Global Warming: Under a Green Sky

I recently read an article from Google News about the sky turning green, the oceans turning purple and mass extinctions of all land animals due to hydrogen-sulfide producing bacteria. This occurred when "prolonged volcanic activity spewed huge amounts of carbon dioxide and other gases into the atmosphere. "There was a short-term rapid increase in carbon dioxide. High C02 increases greenhouse temperatures on the planet.

Over thousands of years, that spike in CO2 and the resulting worldwide heat wave had nasty consequences. Winds ceased, ocean currents died and most marine life vanished from too much heat and too little oxygen.

Things got even worse. "These warm anoxic oceans produced [surface] blooms of hydrogen sulfide-producing bacteria. Enough of that went into the atmosphere to kill land animals and land plants and cause the ozone to disappear as well."

Records show that environmental change began to accelerate when atmospheric CO2 hit 1,000 parts per million. Today's levels are one-third of that and rising.

Ward says the earth's time clock is ticking toward a mass extinction that mimics the past

Looking at the ancient evidence, Ward notes that ice caps began to shrink. "Melting all the ice caps causes a 75-meter increase in sea level. [That] will remove every coastal city on our planet." It will also cover earth's most productive farmland, the author warns, adding, "It will happen if we do not somehow control CO2 rise in the atmosphere."

So, what to do? This article says to stop driving.