Mikko Tuomi<p>At the end of the <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/Permian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Permian</span></a>, around 252 million years ago, volcanoes in the Siberian Traps spewed lava over an area almost the size of Australia, igniting massive wildfires, burning vast oil and coal deposits, and pouring <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/greenhouse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>greenhouse</span></a> gases into the <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/atmosphere" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>atmosphere</span></a>.</p><p>After such apocalypses, Earth’s <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/climate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>climate</span></a> typically reverts more or less to normal within 80 000–200 000 years, thanks to the interaction of the global carbon and silica cycles via <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/silicate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>silicate</span></a> weathering.</p><p><a href="https://eos.org/articles/clays-may-have-slowed-earths-recovery-after-the-great-dying" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">eos.org/articles/clays-may-hav</span><span class="invisible">e-slowed-earths-recovery-after-the-great-dying</span></a></p>