My 16 year old granddaughter and I were talking about dinosaurs and I mentioned the asteroid that killed them all. She said her teacher said that theory is wrong. She said global warming killed them. I asked how, and she said they dies from methane gas released from the ice. I told her that seems very unlikely and that the asteroid theory holds more water. She said “No. My professor said global warming kill them!” I asked her to then explain how there’s a thin layer of Iridium coating the earth about 67 million years ago; a material that is very rare to the earth, except where asteroids have hit the earth. I also pointed out that no dinosaur fossils are found above that layer. She just shrugged and said “No. It was global warming, just like we see today.” Sadly, she’s a straight A student with a stupid teach who teaching an agenda.
Find out what your kids are being taught.
The methane form the Ice is stupid but Climate Change from the Deccan traps going on at the time no doubt lead to the Dinos extinction.
That thin layer of Iridium represents 10,000 to 100,000 years of deposit, please explain how Iridium which is the 2nd most densest element (2x denser than lead) can stay up in the atmosphere that long? I would also point out no dinosaur fossils are found IN that layer, where as if a asteroid wiped them out the Iridium layer would be full of fossils.