The word is Methane.
Peter listed the myriad ways we could have the end of the world as we know it. (Sing with me nowÖ)
Weíre talking seriously large time scales here, far beyond my tiny human brain can conceive. But kudos to the man for making a few picture worth a thousand word correlations.
For example, itís about location, location, location.
Apparently there is a limited band of good real estate. The outer periphery of our galaxy is too something, but I remember it was bad. The galactic doughnut hole was also bad as there is greater liklihood of supernovas, black holes and rogue comets taking us out. Weíre in a fairly safe backwater.
Getting hit only once with a mondo comet in our earth history is actually a pretty good track record.
Comet. WHAM! 60% of life on earth. Phht.
But that was nothing compared to an earlier catastrophe where huge amounts of methane were released into the atmosphere. There, 90% Phhbbbt.
Why should we be concerned? The earth has been fairly stable for a long time. Swings in temperature in either direction ñ tropical dinosaur-like heat or glacial mastadon-like cold = BAD.
His suggestion? Vote for somebody who cares about the Kyoto Agreement.
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