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   From: jtem01@gmail.com   
      
   On 10/7/25 5:27 AM, Chris Voigtlander wrote:   
   > Dinosaurs were huge animals and they ate a lot of things that made them   
   > fart.   
   >   
   > That's the climate story lesson for today.   
      
   Life changes the earth.   
      
   The very first mass extinction event -- also known as "The Great   
   Oxidation Event" -- was caused by life producing oxygen. Another   
   major event was Snowball Earth.   
      
   Snowball Earth was an "Ice Age" so massive that some speculate   
   that the entire surface of the planet froze over!  Now the   
   most common planet-coolers are volcanoes but, volcanic activity   
   that freeze the whole earth? Nope. However, one explanation that   
   does work is life. If life saturated the atmosphere with   
   Dimethyl Sulfide, which is a planet-cooler, that all by itself   
   may have sparked a Snowball Earth scenario. Coupled with a   
   volcanic winter and all the sulfur from volcanoes and it's all   
   the more likely.   
      
   Life itself, just having things live changes the earth, and   
   always has.   
      
      
      
      
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