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Methane Parallels Drawn Between Great Dying and Today's Warming

Original: RE: https:// mastodon.social/@CelloMomOnCar s/115558808571870834 Methane featured a lot in the Permian-Triassic extincti

Commenters are comparing methane's role in the Permian-Triassic extinction, the largest mass extinction in Earth's history around 252 million years ago, with rising methane emissions today. One reader notes the ancient release unfolded over roughly a million years, whereas current greenhouse gas increases are happening far faster, making the present situation unprecedented in speed even if smaller in scale.

Why now: Renewed attention to methane as a potent greenhouse gas has people drawing historical parallels with ancient mass extinctions.

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• RE: https:// mastodon.social/@CelloMomOnCar s/115558808571870834 Methane featured a lot in the Permian-Triassic extinction event that I've been reading about recently. It won't be as bad as that was, but then that also happened over the scale of a million years rather than a… · Lazarou · 3

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