Wednesday October 7, 2009, 2:51 pm
Thank you Gorilly. Another interesting one.

Friday October 9, 2009, 1:49 am
Gorilly, you find some awesome stuff! Babies and history and more! Thank you for sharing!

Friday October 9, 2009, 6:23 am
Fascinating stuff. I wonder if this mass extinction is the way the planet earth heals itself from excessive animal habitation like humans?
Thanks Gorily Girl

Friday October 9, 2009, 6:34 am
Right there with you, Tierney. Thanks , Gorilly!

Friday October 9, 2009, 7:06 am
Thannnxxx Gorrilly Girl.. we won't guess how old it is..???? But thannnx for the article

Friday October 9, 2009, 12:17 pm
The mass extinctions were caused by ice ages and asteroids. The article doesn't talk about "mass extinctions" anyway!
It does assume that "fossil fuel" includes more than coal. There is more and more evidence to support the idea that oil and gas are manufactured by the earth itself.

Speaking of the past....one can show that there is no correlation over the long haul that CO2 correlates with temperature.

There have been period of high CO2 during Ice Ages and low CO2 during warm ones.

"Average global temperatures in the Early Carboniferous Period were hot- approximately 20° C (68° F). However, cooling during the Middle Carboniferous reduced average global temperatures to about 12° C (54° F). As shown on the chart below, this is comparable to the average global temperature on Earth today!

Similarly, atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the Early Carboniferous Period were approximately 1500 ppm (parts per million), but by the Middle Carboniferous had declined to about 350 ppm -- comparable to average CO2 concentrations today!

Earth's atmosphere today contains about 380 ppm CO2 (0.038%). Compared to former geologic times, our present atmosphere, like the Late Carboniferous atmosphere, is CO2- impoverished! In the last 600 million years of Earth's history only the Carboniferous Period and our present age, the Quaternary Period, have witnessed CO2 levels less than 400 ppm."

http://www.geocraft.com/WVFossils/Carboniferous_climate.html

Friday October 9, 2009, 3:11 pm
Thanks Gorily Girl

Friday October 9, 2009, 3:19 pm
According to 61% of Americans in a recent poll less than 10,000 old years and flat. Also apparently over 50% of you literally believe in The Rapture; what colour is the sky there these days?

Friday October 9, 2009, 6:29 pm
Round the last time I looked up ;-) how old?
Tx Goriily very interesting.

Saturday October 10, 2009, 12:11 am
Very interesting Gorilly,I wonder,,,,,how old is Mother Earth?

Saturday October 10, 2009, 12:24 am
Now since when does a lady tell her real age? Mother Earth not exempted!!

Saturday October 10, 2009, 1:01 am
When i was a child the "modern" textbooks said Earth was 2 MILLION years old - It seems that the older I get, the older Earth gets, by a huge exponential factor * LoL*

Saturday October 10, 2009, 1:43 am
Judy says "It does assume that "fossil fuel" includes more than coal. There is more and more evidence to support the idea that oil and gas are manufactured by the earth itself."

No, there isn't. That's yet another one of her absurd ideas.

"Speaking of the past....one can show that there is no correlation over the long haul that CO2 correlates with temperature. There have been period of high CO2 during Ice Ages and low CO2 during warm ones."

Your own source contradicts you!

{{{"Average global temperatures in the Early Carboniferous Period were hot- approximately 20° C (68° F). However, cooling during the Middle Carboniferous reduced average global temperatures to about 12° C (54° F). As shown on the chart below, this is comparable to the average global temperature on Earth today!

Similarly, atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the Early Carboniferous Period were approximately 1500 ppm (parts per million), but by the Middle Carboniferous had declined to about 350 ppm -- comparable to average CO2 concentrations today!}}}

What happened was that the vast coal deposits of that period locked away so much CO2 that it caused the ice age that followed, thus PROVING the correlation between CO2 levels and global temperatures.

{{{The Carboniferous Period and the Ordovician Period were the only geological periods during the Paleozoic Era when global temperatures were as low as they are today. To the consternation of global warming proponents, the Late Ordovician Period was also an Ice Age while at the same time CO2 concentrations then were nearly 12 times higher than today-- 4400 ppm. According to greenhouse theory, Earth should have been exceedingly hot. Instead, global temperatures were no warmer than today. Clearly, other factors besides atmospheric carbon influence earth temperatures and global warming.}}}

DUH! The Sun was also slightly cooler back then. Indeed, the Sun, as it converts hydrogen into denser helium in its core, is naturally getting hotter over time. 4 billion years ago, Earth must have had an atmosphere of mostly CO2, like Venus does today, and the Sun was much cooler as well. But the evolution of photosynthetic life (including land plants) provided a way for the excess CO2 to be taken out of the atmosphere. Such life may not have arisen on Venus, leading to its runaway greenhouse effect. On Earth, carbon is now locked away in the form of coal, oil and natural gas. If we were to return all that carbon to the atmosphere by burning all that fossil fuel, and the Sun is hotter now than it was hundreds of millions of years ago, then that means the Earth will eventually grow even warmer than it was in the early Carboniferous! It may take hundreds of years to happen, but it WILL happen if we do not give up fossil fuels! The laws of chemistry dictate it.

Saturday October 10, 2009, 4:14 am
Hmmmmmmm maybe she is pointed like most stars are depicted....LOL

Big gorilly Hugs

Saturday October 10, 2009, 7:49 pm
'Ho old is the Earth" I was fascinated by the subject since the First grade. My eighth grade homeroom teacher
took the time to tell us about the geological epochs and put up picture and charts.

Who ever said that when they first heard about the earth's age it was 2 million years and it ". . has been increasing exponentially" The two million year estimate is so far back that the writer is showing age. Sittiing in one place too long would put the writer in danger of fossilization

Dale Husband deserves thanks for taking the time to dig this out and post it while we sit and make wise cracks.

Saturday October 10, 2009, 7:53 pm
Frank my posts are just outta fun...trust me I LOVE mother earth and all her beauty...whats left of it anyway....If I really thought she was flat I wouldnt go sailing...and I think her age needs to just be one of those things unawnserd....Yes Frank I have always been fasinated by her also. You know I tried to dig to china once??? You think I really got there...LOL Uh the hole I made mum and dad were not pleased...But funny things you can find out about her when you dig...dirt, shale, rock all kinds of obsitcales she puts out there to keep one from getting to her heart...

Big gorilly Hugs

Saturday October 10, 2009, 8:02 pm
Hugs to you too.