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

Re:Oh really?

[MacDork]

So Global Warming looks like a comet?

Yeah. Actually, It does. See, here's how it works. You preach enough Global Warming fire and brimstone and all the telescope money gets spent on worthless computer models. Hence, when a planet killer does show up out of the blue, the money that could have been spent on real science that could have saved us instead went to a stupid religion.

I have a question for you global warmers... Why don't you tell us how the planet managed to go into an ice age 450 million years ago when the CO2 concentrations were at 4400 PPM compared to our current 370... I'm waiting.

Could it be that CO2 is like a warm blanket. Keep adding CO2 and it's like adding blankets. Throw an extra blanket on your bed and you're warmer. Throw two extra blankets on your bed and you're warmer still. Throw an extra 30 blankets on your bed and you're not really that much warmer than you were with three blankets. Oh wait!! Fire and brimstone! Fire and brimstone!! And boogie men! Sleep under 30 blankets and you'll combust spontaneously! Oh my gawds, its teh global warmins!!

Re:Volcanos and warming

[TapeCutter]

"For starters, I don't "want" anything"

Heh, my ex used to say that all the time.