On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 11:39 AM, Chris de Morsella <[email protected]>wrote:
> > > *On Behalf Of *LizR > > > >> >> I must admit I've heard the extinction rate is way higher than usual - >> asteroid / methane burp high. (Although if it's us or them, as I said, >> that's a different story...) >> > > >Liz - it is not hearsay [...] There is substantial, incontrovertible > evidence that the extinction rate has literally spiked through the roof. > That's not just hearsay it's idiotic. 66 million years ago 2/3 of all species, not individual animals but entire species, became extinct quite literally overnight, and 252 million years ago it was even worse, the extinction rate was 90%. What we're experiencing now is not even a burp. > That this is so should really make thinking people question why? > It's no great mystery why some animals become extinct today, it's because 7 billion large mammals of the exact same species have spread from the pole to the equator, and that has never happened before. It would have been amazing if a event like that didn't cause a few animals to join the 99.9% that have already gone extinct in the last 3 billion years. John K Clark -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
