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Dinosaurs died from sudden temperature drop 'not comet strike', scientists claim
Telegraph ^
| Apr 24, 2010
| Andrew Hough
Posted on 04/25/2010 6:50:12 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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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TOPICS: History; Science; Weather
KEYWORDS: catastrophism; climatechange; dinosaurs; godsgravesglyphs; ntsa
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Rubbing my hands together, “It’s all working out according to plan, wha..ha..ha.hah..hhaaa!!!!”.
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posted on
04/25/2010 7:39:33 PM PDT
by
count-your-change
(You don't have be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Now will we stop driving our SUV’s?
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posted on
04/25/2010 7:58:20 PM PDT
by
eclecticEel
(Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness: 7/4/1776 - 3/21/1980)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
This is Politically Incorrect. Nothing here. Let us move on to more important issues like the need to tax the living *hit out of every working individual in every Capitalist oriented country along with most of their energy producing industries that may somehow dribble out a bit of CO2 into the atmosphere the most certainly will cause literally catastrophic global warming to take place soon.
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posted on
04/25/2010 8:12:58 PM PDT
by
Marine_Uncle
(Honor must be earned....)
To: eclecticEel
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Waiting patiently for the Kingdom of Genius to make up its mind.
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posted on
04/25/2010 8:17:12 PM PDT
by
YHAOS
(you betcha!)
To: dfwgator; Ernest_at_the_Beach
In retrospect, perhaps that is the real reason the dino’s dropped out of the pic... caught caught....I’m taking a deep drag of my USA Light Menthol Light ... heheh. I like the dino on the right side of pic.
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posted on
04/25/2010 8:22:29 PM PDT
by
Marine_Uncle
(Honor must be earned....)
To: digger48
I thought dino died from smoking.
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posted on
04/25/2010 9:04:54 PM PDT
by
Pit1
To: digger48
What did the dinosaurs do to cause the Climate Change?
SUV’s.
Chlorofluorocarbon in refrigerators and hairspray.
Not buying enough carbon credits from Algore.
They deserved to die, man. They had it coming.
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posted on
04/26/2010 12:50:53 AM PDT
by
Cheburashka
(Stephen Decatur: you want barrels of gunpowder as tribute, you must expect cannonballs with it.)
To: YHAOS
Waiting patiently for the Kingdom of Genius to make up its mind.
You'll be waiting a long time. The object of the con is to separate the marks from their money, not to construct any logical theories.
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posted on
04/26/2010 12:55:27 AM PDT
by
Cheburashka
(Stephen Decatur: you want barrels of gunpowder as tribute, you must expect cannonballs with it.)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach; Amagi; rdl6989; Tunehead54; Clive; Little Bill; tubebender; marvlus; ...
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posted on
04/26/2010 2:26:11 AM PDT
by
steelyourfaith
(Warmists as "traffic light" apocalyptics: "Greens too yellow to admit they're really Reds."-Monckton)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
I thought a panel of “smart people” recently proclaimed that it is unanimous among global scientists: a comet wiped out the dinos.
Now we have deniers?????? Blaming cold weather?????? They are going to confuse the stupid people! Global warming kills not global cooling!!!! Knuckle draggers!
To: Cheburashka
"
You'll be waiting a long time. "
Ya think? ( ^: }
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posted on
04/26/2010 10:50:03 AM PDT
by
YHAOS
(you betcha!)
To: GSP.FAN
How To Survive The Coming Ice Age
51 Things You Can Do to Make a Difference
I guess those 51 Things really DID make a difference - what with the threat of global warming and all!
To: my_pointy_head_is_sharp
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posted on
04/26/2010 11:15:30 AM PDT
by
GSP.FAN
(Is Eaker going swishy?)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach; StayAt HomeMother; 1ofmanyfree; 21twelve; 240B; 24Karet; 2ndDivisionVet; ...
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posted on
04/28/2010 5:36:37 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
("Fools learn from experience. I prefer to learn from the experience of others." -- Otto von Bismarck)
To: 75thOVI; aimhigh; Alice in Wonderland; AndrewC; aragorn; aristotleman; Avoiding_Sulla; BBell; ...
Thanks Ernest_at_the_Beach, a two-list ping.
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posted on
04/28/2010 5:37:04 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
("Fools learn from experience. I prefer to learn from the experience of others." -- Otto von Bismarck)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Last Friday we had a bizarre day. It was a hard rain in the city, but very odd. It was heavy with texture like it was trying to become snow. It was snow in the higher suburbs and foothills. Had our stuff fallen as snow and had the temps been just a few degrees cooler we probably would have gotten a foot.
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach; SunkenCiv
Did it never occur to these people that a strike would have had effects on the climate???
These people are obsessed with CO2, like Captain Ahab with Moby Dick.
To: SunkenCiv
Almost as if the cloud cover suddenly increased and lasted for months. If only the impact model included that possibility. A) Meteor strike
B) Massive volcanic explosion(s)
C) An increase in cosmic rays for whatever reason
D) The sun hiccuped, causing a temporary flame-our
E) The aliens did it
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posted on
04/28/2010 7:02:17 PM PDT
by
ApplegateRanch
(Made in America, by proud American citizens, in 1946.)
To: Sacajaweau
“Their breath must have been horrific, too....
Kinda always picture camel breath....YUK”
If you’re close enough to smell a dinosaur’s breath then global warming and sea temperatures and all, well, it just sorta doesn’t matter anymore.
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posted on
04/29/2010 8:13:38 AM PDT
by
Beowulf9
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