<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="" style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;">From the release:</div><div class="" style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;"> </div><div class="" style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;">“ ...<span class="" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> new, high-resolution age data that suggests surface lava flows erupted too early to drive mass extinction."</span></div><div class="" style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;">"<span class="" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The mixture of hot, molten rock and hydrocarbon-bearing coals is thought to have set the stage for massive greenhouse gas release and global-scale climate change.</span><font color="#333333" face="Open Sans, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" class="">”</font></div><div class=""><div class="" style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><font color="#333333" face="Open Sans, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" class=""><span class="" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br class=""></span></font></div><div class="" style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><font color="#333333" face="Open Sans, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" class=""><span class="" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Full release:</span></font></div><div class="" style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><a href="https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-07/su-gon072717.php" class="">https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-07/su-gon072717.php</a></div><div class="" style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><i class="">Nature Communications</i> published the study:</div><div class="" style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;">OPEN ACCESS</div><div class="" style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-017-00083-9.pdf" class="">https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-017-00083-9.pdf</a></div><div class="" style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><br class=""></div></div><div class="">
<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++<br class="">"The most likely way the climate could be influenced by either natural or artificial means seems to be </div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">through a trigger mechanism that ultimately changes the radiation balance .... the burning of fossil </div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">fuels would presumably lead to more absorption of long-wave terrestrial radiation in the atmosphere </div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">and consequently to greater heating."</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><br class="">Abraham Oort. "The Energy Cycle of the Earth," Scientific American. September 1970<br class="">+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++<br class="">"The greatest disturbances of which we are aware are those now being introduced by man himself. </div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">Since his tampering with the biological and geochemical balances may ultimately prove injurious </div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">-- even fatal -- to himself, he must understand them better than today."<br class=""></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><br class="">Bert Bolin. "The Carbon Cycle." Scientific American, September 1970</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">****************************************************<br class="">“The atmospheric engine is subtle in it operation and delicate in its adjustments. Extra inputs of </div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">energy … can have significant and far-reaching consequences.”<br class=""><br class="">Singer, Fred S. "Human Energy Production as a process in the biosphere.” </div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">Scientific American, September 1970.</div></div></div>
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