As per usual the media is at least two steps behind me. It seems they have just clued in that we have triggered earth's latest hot house mass extinction (link below). The reporter, like most people who think they know all about earth's history, is still stuck on the 6th mass extinction meme. The information that the mass extinction we are triggering, the one we are living, is the 8th mass extinction (known) not the 6th and anyone with an internet connection can find that info in 5 seconds. My guess is people are in awe of NYT best selling author Elizabeth Kolbert. Don't want to show her up ...waiting for permission from some PTB
Human behaviour is volcanism on steroids.
Study: We Are Emitting Carbon Dioxide 200 Times Faster Than Super-eruptions That Caused Mass Extinctions"Mass extinctions resulting from supervolcanic activity were found to be due chiefly to enormous, rapid emissions of carbon dioxide, as opposed to the gentle, glacially slow natural carbon cycle; and opposed to other phenomena related with super-eruptions. Sudden, massive release of CO2 and other greenhouse gases seem to have pushed the global environment beyond a tipping point, acidifying the oceans and lifting temperatures to deadly levels."
https://www.haaretz.com/science-and-hea ... 8bbb1e0000....
The two newly discovered mass extinctions that make it 8 (known)
Ice HouseFossils reveal a previously unknown mass extinction event“A new study published in the journal Nature Communications Biology has recently reported on a previously undocumented mass extinction event that occurred after the transition from the Eocene to the Oligocene geological period, approximately 30 million years ago.
The event was caused by dramatic climate change that transformed the swampy lands of Africa and the Arabian Peninsula into icy landscapes, and resulted in the extinction of 63 percent of the Earth’s species.”
https://www.earth.com/news/fossils-reve ... ion-event/Hot HouseNewly discovered mass extinction event triggered the dawn of the dinosaurs
“Huge volcanic eruptions 233 million years ago pumped carbon dioxide, methane and water vapour into the atmosphere. This series of violent explosions, on what we now know as the west coast of Canada, led to massive global warming. Our new research has revealed that this was a planet-changing mass extinction event that killed off many of the dominant tetrapods and heralded the dawn of the dinosaurs. ”
https://theconversation.com/newly-disco ... urs-146248