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Did a massive burp kill off 50% of marine life? ... is history repeating itself?

Saturday, October 15, 2011 12:46

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Micha Ruhl, a paleo-ecologist at Utrecht University in the Netherlands, suggests that a massive burp of methane that had been stored under the ocean in ice-like structures called clathrates was instead the cause. Methane is a more potent greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide, so it could have led to a very rapid period of climate warming. The paper is in this week’s edition of the journal Science.

Did a massive burp kill off 50% of marine life?
HERE By Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY
Updated 2011-07-22 10:56 AM
Did a giant burp pave the way for the dinosaurs?

Researchers looking at ancient fossil chemicals from waxy leaves think it might have.

They suggest that the end of the Triassic age, 201 million years ago, was caused by a 20,000-year-long burp of methane from beneath the ocean floor.

The global warming it caused killed off 50% of marine species then alive.

Previous theories suggested that volcanic eruptions caused by the break-up of the global continent Pangaea caused the climate shift.

Using calculations based on the amounts of carbon isotopes from the waxy surfaces of land plants, the researchers found that at least 12,000 gigatons of methane were injected into the atmosphere in under 20,000 years.

Because the volcanic activity is known to have gone on for 600,000 years, they suggest the methane deposits, and the climate change they caused, were more likely the reason for the extreme die-off that marked the beginning of the Jurassic period – and the rise of the dinosaurs.

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A Process of Evolution

(The Vision)

Oh Ancient Guide, keeper of time,
we seek now Divine direction.
Earth’s violent spew, is emptying her bowels,
from this black ash, souls need protection.

Oh dreaded times, earth’s purging begun,
things as they were, shall end.
The skies above are searing with heat,
who shall survive, till the end.

A beckoned call, sent forth 7 disk,
7 angels took flight.
They cast a beam, of quantum time,
to hide a people, from sight.

Outside the beam, evolution took place,
all suffered in the smothering rain.
Inside the beam, all life were safe,
and thus flourished, the Neanderthal man.

Is history repeating itself?
written by Isis Baha Allah Baha 1980

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