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silence7@slrpnk.netM to Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.@slrpnk.netEnglish · 18 hours ago

It’s a Gas | There have been five great mass extinctions on Earth: four have been the result of carbon dioxide flooding into the atmosphere and raising the temperature.

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It’s a Gas | There have been five great mass extinctions on Earth: four have been the result of carbon dioxide flooding into the atmosphere and raising the temperature.

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silence7@slrpnk.netM to Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.@slrpnk.netEnglish · 18 hours ago
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It’s a Gas | Bill McKibben
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I’m writing this in the last days of the northern hemisphere’s autumn in 2025. Over recent weeks we’ve seen a hurricane hit Jamaica with wind speeds a few

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    Meanwhile, crocodiles and sharks:

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    The carbon-silicate cycle. I suggest everyone watch The Deadliest Pattern in Nature on youtube.

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      He was theorized to use floods. Turns out his methods were different

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    That sounds like a gross oversimplification to me.

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      how so? it’s consistent with everything i’ve read and i welcome opportunities to examine my blind spots

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    The fifth was oxygen flooding the atmosphere and cleansing everything. But over a long period of time.

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      There have been five great mass extinctions on this earth, and except for the last one, which was triggered by the asteroid strike that killed the dinosaurs, all have been the result of carbon dioxide flooding into the atmosphere and raising the temperature.

      The oxygen one is before those big five.

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        Oh, my bad, I admit I only skimmed the text :(.

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      That one is not so documented because it happened before creatures with hard parts, and not one he is including.

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