Showing posts with label Permian mass extinction. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Permian mass extinction. Show all posts
Thursday, April 16, 2015

The biggest extinction ever known on Earth resulted from oceans turned acid by CO2, the main gas driving human-caused climate change today

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by Tim Radford,  Climate News Network , April 16, 2015 LONDON  − Scientists have identified the lethal agency that caused the single most ca...
Friday, July 4, 2014

Newsweek: The Disaster We’ve Wrought on the World’s Oceans May Be Irrevocable

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by Alex Renton, Newsweek , July 11, 2014 In the great halls of La Boqueria, Barcelona’s central market, tourists, foodies and cooks gat...
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Friday, April 4, 2014

Alarming new study makes today’s climate change more comparable to Earth’s worst mass extinction

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by howardlee, Skeptical Science , April 2, 2014 The Permian Mass Extinction 251.9 million years ago, otherwise known as “The Great Dying,”...
Saturday, April 20, 2013

Andrew Glikson: Another link between CO2 and mass extinctions of species

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by Andrew Glikson , The Conversation , March 22, 2013 It’s long been known that massive increases in emission of CO 2 from volcanoes, ass...
Saturday, March 3, 2012

Oceans' acidic shift may be fastest in 300 million years

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Oceans' acidic shift may be fastest in 300 million years by  Deborah Zabarenko , Reuters, March 1, 2012  (Reuters) - The world'...
Monday, February 20, 2012

Global Extinction: Gradual Doom as Bad as Abrupt

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Global Extinction: Gradual Doom as Bad as Abrupt by John Hartz, Skeptical Science , February 20, 2012 This is a reprint of a  press release ...