Dinosaurs died from sudden temperature drop 'not comet strike', scientists claim

Telegraph ^ | Apr 24, 2010 | Andrew Hough

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Dinosaurs were wiped out by sudden drop in temperatures, not by comet striking the planet, scientists claimed.

British researchers claim that a sudden plummeting in the sea temperature of 16F (9C) more than 137 million years ago was the first step towards their eventual road to extinction.

While studying fossils and minerals from the Arctic Svalbard, Norway, they concluded the sudden change in the Atlantic Gulf Stream during the Cretaceous period would almost certainly have wiped out the ''abundance'' of the world's dinosaurs.

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Well....the punch line?

The drop in temperature is thought to have occurred because high levels of CO2 were in the atmosphere which caused global temperatures to rise and polar ice to melt – a phenomenon currently predicted for Earth.

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Global cooling?

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Gregory Price, from Plymouth University, who led the study, said his team's research showed the drop in temperature happened when the Earth was in a ''greenhouse'' climate, which was very similar to now

What did the dinosaurs do to cause the Climate Change?

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The amount of methane out of their bottoms must have been horrific since man did not exist and there were no SUV’s.

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Their breath must have been horrific, too....

Kinda always picture camel breath....YUK

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Andrew Hough is a general news reporter, who covers everything from courts and investigations to ‘quirky’ internet stories. A former executive on the newsdesk, he joined the paper after working at the Old Bailey, the London Evening Standard and Reuters. The Australian formerly worked in Adelaide as an award-winning reporter. Got a news tip? Email: andrew.hough@telegraph.co.uk (all tips are treated in confidence)

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/journalists/andrew-hough/

Australia wishes to apologize for giving birth to this cretin.

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They were drowned in The Flood.

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What...what ...what about the feathers? and another scientist says it was diarrhea and another volcanoes and or swamp gas or cosmic rays or...I dunno...maybe broken hearts.

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He is trying to get part of the action from Al Gore’s reward scheme.

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Meanwhile from Russia:

Russia's top weatherman's .....says winter in Siberia may be COLDEST on record

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The amount of methane out of their bottoms must have been horrific since man did not exist and there were no SUV’s.

I think Dick Cheney went back in time with his Rovian Weather/Time Machine and shot them all so that tens of thousands of years later they would provide the fossil fuels that he and Halliburton and Big Oil needed to become evil and destroy the planet once and for all.

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Why don’t we just ask Helen Thomas what happened, hell she was there

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It is snowing outside and cap the trade is going to take away my wood stove. Make me want to cap someone.

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Pole shift. A cataclysmic inversion of the Earth’s axis of rotation; a sudden slippage of the crust around the molten core.

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Could Cleaner Air Actually Intensify Global Warming?
by NPR Staff

“If we continue to cut back on smoke pouring forth from industrial smokestacks, the increase in global warming could be profound,” Kintisch writes in an opinion piece for the Los Angeles Times.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=126226938

I raise...Your move.

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Didn’t you just have a bunch of snow....somewhere close to Denver.

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Bushes fault!