[antiunion person]

I know what caused the death of the dinosaurs, global warming. Al Gore blames everything on that, so it must be the cause. I bet one cave man was there, started a fire to keep warm and global warming began.

[PeteB570]

“I know what caused the death of the dinosaurs, global warming.”

And those Dinosaurs drove humongus SUVs.

[PetroniusMaximus]

Global flood.

[RegulatorCountry]

No, ancient global warming was due to all those gigantic dinousaurs, which were largely herbivores, emitting earth-shattering farts. The warming was OK by them, since they were coldblooded, but it ultimately proved to be their undoing. The asteroid set off the gas. KABOOM! That’s where precious gems come from; when the force of the exploding, methane-drenched atmosphere forced dead dinosaur carcasses deep underground, under tremendous pressure. Natural gas was trapped in those carcasses, too, which is why it stinks.

(Do I really need a < /sarc> tag, lol?)

[hosepipe]

What snuffed the dinos?...

answer: second hand smoke..

[ETL]

This is not exactly a new story. The scientist gave a lecture on her theory at the American Museum of Natural History in New York more than 4 years ago. Following the talk, I asked her about the massive volcanoes that were going off in India about the same time of the dinosaur extinction (the Deccan Traps), and whether or not they could have played a role in the dinosaurs' demise. She said she didn't think so. However, according to the article linked to in this thread, she apparently has changed her mind on this. Interesting.

From the article...

"So if the Chicxulub asteroid didn't kill the dinosaurs, what did? Paleontologists have advanced all manner of other theories over the years, including the appearance of land bridges that allowed different species to migrate to different continents, bringing with them diseases to which native species hadn't developed immunity. Keller and Addate do not see any reason to stray so far from the prevailing model. Some kind of atmospheric haze might indeed have blocked the sun, making the planet too cold for the dinosaurs — it just didn't have to have come from an asteroid. Rather, they say, the source might have been massive volcanoes, like the ones that blew in the Deccan Traps in what is now India at just the right point in history."

http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1894225,00.html?xid=rss-healthsci-yahoo

[umgud]

ping

[org.whodat]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfFPfkLVW3Q

[looois]

This is all wrong. What killed off the dinosaurs is the last generation of dinosaur babies all turned out to be gay.

[Reaganwuzthebest]

The best theory I’ve heard so far was that the earth’s gravity was less then and as it increased the dinosaurs could no longer handle it. As wacky as that sounds it’s far less so than this one or latest theory that claims it was volcanoes that did them in.

[SERKIT]

They were taxed into extinction by the obamaraptor, the reidosaur, and the flying pelosidactyl.

[WorkingClassFilth]

Uh, beg to differ, but catastrophism used to be the province of kooks and the insane as far as ‘science’ was concerned. In those days, uniformitarianism ruled and the dinosaurs all died out because of slow changes in the environment. That wasn’t too long ago. Velikovsky would be honored by the reactionary resistance to his long ago tendered theory.

[SuperLuminal]

I was born 5 years after the asteroid impact and can testify to the accelerated emigration of illegal dinos into the northern part of the continent all trying to get away from the impact effects in what is now Mexico.

Fortunately the cold climates and semiautomatic spears took care of the millions of illegals....however, to this day I cannot eat another dinoburger.

[Mustachistan]

Bush lied, dinosaurs died!

[SunkenCiv]

