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Environment & Energy

kristopher

(29,798 posts)

4. That is certainly a line of inquiry worth investigating.

Reply to Bob Wallace (Reply #2)

Mon Dec 12, 2011, 04:28 PM

Dec 2011

However, a previous event (Permian Extinction) related to elevated CO2 levels on that scale drove 75% of ocean species and 90+% of terrestrial critters into extinction. The ocean event was particularly rapid because at a certain point the methane clathrates thawed and poisoned the water with massive quantities of methane.

To quote Muhammad Ali, "If the right one don't get you, the left one will".