Permian

The Blob Could Have Devastated Global Ecologies the Last Time Climate Changed Anywhere Near as Fast as it is Changing Today

By Bruce Melton PEImpacts

This one is stranger than strange. scientists have long been puzzled by what looked like fungal bodies that seem to cover many fossils of different kinds from what is called the end-Permian. This “end-Permian” is how the end of the Permian Epoch is described. It’s also called Permian Triassic Extinction 251 million years ago when…

September 5, 2011

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Permian Extinction Included Massive Forest Die-off Caused by Abrupt Climate Change Fungus:

By Bruce Melton PEForest Mortality

“The death of the forests – primarily comprised of conifers, which are distant relatives of today’s pines and firs – was part of the largest extinction of life on Earth, which occurred when today’s continents were part of one supercontinent, Pangaea. The so-called Permian extinction likely was triggered by immense volcanic eruptions in what is…

August 20, 2011

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Remember, average global warming over land is double the global average because of the cooling influence of our oceans and ice sheets, or 3.56 degrees C in December (6.4 F). and the average over the arctic is four times the global average or 7.12 C (12.8 F). Importantly, the increase in extreme temperature is far greater than the average, and extreme weather increases nonlinearly because of the basics of heat and energy physics, where a little warming does not create a little more extremeness in the weather, it creates a lot more.

The Blob Could Have Devastated Global Ecologies the Last Time Climate Changed Anywhere Near as Fast as it is Changing Today

Permian Extinction Included Massive Forest Die-off Caused by Abrupt Climate Change Fungus:

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