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Re:On the Trail of the Denisovans by slashdev on Saturday March 02, 2024 @05:31PM (#39576353)
It would have to be worse than the previous volcanic extinction events, which were massive. It's not clear the Earth can even do that anymore.
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Re:On the Trail of the Denisovans by nicklecompte on Saturday March 02, 2024 @05:39PM (#39576413)
> It's not clear the Earth can even do that anymore.

This is a good point, but the event wouldn't need to be more volcanic so much as that volcanism would need to ignite more carbon-containing materials - naively I would expect there to me more "fuel" in the Earth than there was 300m years ago.

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Re:On the Trail of the Denisovans by slashdev on Saturday March 02, 2024 @06:48PM (#39576930)
That's also a good point
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