Thom Hartmann: Dr. Paul Wignall on The Permian Extinction

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[DhhD]

1. Additional information on the Permian temperature rise:

Major Permian extinction event temperature was a global average of 80 degrees F or 22.26 degrees C, which is a rise of 12.1766 degrees C above the 1990 means temperature of the Earth of 14.49 degrees Celsius.

http://carolynbaker.net/2012/12/02/global-extinction-within-one-human-lifetime-as-a-result-of-a-spreading-atmospheric-arctic-methane-heatwave-and-surface-firestorm/

[sabrina 1]

2. What I don't get is that those who are working to cover this all up have to live on this planet

also. Do they think they will be immune, their children eg? I makes no sense.

[Enthusiast]

4. They believe they will only have to turn up the air conditioning.

Seriously.

[inch4progress]

5. But, but it's science so it must be wrong, at least thats what the far right wants us to believe.

Upton Sinclair once said, “It is difficult to get a man to understand a thing when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.”

This is the best way to summarize the mindbending results of the climate change study the Pew Research Center released on Monday, which found that more than one in two conservative Republicans—and more than a third of moderate Republicans—refuse to believe that the planet is getting warmer.

Let’s get one thing out of the way: It is a measured, observable fact that the Earth’s average temperature has been rising for the last several decades. Indeed, eleven of the twelve hottest years on record occurred between 2001 and 2011. This is not a theory about why this is happening; it is a measurable—and measured—fact that it is happening.

Yet disconcertingly large numbers of people on the right seem unable to accept it: the Pew study found that only 63 percent of moderate Republicans and 49 percent of conservative Republicans believe the climate is changing, while 93 percent of those who identify as liberals (and 90 percent of moderate Democrats) believe it. What is going on?
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/10/17/the-vast-right-wing-conspiracy-to-lie-about-climate-change-has-worked.html

[Enthusiast]

6. The Permian world was an interesting one.

It was populated by the bizarre mammal-like reptiles.

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