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2019-08-17 15:44:12 UTC
Hydrogen Sulfide Is A Nasty Way For Life On Earth to Die
http://morphizm.com/css/whats-hydrogen-sulfide-a-nasty-way-to-die/
"You can find hydrogen sulfide in swamps, sewers, landfills, volcanic and natural gases, and pretty much everywhere there is a petroleum refinery. Unfortunately, you can also usually find it whenever and wherever you’ve got mass extinctions.
"In fact, it is hydrogen sulfide, rather than killer asteroids or some other interstellar death-bringer, that has possibly become the go-to kill-shot of most mass extinctions in Earth’s history.
“It doesn’t take much hydrogen sulfide to kill off anything,” Gerry Dickens, professor of earth science and paleoceanography at Rice University, told me by phone.
"He should know: It was Dickens’ work with methane hydrates that completed the puzzle of the Permian-Triassic extinction event, more aptly known as the Great Dying, in the 2002 BBC Horizon documentary The Day the Earth Nearly Died."
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"There’s bad stuff before you even get to hydrogen sulfide,” Ward concluded. “And there’s not much you can do about any of it, in terms of geoengineering. The simple solution is to reduce global greenhouse-gas emissions, and do it now. Here’s the scary thing that can happen: Human extinction. Let’s get serious.”
You can imagine the newscaster, "5000 Californian's died from hydrogen sulfide poisoning yesterday."
http://morphizm.com/css/whats-hydrogen-sulfide-a-nasty-way-to-die/
"You can find hydrogen sulfide in swamps, sewers, landfills, volcanic and natural gases, and pretty much everywhere there is a petroleum refinery. Unfortunately, you can also usually find it whenever and wherever you’ve got mass extinctions.
"In fact, it is hydrogen sulfide, rather than killer asteroids or some other interstellar death-bringer, that has possibly become the go-to kill-shot of most mass extinctions in Earth’s history.
“It doesn’t take much hydrogen sulfide to kill off anything,” Gerry Dickens, professor of earth science and paleoceanography at Rice University, told me by phone.
"He should know: It was Dickens’ work with methane hydrates that completed the puzzle of the Permian-Triassic extinction event, more aptly known as the Great Dying, in the 2002 BBC Horizon documentary The Day the Earth Nearly Died."
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"There’s bad stuff before you even get to hydrogen sulfide,” Ward concluded. “And there’s not much you can do about any of it, in terms of geoengineering. The simple solution is to reduce global greenhouse-gas emissions, and do it now. Here’s the scary thing that can happen: Human extinction. Let’s get serious.”
You can imagine the newscaster, "5000 Californian's died from hydrogen sulfide poisoning yesterday."