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submitted 2 weeks ago by Dort_Owl@hexbear.net to c/memes@hexbear.net

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[–] oscardejarjayes@hexbear.net 16 points 2 weeks ago

I think gigantic mass extinction events are really what we've been missing lately, I applaud all the effort that's gone into bringing them back.

[–] sunshine@lemmy.ml 14 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

help I don't know

[–] Dort_Owl@hexbear.net 16 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

The Great Dying, the worst extinction event in Earths history, happened before dinosaurs even existed.

[–] blunder@hexbear.net 18 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Damn everything that caused The Great Dying is everything we are actively doing to the atmosphere

[–] Dort_Owl@hexbear.net 13 points 2 weeks ago

yea

[–] WrongOnTheInternet@hexbear.net 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

approximately 3,900 to 12,000 gigatonnes of carbon being added to the ocean-atmosphere system during this period

We only add about 10 gigatons a year, for reference

[–] blunder@hexbear.net 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Wow that's a lot of carbon then

(reading your username) and yet......

[–] WrongOnTheInternet@hexbear.net 1 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah, did you see OP's picture? It makes the Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum look like the Sturtian glaciation