This climate scientist has tried really hard to get a date | Howard Lee

A date for disaster: the end-Permian mass extinction event.

Seth Burgess has, literally, travelled to the ends of the Earth to find a date. Along the way he has endured attacks of giant flesh-eating bee-flies, paddled a raft 60 miles in driving Siberian rain, braved volcanoes in Alaska, and inhaled polluted air in China for weeks on end, all the while hauling pounds of rocks. And all in the name of Science.

The date he seeks plays extremely hard to get.