Global Warming May Have Killed the Dinosaurs

The Fun Guy sent in a link to the American Society for Microbiology site, your leading news source for everything between nano and macro. The site is featuring a story about new research into the KT barrier extinction: the period in history where the dinosaurs went extinct, along with a number of other families of species. For a number of years scientists have theorized that an impact on the Yucatan peninsula was responsible for the species crash, but microbiological examination of marine organisms of the time indicate life persisted for another 300,000 years after the 'Chicxulub impact'. The researchers at Princeton who made this discovery theorize that global warming caused by a volcanic eruption in India is a more likely culprit for the world-wide devastation. The article generalizes that there is no 'smoking gun' for this event, and further research is required.

Comments

Irony Alert

[suckmysav]

Ironically, the dinosaurs are playing a leading role in our own Global Warming Saga.

Re:Irony Alert

[Anonymous Coward]

yes.. zombie dinosaurs..from beyond the grave *cue scary music*

Re:Irony Alert

[MarkRose]

Just like your average America, a dinosaur doesn't fit in a compact car. Can you blame them for driving SUVs?

Re:Irony Alert

[Virak]

Just like your average America, a dinosaur doesn't fit in a compact car. Can you blame them for driving SUVs?

To be fair, most countries can't fit in any sort of vehicle.

Re:Irony Alert

[NiceRoundNumber]

To be fair, most countries can't fit in any sort of vehicle.

Well, The Vatican can fit on a Supertanker. Almost.

Re:Irony Alert

[maxwell demon]

Indeed, the bible reports a temporary rising of the sea level above any land. That proves that there was a huge global warming problem, back then. It also demonstrates the danger of such global warming: Except for one family, all humans died.

However, the bible nowhere mentions that there were no cars before the Flood. Granted, it also doesn't mention that there were cars. But if there were no cars, there surely shouldn't have been such a drastic global warming. So the Flood proves that there were cars before. The bible also reports that the Flood came due to the sins of the people. Therefore we can conclude that driving cars is a sin.

SCNR :-)

Re:Irony Alert

[Monsuco]

Well, given the choice between being extinct and having to watch movies made by Al Gore, I would choose extinction, I guess the dinosaurs choose the same thing too.

Well, THERE'S the problem!

[Bwana Geek]

Obviously, the government needs to enforce reductions in volcanic emissions. In order to save our planet, we need to progress toward the use of more environmentally-friendly natural disasters.

Re:Well, THERE'S the problem!

[Hawthorne01]

Either that, or get the dinosaurs to drive hybrids and install CFL bulbs.

What caused it?

[Anonymous Coward]

I wonder what the dinosaurs were driving or what other kinds of industrialization they had back then to cause their global warming because obviously global warming can't be caused by any natural or astronomical event. The majority of our scientists have have agreed on that, so it's got to be true.

Sh*t...I got sarcasm all over my keyboard. It'll take weeks to clean this up now.

Nah, everybody knows the real reason

[istartedi]

Nah. Everybody knows the real reason they died out.

Re:Iridium layer

[kettch]

How do they explain away the layer of iridium rich clay (around the world) from around the time of the mass extinction. Current theory says it's vaporized impact material.

Easy, that is explained here (search for iridium)

Current global warming problems are explained here

Re:simple-minded scientists

[pipingguy]

Thanks. Can you distill this down to a simple yes or no? I need to know because I'd like to Friend or Foe you, but I am unsure about how you stand on global warming.

Also, is oil really made from dead dinosaurs?