple and slow, and Earth’s climate was, in all likelihood, warmer than today.
'Cosmos' excerpt:
And yet we ravage the Earth at an accelerated pace, as if it belonged to this one generation, as if it were ours to do with as we please…. Our generation must choose. Which do we value more: short-term profits or the long-term habitability of our planetary home?…
The study of the global climate, the sun’s influence, the comparison of the Earth with other worlds, these are subjects in their earliest stages of development. They are funded poorly and grudgingly, and meanwhile we continue to load the Earth’s atmosphere with materials about whose long-term influence we are almost entirely ignorant.
Can you see the error? Sagan enters this topic with a clear animus against the profit motive and a pre-established belief that industrial civilization is “ravaging the earth.” These are the obvious cultural biases of a late-20th-century modern liberal. So he considers two alternative theories—that we are destroying the planet by cooling it down, or we are destroying the planet by heating it up—and calls for more government funding to figure out which is correct.
When I was in High School, “Earth Science” was the class that all the kids who were too chicken to take physics and chemistry took in order to fill their science requirement, because it was easy and did not involve math in any serious way. As it happens a lot of those students also chose journalism as an elective.
Permian Phartz...
This would be way before Neanderthals...
Damn meddling Russians again...
Airheads. Global warming robbed the oceans of Oxygen ? You mean like splitting the H2O molecule ? Cool man. You seem to have forgotten the gas part dude.
YEAH, AND THROWING OTHER PEOPLE’S MONEY AT IT IS NOT GOING TO DO A DAMN THING.
Sagan also claimed it would take years and years to put out the Kuwaiti oil fires started on the orders of Saddam Hussein, and that the smoke would cause drought and famine in India. As often happened he was dead wrong. Again.
Seems his insight into the greenhouse effect' on Venus was fuelled by the 'full utilization' of cannabis...
Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson: God Didn’t Name the Stars, Muslims Did...
And for my next trick, I'm going to pull a rabbit out of a hat.
It makes no sense that high levels of CO2 and heat reduced oxygen levels. Both those conditions lead to the enhanced growth of plants and plankton which would increase oxygen production. An exception would be if there was so much dust and soot in the air from the volcanic activity that it blocked the light the plants needed to grow.
Let me guess. You’re a pinhead.
There apparently is a large impact crater on the exact opposite side of the earth from the Siberian Traps. It is called the Falklands Crater, and it is west of the Falklans. See the following Link:
Massive impact crater may be hiding near the Falklands
The Chicxulub Crater that wiped out the non-avian dinosaurs about 65 million years ago is about 110 miles (180 kilometers) wide. The suspected Falklands Crater is estimated to be 155 miles (250 kilometers) wide and may be the second largest impact crater know on earth. The age of the Falklands Crater is estimated to be 250 to 270 million years old (in the ballpark of the mass extinction at the end of the Permian), but the crater has not been drilled into yet to give a better date estimate.
I've often wondered how such large impacts would affect the earth. Would the earth ring like a bell such that something like the Siberian Traps or volcanoes might occur on the opposite side of the earth where large tectonic (?) waves resulting from the impact might converge? The Deccan Traps in India are about the same age as the Chicxulub Crater. They are on the opposite side of the earth from Chicxulub but not the exact opposite location.
I'm no geologist, as you probably can tell. My sister is a PhD geophysicist though. I'll bounce it off of her.
All without one single person in sight.
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