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As soon as the Earth’s atmosphere started to become oxygenated, red beds became common. In Africa six to eight hundred million years ago, metals were flushed many times from the copper-bearing basement and rose through a pile of red beds, sabkha dolomites and black shales deposited as sea level was rising. Soluble copper (plus small amounts of cobalt, nickel and uranium) was immobilised when it met the black shales and the very large rich copper deposits of the Central African Copper Belt were deposited. The Permian Zechstein Basin (270 to 250 million years old) of the UK, North Sea, Germany and Poland contains red beds (rote Fäule), limestones and salt deposits that were a sabkha and overlying black shales deposited during a marine transgression from rising sea level. Many buildings in Europe used local rote Fäule because of its ease of shaping, strength and resistance to weathering. In northern England, France, Germany, Poland and Ukraine salt is mined from the Zechstein Basin. Huge copper deposits of eastern Germany and South West Poland were deposited by copper-rich fluids that dumped copper (and traces of precious metals) in rote Fäule, limestone and especially in black shale. In the Cretaceous (145 to 66 million years ago), the appearance of marine red beds in the oceans followed by marine black shales shows how the ocean changed from oxygen-rich to oxygen-poor. Life struggled and died in oxygen-poor water. If Melburnians escape southwards from the grips of the Sad Socialist City, they will see 128,000 to 116,000-year-old beaches seven metres above modern beaches showing that the previous interglacial was warmer than now. During this time, airports at Adelaide, Hobart, Avalon, Sydney, Newcastle, Port Macquarie, Coffs Harbour, Coolangatta, Brisbane, Maroochydore, Mackay, Townsville and Cairns were under water. The 120-million-year-old basalts on Phillip Island erupted close to the South Pole in a temperate climate associated with the exhalation of large amounts of carbon dioxide. Now tell me about human-induced climate change again. The evidence of massive natural climate cyclical changes, past atmosphere changes, oxygen and carbon dioxide cycles and sea level rises and falls is written in stone all around us. Why are the climate catastrophists blind to the bleedin’ obvious? Or do they have another agenda? Words like money, control, authoritarianism and Marxism come to mind.
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