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babsbunny Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-10-09 06:56 PM
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Last Time Carbon Dioxide Levels Were This High: 15 Million Years Ago, Scientists Report
Last Time Carbon Dioxide Levels Were This High: 15 Million Years Ago, Scientists Report

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/10/091008152242.htm]

ScienceDaily (Oct. 9, 2009) — You would have to go back at least 15 million years to find carbon dioxide levels on Earth as high as they are today, a UCLA scientist and colleagues report Oct. 8 in the online edition of the journal Science.

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imdjh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-10-09 06:59 PM
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1. Yeah, and some idiot said, "We've got to cut back on carbon 'pollution', the sky is falling!!!"
Edited on Sat Oct-10-09 07:00 PM by imdjh
And so they did. And a catastrophe fell upon the earth so great that we haven't yet found the remnants of that great civilization, one which had intergalactic travel and dozens of advanced species. Nice job earth weenies. We were plunged backward into social and technical degeneracy.
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