It's Back to the Future — By About 300 Million Years!

onSep 8, 2007 @ 08:24 PDT

The emerging story of a global climate shift a third of a billion years ago seems to be a prequel to what climate scientists expect from the current trend in global warming.

Using the same sort of Global Circulation Models as those which predict climate change today, University of Michigan researcher Christopher Poulsen and his colleagues have reproduced what might have happened on the supercontinent Pangea in the late Paleozoic era, about 300 million years ago, when the polar ice melted.

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uk/Paul Marshall ‘Cashing in on Climate Chaos’ After Leap in Fossil Fuel Investments, Critics Say

BySam Bright

onJul 6, 2026 @ 09:04 PDT

The GB News co-owner’s hedge fund has multiplied its oil and gas holdings.

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Canadian Gas CEOs Are Hyping AI Data Centres to Investors as a Lifeline for Their Industry

ByMitch Anderson

onJul 2, 2026 @ 12:13 PDT

Investor call transcripts show that gas companies see the data centre build-out as their next growth sector, even as the energy transition accelerates.

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