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• Dinosaurs' Rise Was Slow, Not "Lucky Break," New Fossils Suggest
• Fossil finds shake up dinosaur theories
• Asteroid Breakup May Have Doomed Dinosaurs
• Some Dinos May've Survived the Cataclysm
• Funny-Looking Dinosaur Found in China
• Duck-billed dinosaur amazes scientists
• Emory paleontologist reports discovery of carnivorous dinosaur tracks in Australia
• Huge Dinosaur Skeleton Unearthed
• Dinosaur Deaths Outsourced to India?
• Volcanic Eruptions, Not Meteor, May Have Killed The Dinosaurs
• Volcano Theory of Dino Die-Off Gets New Support
• Dinosaurs breathed like penguins
• Dinosaur found with vacuum-cleaner mouth
• Dinosaur Graveyard May Unearth New Reasons For Their Extinction
• Mummified dinosaur may have outrun T. Rex (Dakota the DinoMummy, a duckbilled Hadrosaur)
• Jamie's dig unearths a monster
• Amazing find of dinosaur 'mummy'
• Insect Attack May Have Finished Off Dinosaurs
• Bald truth about dinosaur feathers
• Titan Has More Oil Than Earth
• Ancient Flying Reptiles Likely Had Sex As Youths
• Workers Uncovering Mummified Dinosaur
• Gas-belching volcanoes may have killed dinosaurs
• Dinosaur Fossil Found on Bus in Peru
• "Dino Killer" Asteroid Was Half the Size Predicted?
• T. Rex Confirmed As Great Grandaddy Of All Birds
• Tests Confirm T. Rex Kinship With Birds
• Where Do the Dinosaurs Fit? [Open]
• Oz dino bone defies drift theory
• Aussie dinosaur bone takes bite out of theory of continental drift
• Jurassic Park comes true:
  How scientists are bringing dinosaurs back to life
• BLM announces 'major' dinosaur find in Utah
• Myth of Dwarf Dinos in Dracula Country Confirmed
• Major Jurassic Dinosaur Find Announced
• Real Dinosaur on the Loose in a Museum Makes Learning Fun, Extremely Dangerous (Video)
• Dinosaurs ran out of stamina in the evolutionary race
• Soft tissue in fossils still mysterious:
  Purported dinosaur soft tissue may be modern biofilms
• Surprise: The Bible is scientifically ahead of secular scientists!
• Dinosaurs Diversified Over Time, Not Suddenly (Wouldn't ALL fossil fuel contain DNA?)
• Daily Spanish-language newspaper El Nuevo Dia Orlando is closing
• Dinosaurs helped build the pyramids, school director says
• Smallest Dinosaur in North America Discovered
• Cretaceous Chicken:
  Bus-Sized Dinosaur Breathed Like Birds Do
• 'A dinosaur dance floor;'Numerous tracks at Jurassic oasis on Arizona-Utah border
• Dinosaur Dance Floor:
  Numerous Tracks at Jurassic Oasis on Arizona-Utah Border
• Dinosaur inspires flying robot
• Tribune Files for Bankruptcy Protection
• Huge dinosaur discovery in China: state media
  (including the remains of an enormous "platypus")
• Experts: Shandong dinosaur fossil field "world's largest"
• Scientists say comet killed off mammoths, saber-toothed tigers
• Texas Legislature may name new species the official state dinosaur
• Dinosaur fossils suggest speedy extinction
  - Arctic find challenges the idea that the massive...
• 111-year-old reptile becomes a dad
• Did Dinosaurs Turn Into Birds?
• Missing dinosaur link found in Argentina
  (omnivore, it ate everything inc. plants and meat)
• Newspapers' Woes Worsening
• "Predator X" Arctic sea monster's giant bite
• Miniature carnivore dinosaurs roamed North America
  (the size of a small chicken)
• Fossil hints at fuzzy dinosaurs
• Gang of Juvenile Dinosaurs Discovered
• Strange Discovery on Table Mountain
• Dinosaur herd buried in Noah's Flood in Inner Mongolia, China
• Tyrannosaur 'Missing Link' Among New Dinosaurs From China
• Bang goes that theory: Dinosaur extinction
  'occurred 300,000 years AFTER asteroid impact'
• Oldest Dinosaur Protein Found -- Blood Vessels, More
• Fossil Backs Theory Linking Dinosaurs To Birds
• Expert: Volcanoes in Today's India Wiped Out Dinos
• Maybe an Asteroid Didn't Kill the Dinosaurs
• New dinosaur species possible in Northwestern Alberta (Better avoid Alberta)

[SunkenCiv]

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[SunkenCiv]

Even in all caps, these claims were outmoded:

NEW EVIDENCE THAT VOLCANOS KILLED THE DINOSAURS
Red Nova | September 15, 2003
Posted on 09/15/2003 8:48:14 PM PDT by UnklGene
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/983238/posts

Insect Attack May Have Finished Off Dinosaurs
Science Daily | 1-3-2008 | Oregon State University
Posted on 01/03/2008 5:16:53 PM PST by blam
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1947997/posts

Evidence of the ‘Lost World’ — did dinosaurs survive the end Cretaceous extinctions?
The Palaeontological Association | Apr. 28, 2009 | Unknown
Posted on 04/28/2009 12:02:46 PM PDT by decimon
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2239747/posts