From: "Mark" 

Apparently then, we have an abundance of time Rich 

I'm all for researching away, same will help in the long run to develop
adaptation routines, the only true solution. I am sick, though, of hearing
about all the economically detrimental stuff we should be doing right now
because a bunch of die-hard politically correct "scientists" want
to push their unproven BS upon us. 



"Rich Gauszka"  wrote in message
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> Most of us are saying there needs to be more research and to see what we
> can do about emissions that will speed up the warming trend. The Permian
> extinction occurred over thousands of years.  There is time.
>
>
> "Mark"  wrote in message
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>> And with a 10,000:1 ratio against the most powerful things humans have
>> been able to devise in their entire history, you still propose that we
>> have rats chance in hell of modifying what the Earth feels like
>> delivering upon us? > pie-in-the-sky outlook to me>
>>
>> "Rich Gauszka"  wrote in message
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>>>
>>> "Geo"  wrote in message
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>>>> "Robert Comer" 
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>>>>
>>>>> possibility.  We've had 95% mass extinctions just because the
>>>>> temperature
>>>>> went up 10F.
>>>>
>>>> It seems to me we've had mass extinctions because of
abrupt change due
>>>> to
>>>> meteor strikes or because if ice ages but not because the
temperature
>>>> went
>>>> up. When the temperature goes up, life flourishes.
>>>>
>>>> Geo.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> The raising of temperature and the release of  frozen methane hydrates
>>> from the ocean  may have caused the worst mass extinction in history.
>>> It's still subject to debate whether the release was due to global
>>> warming, meteor strike or volcanic activity or a combination
>>>
>>> http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/stories/s938770.htm
>>>
>>> The situation would have been much worse in the Permian era, he said.
>>> Ryskin calculated that prehistoric oceans could easily have contained
>>> enough methane to liberate an energy about 10,000 times greater than the
>>> world's entire nuclear weapons stockpile going off at once.
>>>
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