Posted on 03/04/2010 1:37:39 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY
LONDON (Reuters) - A giant asteroid smashing into Earth is the only plausible explanation for the extinction of the dinosaurs, a global scientific team said on Thursday, hoping to settle a row that has divided experts for decades.
A panel of 41 scientists from across the world reviewed 20 years' worth of research to try to confirm the cause of the so-called Cretaceous-Tertiary (KT) extinction, which created a "hellish environment" around 65 million years ago and wiped out more than half of all species on the planet.
Scientific opinion was split over whether the extinction was caused by an asteroid or by volcanic activity in the Deccan Traps in what is now India, where there were a series of super volcanic eruptions that lasted around 1.5 million years.
The new study, conducted by scientists from Europe, the United States, Mexico, Canada and Japan and published in the journal Science, found that a 15-kilometre (9 miles) wide asteroid slamming into Earth at Chicxulub in what is now Mexico was the culprit.
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Bush’s fault.
It wasn’t Bush’s Fault?
asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs, and all we got was Obama quackers
The science is settled now, no more debate allowed. lol
I thought it was because they lacked Obamacare and couldn’t get proper medical coverage.
Could very well be...... Good point.
He's the one who diverted the asteroid during early testing for the prototype of the disaster control machine that he would ultimately used to divert Katrina to New Orleans...
We need one one to land on the Dim side of Congress.
LOL
He's the one who diverted the asteroid during early testing for the prototype of the disaster control machine that he would ultimately used to divert Katrina to New Orleans...
It wasn’t global warming or climate changey?
Dinos didn’t exist. Not mentioned in the Bible so there.
/S
I wonder how many of them still believe in man-made global warming?
So Helen Thomas finally broke her silence?
They should have had Dino Preperation-H......
I thought Bush caused all that too....
They found a photo?
Explanation:
Fatal arrogance compounded by ego driver ignorance.
Such is science today.
as in the confidence in Global Warming. Frauds!
Screenshot or it didn’t happen.
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