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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.
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The article generalizes that there is no 'smoking gun' for this event, and further research is required. (my italics for emphasis)
Isn't that better than generalizing that it had to be the volcanoes?
Money is the root of all evil?
Dinosaurs had an evil exploitative capitalistic society? Who would have thunk it...
p.s. I would post more, but I'm recycling ascii characters in an effort to save the planet.
Don't blame me, I didn't vote for either of them!
Offtopic, but I'm curious about your sig: "It is a statistical certainty (p < 10e-11) that there are innocent people being held at Guantanamo Bay"
This sig is Y2K compliant.