How's this for global climate change

Ever heard of Siberian Traps?

Apparently, 250 million years ago a mantle plume came up from the planet's core in what is today Siberia and caused a volcanic eruption on a scale that is all but impossible to comprehend by today's standards -- a flood basalt event.

Siberian Traps were the largest volcanic eruption in Earth's last 500 million years.

How about them numbers. The eruption:

•  lasted over a million years continuously at full intensity, coinciding with and perhaps directly contributing to the Great Permian Extinction
• expelled about 4 million cubic kilometers of material, with many individual eruptions bringing 2000 cubic kilometers at a time. For comparison, one of the largest explosive eruptions of the 20th century -- Mt Pinatubo in 1991 -- ejected just 25 cubic kilometers of material, plunging the global temperature by 0.5 degrees Celsius the next year;
• covered 2 million square kilometers of surface still visible today with lava 2 kilometers deep
• created the giant Norilsk nickel-copper-palladium deposits, formed in the main magma vents of the Traps.

American Business as explained by Calvin and Hobbs

Help the US economy!

Marc Farber's comment on the US economy:

The federal government is sending each of us a $600 rebate.

If we spend that money at Wal-Mart, the money goes to China.
If we spend it on gasoline it goes to the Arabs.
If we buy a computer it will go to India.
If we purchase fruit and vegetables it will go to Mexico, Honduras and Guatemala.
If we purchase a good car it will go to Germany.
If we purchase useless crap it will go to Taiwan and none of it will help the American economy.

The only way to keep that money here at home is to spend it on prostitutes and beer, since these are the only products still produced
in US. 

I've been doing my part.

via lkoyfman 

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