Credit: Conor Haynes-Mannering, University of Nottingham
Posted on 05/19/2025 7:51:06 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Fossil pollen from the end-Permian extinction reveals increased UV-B protection compounds, linking volcanic activity, ozone loss, and ecosystem collapse during Earth's most severe mass extinction.
Scientists from China, Germany, and the UK led by Prof. LIU Feng from the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (NIGPAS) have revealed that pollen preserved in 250-million-year-old rocks contains abundant compounds that function like sunscreen but are produced by plants to protect themselves from harmful ultraviolet (UV-B) radiation.
The presence of these compounds suggests that a pulse of UV-B played an essential role in the end-Permian mass extinction event...
Accompanying this global warming event was a collapse of the Earth's ozone layer. Support for this theory comes from the abundant occurrence of malformed spores and pollen grains that testify to an influx of mutagenic UV irradiation.
(Excerpt) Read more at scitechdaily.com ...
Siberian Traps.
That looks like it might make a good ride at Disney World.
Afrin could sponsor it.
They could call it THE DARK HORRORS OF POLLEN.
The animals could jump out at you.
At the end Ellen Degeneres could tell you to stick things up your nose.
Musta been some really powerful deodorants, back then.
Let’s see........ President Trump has a secret time machine. He sent thousands of SUVs back in time to destroy the ozone.
Fast forward to today.
President Trump is making it easier for evil capitalists to produce and drive the SUVs.
There is no evidence, but it is the seriousness of the charges that counts. President Trump will be called before Congress to PROVE he does not have a time machine.
Those wooly mammoths used so much dang AquaNet, the hydrochloroflourocarbons released destroyed the ozone layer! Took forever for the Earth to recover!
So the ozone layer vanished at least once long before man was around so many couldn’t have caused it.
Volcanoes can’t be stopped any more than giant meteors...
I thought it was SUVs and wooden stoves.
Nah.
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