27-05-2015 15:05 via theguardian.com

How fossil fuel burning nearly wiped out life on Earth – 250m years ago

New evidence shows that catastrophic climate change probably destroyed 96% of species at the end of the Permian period. It could happen againDo you want to know the real reason for the advances by Islamic State in Iraq and Syria? Changing lightbulbs in America. This is the explanation given by John McCain, Republican chair of the Senate armed services committee. At the weekend he blamed Barack Obama’s inability to magic away Isis on the president’s belief that climate change is “the bigges
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