Methane-spewing microbe blamed in Earth's worst mass extinction

Reuters ^ | March 31, 2014 | Will Dunham

[MeshugeMikey]

Sometimes bad things come in small packages.

A microbe that spewed humongous amounts of methane into Earth's atmosphere triggered a global catastrophe 252 million years ago that wiped out upwards of 90 percent of marine species and 70 percent of land vertebrates.

[MeshugeMikey]

non anthropomorphic methane caused climate change??

[Lurkina.n.Learnin]

Sure would like to have the patent on that little bugger.

[MeshugeMikey]

just think of the chaos.....

[NautiNurse]

This helps to explain why King O wants to suppress cow farts.

[Red Badger]

See? I told you that stuff was dangerous!...................

[BitWielder1]

Oh Please! It's just to scare us about the Culprit of the Week, Methane.

[MeshugeMikey]

if MICROBES....could talk....

these clowns just had to get the METHANE meme into overdrive...

[MeshugeMikey]

beware the ......microbes

run away.....run away

[MeshugeMikey]

SURVEY SAYS

BINGO...the Methane Meme Hard At Work..

FRACK THE MICROBES NOW!!

[beethovenfan]

So what happened to all that methane?

[2harddrive]

This is the way to UNLIMITED FREE NATURAL GAS!!

[ROCKLOBSTER]

humongous amounts of methane into Earth's atmosphere

Blowed up real good.

[TurboZamboni]

Now in the exclusive ‘secret recipe’ for White Castle.

[MeshugeMikey]

Amen Brother or SIster

Obummers about to give away some GREEN STIMULUS money to the first company that can pretend to be doing any MEANINGFUL Speculation on this vital matter!!

[MeshugeMikey]

were all gonna be methaned to death......

[MeshugeMikey]

it was elimi....it was eradicated by GAIA...over several billion years

ommmmmmm!

[InterceptPoint]

See. I told you what would happen if we pumped too much See-Oh-Two into the atmosphere. People will never learn. It looks like we’re in for a long dry spell for the fishermen and the hunters. But then again, there may not be that many of them left.

Where is Al Gore when we really need him. If we had spent a measly $Trillion or two, or three or four or maybe five or six or seven or eight or a thousand just 10 years ago this would never have happened.

[Uncle Chip]

We knew about them 50 years ago — we called then SBDs — and blamed a lot of things on them.

[Busko]

The mixing of junk sciences, amazing what comes out of the mouths of the fools. What’s next? Maybe it was because of the Earth was too round.

[Black Agnes]

Beat me to it. Yup. Methane demonization is on the ticket.