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Letter: Planetary flatulence

Published 30 May 1998

From Alan Sherwood

“It was the Earth’s biggest ever fart,” begins Fred Pearce’s article “Winds of change”
(2 May, p 34). Then comes the line: “Between a half and two-thirds of
all bottom-dwelling animals disappeared.”

Well, I’m not surprised. Motto: don’t set up house in the bowels of the Earth.

South Yarra, Australia

Issue no. 2136 published 30 May 1998

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