Hi there and thank you for allowing me to be a part of your journey today.

I'm your host KTown and you're listening to Mysterious Radio.

My special guest tonight is Peter Ward and he's here fresh from helping prove that an asteroid had killed the dinosaurs turned to the Permian problem and he has come to a stunning conclusion in his investigations of the fates of several groups of mosques.

During that extinction and others he discovered that the near total devastation at the end of the Permian period was caused by rising levels of carbon dioxide leading to climate change but it's not the heat nor the humidity that's directly responsible for the extinctions.

And the story of the discovery of what is responsible makes for a fascinating globe spanning adventure.

Peter's book is called Under a Green Sky where he explains how the Permian extinction as well as four others happened and describes the freakish oceans,

belching poisonous gas and the sky slightly green and always hazy that would have attended them.

Those ancient upheavals demonstrate that the threat of climate change cannot be ignored.

At least the world's life today, ourselves included, face the same dire fate that has overwhelmed our planet several times before and you can get Peter's book Under a Green Sky on Amazon in Kendall, Hardcover and also Payverback.

Now here's Peter Ward.

I studied dead animals and so a big question we have is what killed them.

There's times of like, not all death but there's times of mass death and there's a big correlation between the greenhouse gases going up really fast and all kinds of stuff going into the ground dead really fast.

Now, okay, so let's talk about this period of concern that people like you have looked at to try and find out what actually caused a mass extinction to happen during Earth's history.

Can you forgive me?

I don't know how you pronounce it is Permian period.

That's it. Okay, Permian period. They've got to send a mountains in Russia.

So they were the first to find fossils of that age. So they named it after those mountains. So at least it's a simple Russian name.

And they call it the great dying, I guess. I guess that's what they call them.

I mean, this is we tell the intelligence trying to make things a little more manageable digestible. This was a colleague of mine.

Another person called it the mother of all mass extinctions, but that really is insulting mothers all over.

So let's just say it was the biggest that we know of.

There you go. I like it. All right. Now let's let's talk about it because you know, we are hearing more and more about climate change.

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