The permo-triassic extinction was caused by vulcanism (a superplume) in Siberia. That is the most accepted hypothesis.
2014-12-12 22:36 GMT+01:00 LizR <[email protected]>: > > Has anyone noticed that it is almost exactly one galactic year since the > Permian-Triassic extinction? (96% of marine and 70% of land life died - the > only extinction event known to have wiped out insect species, apparently). > So we're back in the same part of the galaxy as we were when it > happened....last time....! > > Of course the galaxy is a dynamic thing and "the same part" loosely > defined at best, but ... something else to worry about? > > :-) > > > On 13 December 2014 at 10:26, Alberto G. Corona <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> they are -> they have >> >> 2014-12-12 22:24 GMT+01:00 Alberto G. Corona <[email protected]>: >>> >>> There are many kind of dumb people, but there are one kind of the >>> dumbest ones, for which the Western Wold produce a massive surplus >>> nowadays: the ones that think that, because they are born and they are so >>> pretty and so nice and so intelligent, and because they are iphones, plasma >>> TVs and documentaries about the universe, there would be no more >>> dictatorships, no more deaths, no more hunger, no more turmoil in his >>> country never forever again. >>> >>> 2014-12-12 21:02 GMT+01:00 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List < >>> [email protected]>: >>>> >>>> Alberto... you sound like someone who is convinced that the black >>>> helicopters are coming for you. Since you seem to thrive on paranoia and >>>> fear, let me give you some more fodder to fuel the mental fires of the >>>> paranoia squirming around inside your mind. >>>> >>>> Here is another scary fear your godless UN elites can enslave the >>>> masses with. >>>> >>>> Gamma-Ray Burst Caused Mass Extinction? >>>> <http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/04/090403-gamma-ray-extinction.html> >>>> >>>> >>>> [image: image] >>>> <http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/04/090403-gamma-ray-extinction.html> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> Gamma-Ray Burst Caused Mass Extinction? >>>> <http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/04/090403-gamma-ray-extinction.html> >>>> A stream of gamma rays aimed at Earth may have caused a mass die-off >>>> 440 million years ago, according to a new paper that says a similar >>>> celestial catastrophe could... >>>> View on news.nationalgeograph... >>>> <http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/04/090403-gamma-ray-extinction.html> >>>> Preview by Yahoo >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> ------------------------------ >>>> *From:* Alberto G. Corona <[email protected]> >>>> *To:* everything-list <[email protected]> >>>> *Sent:* Friday, December 12, 2014 3:45 AM >>>> *Subject:* Re: real A.I. >>>> >>>> There is hope anyway. For example slip the attention of the power >>>> hungry and their pawns, the obsessive people with other menaces. For >>>> example, the possible impact of an asteroid: >>>> >>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aGMDMNeWh0 >>>> >>>> To divert world efforts to create a body of the UN to conjure that >>>> menace. That way the heads of state and the megaburocracies can meet, they >>>> can increase taxes, they can marry their sons among them, the mases will be >>>> indoctrinated and will be happy with the new fears watching the TV. >>>> scientifics that are deniers of the asteroid consensus would be harrassed >>>> by prominent figures of the mass media and everyone will be happy. >>>> >>>> But I´m affraid that this would not work, unless the asteroid require >>>> harder sacrifices to the political elite, more than taxes. for example >>>> blood sacrifices. For example abortions in masse. That is the attractive of >>>> ecologism and global warming: The commitment to the cause produced by blood >>>> sacrifices and the consequent psychological slavement of women. Once you >>>> alienate women from their men, you have enslaved a country. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> 2014-12-12 11:43 GMT+01:00 Alberto G. Corona <[email protected]>: >>>> >>>> The key point is not energy, but power. Political power. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> 2014-12-12 7:20 GMT+01:00 John Clark <[email protected]>: >>>> >>>> On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 3:41 PM, meekerdb <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> > We and other species could no doubt adapt to the much warmer climate >>>> of the Carboniferous era - but not in a few hundred years. >>>> >>>> >>>> When things got super hot life adapted, and we're far more intelligent >>>> than anything that lived during the Carboniferous and the specialty of >>>> intelligence is being good at adapting quickly to changing environmental >>>> conditions. >>>> >>>> >>>> > > Did that revelation come to you in a dream? You know why the >>>> Earth was super cold 450 million years ago and super hot 360 million years >>>> ago and everything in-between since? >>>> >>>> > No it came to me reading about the Milankovich cycles. >>>> >>>> Please explain how ether the 21,000 or 26,000 or 41,000 year >>>> Milankovitch cycle can explain why the Earth was colder than it's >>>> ever been 450 million years ago and hotter than any time in the last two >>>> billion years 360 million years ago. >>>> >>>> >>>> >> No person who doesn't make his living feeding environmental panic >>>> says the global temperature is going to rise 4.5degK anytime soon, >>>> >>>> > It's the 95% upper confidence bound of the IPCC projection for >>>> 2100. >>>> >>>> >>>> Bureaucratic agencies have a survival instinct, if people thought there >>>> was no need to be in a environmental panic there would be no reason >>>> for a agency like the IPCC to exist, and I don't give a damn if they're >>>> confident I only care if they're correct and predictions about what things >>>> will be like in 85 years almost never are. For heavens sake that's like >>>> demanding that the Wright Brothers find a solution to airport congestion; >>>> if in 85 years global warming turns out to be a real problem our toolkit >>>> for fixing things will be VASTLY larger and more powerful than it is now, >>>> and in the meantime there are plenty of more important problems that need >>>> fixing right now. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> > Bullshit. You're just making up straw man "environmentalist". One >>>> of my close friends is president of the Sierra Club and he's *for* nuclear >>>> power. >>>> >>>> >>>> We've been down this road before. I don't know who your mystery friend >>>> is but I do know that the Sierra Club official website says: >>>> >>>> "The Sierra Club remains unequivocally opposed to nuclear energy." >>>> >>>> > And even those who are against it only hold that opinion because they >>>> think solar and wind can replace oil. >>>> >>>> >>>> Then they are fools. >>>> >>>> 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. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Alberto. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Alberto. >>>> -- >>>> 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. >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> 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. >>>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Alberto. >>> >> >> >> -- >> Alberto. >> >> -- >> 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. >> > -- > 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. > -- Alberto. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. 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