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Ocean hot in days of dinosaurs, study finds
http://www.knoxstudio.com/shns/story.cfm?pk=HOTWATER-02-17-06&cat=AN ^
| 2/17/2006
| LEE BOWMAN
Posted on 02/18/2006 7:38:53 AM PST by worldclass
Sometimes we make that first dash into the ocean on summer vacation and happily announce, "It's warm as bathwater."
But a new study based on ancient sediments collected off South America indicates that the tropical Atlantic Ocean really did hit temperatures as high as 107 degrees Fahrenheit back when dinosaurs ruled.
The finding, reported Friday by researchers from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution during the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, also estimates that carbon dioxide made up as much as six times more of the atmosphere at that time than it does today.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: carbondioxide; catastrophism; cretaceous; dinosaur; dinosaurs; fraud; globalwarming; globalwarminghoax; godsgravesglyphs; ktboundary; paleontology; triassic
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To: Mike Darancette
One other question comes to mind; what happened to all that extra atmospheric Carbon? Got taken out of the air by plant life, and ultimately turned into coal deposits?
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To: DaveLoneRanger
Not quite global warming ping but interesting.
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