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Old 02-20-2012, 02:55 AM   #136 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by jamesqf View Post
But not predating goats or intensive grazing :-)
Goats made it stop raining? As it is, the dry cycle for the Sahara seems to be ending, and it might well be turning back into a savannah within our (at least, my) lifetime.

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It's illuminating to consider that the closest natural analog to the current warming is probably the Permian-Triassic extinction event: Permian
Not quite, unless you are planning on covering 2,000,000 square miles of the Earth's surface with lava. I'm not sure that even Dr. Evil could pull that off.

Our current, global climate isn't even as high as it was speculated to be during the Cretaceous Period.
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