Deccan Traps hypothesis has been around a long time. Just before the Chicxulub impactor, atmospheric CO2 was running around 1500ppm – most of the world’s landmass was swamp and jungle. For reference, the current period of global warming/climate change has been precipitated by a change in atmospheric CO2 from 250 to 425-ish over the last 150 industrialized years.
The greenhouse effect was in full swing by the late Triassic, in other words.
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Deccan Traps hypothesis has been around a long time. Just before the Chicxulub impactor, atmospheric CO2 was running around 1500ppm – most of the world’s landmass was swamp and jungle. For reference, the current period of global warming/climate change has been precipitated by a change in atmospheric CO2 from 250 to 425-ish over the last 150 industrialized years.
The greenhouse effect was in full swing by the late Triassic, in other words.