Sometimes you do not try and engage in a constructive discussion to figure stuff out.
Everyone sometimes doesn't try to engage in constructive conversation, but such conversation is the norm for me. Constructive conversation, doesn't mean accepting your points as correct, or letting you control the direction of the conversation.
You just pound away with so much stuff
Issues are often complex, and require a lot of "stuff" to understand.
Did you watch the utube video I supplied about the Permian age?
I might reasonably have some reluctance to watch a 10 minute video (even a long post on SI can be read much faster than that), and then discuss it with someone, who is so quick to ignore what people do say to them, but fine I'll do it.
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Ok, so I spent the 10 minutes watching the video. What's your point about it?
I don't expect anything like the eruption of the Siberian traps to happen any time soon (and if it does, there is nothing we can do about it). In addition to the direct effects, the traps were apparently near both coal filled areas (and could have ignited more coal than humans have ever burnt) releasing additional quantities of CO2 beyond that from the traps themselves, and also parts of the eruption zone were near seas, the heat from the eruption could have fairly directly lead to a large amount of methane release from those seas.
Also the Earth is different in other ways. For example, we aren't in the last phases of the construction of a super continent like Pangea. There hasn't been any sea level changes anything like what occurred during that time.
And the video didn't give any reason to think we might face an enormous anoxic event in the oceans (which apparently did happen in the Permian extinction, and would have directly lead to a great drop in marine life, and could have made conditions favorable for sulfate reducing bacteria, which would have emitted large amounts hydrogen sulfide (which is poisonous, and also harms the ozone layer) |
