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moultano on June 24, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: What's Really Warming the World?

This has happened several times before, and killed much of the life on earth. In a bit of cosmic irony, the life that was killed in previous anoxic events is what turned into the fossil fuel we're burning today. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anoxic_event#Occurrence

jonah on June 24, 2015 [–]

The BBC just posted this article[1]. Pretty good review of the Anoxic extinctions.

[1]"The Devonian extinction saw the oceans choke to death" http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20150624-the-day-the-oceans-d...

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