This is one vision of what it might have been like to visit the world as it ended 250 ma BP during the end-Permian mass extinction—the worst moment in the planet’s entire history. There might have been turbocharged “hypercanes” of almost unbelievable intensity assaulting the supercontinent Pangaea—the result of runaway global warming. These mega-storms might have had 800 km/h winds, filled with poisonous hydrogen sulfide sucked out of a rotting ocean that topped 37 celsius.

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