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>> This is only one of a dozen effects of global warming that are just as terrifying. If we burn all the world’s remaining fossil fuels, there is only one precedent in the climate record for the warming that will occur. It happened at the end of the Permian period 251 million years ago, when the world warmed by 6 degrees. The result? Almost everything on Earth died. A solitary pig-sized creature, the Lystrosaurus, had the land to itself for another 30 million years. Hansen’s is the only nonfiction book to ever give me nightmares. <<

IDIOT!!!! The Permian Extinction was not caused by the warming of the planet a mere 6 degrees, but by other factors, one such factor may have been rapidly increased volcanic activity and another theory could have been Gamma Ray Burst leaving to massive amounts of Nitrous Oxide int he Atmosphere, NOT CO2. Plus at the time we had a “Super Continent” called Pangea which could have increase the effects of some of the above mentioned causes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permian%E2%80%93Triassic_extinction_event

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Almost everything on Earth died. A solitary pig-sized creature, the Lystrosaurus, had the land to itself for another 30 million years.

What did it eat?