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What We Can Learn From The Biggest Extinction In The History Of Earth
Science Daily ^
| 8-10-2007
| Stanford University
Posted on 08/09/2007 7:47:19 PM PDT by blam
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posted on
08/09/2007 7:47:27 PM PDT
by
blam
To: blam
Approximately 250 million years ago, vast numbers of species disappeared from Earth. Bushs fault.
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posted on
08/09/2007 7:49:40 PM PDT
by
Screamname
(The only reason time exists is so everything doesn`t happen all at once - Albert Einstein)
To: blam; neverdem
Is there ANY field of science (or religious) effort now that does NOT get its funding and references from the theory of man-caused global warming?
Seriously, Newsweek claims the skeptics are well-funded (at 19 million total) but the rest of “science” gets how many billion EVERY year?
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posted on
08/09/2007 7:50:07 PM PDT
by
Robert A Cook PE
(I can only donate monthly, but Hillary's ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
To: blam
Al Gore is going to love this!
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posted on
08/09/2007 7:51:31 PM PDT
by
ari-freedom
(Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.)
To: blam
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posted on
08/09/2007 7:52:07 PM PDT
by
Cicero
(Marcus Tullius)
To: blam
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posted on
08/09/2007 7:53:03 PM PDT
by
rbg81
(DRAIN THE SWAMP!!)
To: blam
Gorebal Warning profs may soon become extinct through a massive funding decrease.
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posted on
08/09/2007 7:53:09 PM PDT
by
Paladin2
(Islam is the religion of violins, NOT peas.)
To: blam
Don’t get hit by an asteroid.
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posted on
08/09/2007 7:53:23 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(Greed is NOT a conservative ideal.)
To: Screamname
If not Bush then it’s the evil human race.
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posted on
08/09/2007 7:54:23 PM PDT
by
airedale
( XZ)
To: blam
There is no doubt in my mind that the SUV, (Saurian Unfiltered Vehicles), ran rampant over that ancient plain. Thank god that one of their descendents, Algorged, has come to his senses and has taking the lead!
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posted on
08/09/2007 7:54:37 PM PDT
by
Young Werther
( and Julius Caesar said, "quae cum ita sunt." (or since these things are so!))
To: Robert A. Cook, PE
Well funded at $19M—yeah, right. I sometimes think the politicians have promised these scientist-whores a cut of the massive carbon taxes they hope to levy. That won’t cause any bias, right?
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posted on
08/09/2007 7:55:23 PM PDT
by
rbg81
(DRAIN THE SWAMP!!)
To: blam
This end-Permian extinction is beginning to look a whole lot like the world we live in right now,” Payne said. “The good news, if there is good news, is that we have not yet released as much carbon into the atmosphere as would be hypothesized for the end-Permian extinction. Whether or not we get there depends largely on future policy decisions and what happens over the next couple of centuries.”
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I am not a climatologist, meteorologist, geologist, hell, I didn’t even sleep in a Holiday Inn last night but I will go waaaaaay out on a limb and say that this is pure BS!
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posted on
08/09/2007 7:56:11 PM PDT
by
RipSawyer
(Does anybody still believe this is a free country?)
To: blam
Correct me if I’m wrong, but didn’t most of our oil come from this extinction? Kind of ironic.
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posted on
08/09/2007 8:00:21 PM PDT
by
neodad
(USS Vincennes (CG-49) Freedom's Fortress)
To: blam
Magma extruded through coal-rich regions of the Earth's crust...Which means there were already lots of dead plants...perhaps from a previous extinction?
Extinctions happen! What makes this scientist think we can control or eliminate them?
To: RipSawyer
If volcanic activity released sufficient quantities of carbon into the air within less than 100,000 years, the Earth would have transiently cooledSo the first sign of this increased carbon dioxide disaster would be Global Cooling! I guess Al Gore has proved that everything is fine and dandy!
===> Placemarker <===
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posted on
08/09/2007 8:12:23 PM PDT
by
Coyoteman
(Religious belief does not constitute scientific evidence, nor does it convey scientific knowledge.)
To: LibFreeOrDie
Al Gore will use this to claim that human caused global warming will result in a mass extinction.
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posted on
08/09/2007 8:12:43 PM PDT
by
ari-freedom
(Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.)
To: blam
Why the dinosaurs became extinct.
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posted on
08/09/2007 8:14:40 PM PDT
by
Alouette
(Vicious Babushka)
To: blam
In the past, I had read of a meteor impact well before the Gulf event that did in the dinos. I think 250 MY ago fits the profile.
At the time, an object MUCH bigger than the gulf event struck somewhere in central Canada. It was SO LARGE, it actually flipped part of the crust over, like a pancake on a frying pan.
Not sure if it’s related or how much they know about it.
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posted on
08/09/2007 8:21:49 PM PDT
by
djf
(Bush's legacy: Way more worried about Iraqs borders than our own!!! A once great nation... sad...)
To: blam
They’re really getting desperate. They’re searching for ANYTHING these days to support their agenda.
What we can learn is that there’s just not much we can do about it. Controlling man-made CO2 is just spitting into the wind.
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posted on
08/09/2007 8:25:34 PM PDT
by
metmom
(Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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