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An Early Mass Extinction Event Cooked Our Planet and Erased Most Life

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An international team of researchers used climate models and plant fossils to link the Great Dying with an 18-degree Fahrenheit rise ( 10 degrees Celsius ) in average global temperatures.

Volcanoes in modern-day Siberia spewed 100 trillion metric tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere over the span of a million years .

The study provides insight on how humanityâs carbon dioxide emissions might dramatically change the planet.