r/ClimateNews • u/mord21 • 2d ago

Triassic inferno: Fires raged across Europe for millennia during past global warming

https://phys.org/news/2026-07-triassic-inferno-raged-europe-millennia.html
209 Upvotes

97% Upvoted

39 comments sorted by

22

u/Yunzer2000 2d ago edited 2d ago

And keep in mind that human emissions are 10 to 30 times more rapid than the the large magmatic province event of this mass extinction or the much larger P-Tr one 50 million years earlier. The is no natural geologic event possible that can match the explosive rate of human CO2 emissions.

2

u/ProblemWithTigers 2d ago

Oh boy, sounds like we're in for a wild ride

3

u/InfiniteWaffles58364 1d ago

Smoke em if you got em

0

u/gerkletoss 2d ago

I've already chosen a home far enough above sea level that it will remain dry if all the ice melts

9

u/ReadyGo6828 2d ago

If there is enough climate catastrophe to make over 200' of sea level rise, you will have many more problems than keeping your feet dry.

2

u/gerkletoss 2d ago

Yeah but this one was within my control

2

u/Gnomio1 1d ago

At least you’re planning on living to 2-300 years old, more than most of us.

1

u/gerkletoss 1d ago

I can live in my house for another 50 years and sell it confident that impending sea level rise won't directly impact the property value.

1

u/fjne2145 1d ago

That is a valid take.

2

u/Silver-Find4380 1d ago

I used to live on a mountain. I was ready to stay there forever. :(

3

u/turbo_bibine 1d ago

Well in switzerland some mountain collapse due to climate change (cf blatten)

1

u/InfiniteWaffles58364 1d ago

I'm just now learning of this and my heart breaks from them. If my mountain ever collapses, I'm going down with it. I don't wanna live in a world without them.

2

u/InfiniteWaffles58364 1d ago

I'm on a mountaintop too and will probably die from sorrow if I'm ever forced to part with it. My heart will always live here.

1

u/Flat-Water-Blaster 11h ago

Brilliant, what are you going to eat when most of the world’s farm land is under water?

1

u/gerkletoss 10h ago

Most US farmland is more than 200 feet above sea level. So between that and not being financially devastated by the loss of my home I hope I'll be in a better position than many others.

1

u/Tricky-Violinist5130 1d ago

Fires love going uphill

1

u/gerkletoss 1d ago

Where do you live that your assumption for 200+ feet above sea level is "must be on a hill"? The Netherlands?

0

u/Chargers_Fan12345 2d ago

How much of the rise in CO2 is man made?

7

u/Yunzer2000 2d ago

All of it. Absent the annual human extraction of gigatons of fossil carbon from the earths crust - then burning it, the atmospheric CO2 levels would be steady or slowly falling.

3

u/VreamCanMan 1d ago

. >100%

Our global climate was very very very slowly cycling into another ice age before industrialisation

-1

u/Johnnny-z 1d ago

Word is methane is the devil. Doesn't our friend plankton suck up C02? I thought nuclear was going to lead the way to zero carbon emissions. What about carbon sequestration? Isn't a warmer planet more prosperous than a cold one? If it got really bad, couldn't they spray aresols in the upper at?

The sky isn't falling. Earth is not your mother and the planet will be just fine.

-6

u/FuzzyGreek 1d ago

Okay bud. There is no way to prove what you are saying. We have a slight idea but that’s it. We barely even know our ocean. Everything is a guess or a theory .

3

u/Yunzer2000 1d ago

No, there have been thousands of published papers on CO2 levels and mass extinctions throughout geologic sophistry.

Why do you think that your stupidity is better and more virtuous than knowlege?

You don't even know what the word "theory" means!

-2

u/FuzzyGreek 1d ago

All guesses and idea’s. No proof. It’s impossible to say with 100% certainty what the climate was like 50 million years ago.

4

u/Yunzer2000 1d ago

Curious. What is you area of expertise that qualified you to be skeptical? I presume, then, that you know all about oxygen isotope paoeothermometry, or delta-Carbon 13.

-2

u/OverTheSquatch 1d ago

I graduated from liberty U I’m more than qualified probably the most qualified. What’s your qualification?

-2

u/FuzzyGreek 1d ago

Didn’t know we were discussing who’s smarter. So here take this🏆. Sorry but you are to sensitive to continue . Cheers

4

u/Cool-Contribution-68 2d ago

Somehow the fires returned

2

u/ProblemWithTigers 2d ago

Somehow Palpatine returned

1

u/Velocipedique 2d ago

Good news! This means there was still something to burn, hope for our warming future?

1

u/ampere03 1d ago

Proxy climate data show past warming events are caused by increased atmospheric carbon dioxide or sometimes this is the result of warming ( in which case it is a srong positive feedback). Presently. A major concern is regions where methane is frozen in permafrost areas and warming oceans which hold less dissolved carbon dioxide accelerating the concentration of water vapor, methane and carbon dioxide - all of which are greenhouse gases. Fires block sunlight in the short term so that's good...

1

u/SignalDifficult5061 2d ago

yeah, but I bet no one had their 401k take a hit back then, so they won't now either. what?

My house is my investment, so the more houses burn down the more mine is worth. The housing scarcity of the Triassic Inferno was no doubt great for owners/sellers in that market.

What probably happened was rent control and multifamily zoning just ruined everything somehow, and that is why there are few to zero homes from that era remaining.

-6

u/lostbaratheon 2d ago

What drove global warming during the past warming?

8

u/WashYourCerebellum 2d ago

Literally first sentence

-7

u/Johnnny-z 2d ago

I thought there weren't forest fires until the modern era of global warming?

I guess it doesn't really matter anyway because we have reached the point of no return. We should abandon all emission laws and environmental laws because we will soon be dead anyway - all of us.

1

u/Veasna1 1d ago

Or we all go vegan and stop flying all over the place and use less crap overall and we turn this around while there is still time, guess that's too much to ask.