Are we all doomed sooner than we think?
The actual effects of global warming and subsequent knock on effects are, as we know, hotly debated both ways, but reading these articles, it does make me wonder whether the current position, whatever it's causes, could spell the end for much of life on Earth within a much smaller space of time that perhaps we might like to believe?
It seems have been a possibility for the Permian–Triassic extinction event, 250 million years ago.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-18120093
http://palaeo.gly.bris.ac.uk/Essays/wipeout/default.html

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Jump to unread Post a CommentYou may as well eat & drink yourself to death then...
"Churchill stopping drinking Thread and losing weight advise"
Sleep well.
Are you saying we should stockpile stamps, jerrycans, & pasties again?
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Water is probably in short supply in many counties at present too.
In the Matrix, Agent Smith likens the human race to a virus consuming all the local resources to exhaustion and moving on. How true.
It is true. I also think it's funny how in Hollywood films Aliens often come to our planet to farm us out and destroy us, in all probability we'd do that to any Alien planet we found, like Avatar, rather than the Futurame style world I'd like!
In the Matrix, Agent Smith likens the human race to a virus consuming all the local resources to exhaustion and moving on. How true.
It is true. I also think it's funny how in Hollywood films Aliens often come to our planet to farm us out and destroy us, in all probability we'd do that to any Alien planet we found, like Avatar, rather than the Futurame style world I'd like!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9TdvN07ZWI :p
I've built my massive space rocket, God told me to do it and bring two of each species with me, bl**dy jellyfish are a pain in the bum tho.