Posted on 04/26/2009 10:00:37 AM PDT by Mr. Silverback
You know the scenario: 65 million years ago, a big meteor crash sets off volcanoes galore, dust and smoke fill the air, dinosaurs go belly up.
One theory holds that cold, brought on by the Sun's concealment, is what did them in, but a team of paleontologists led by Pascal Godefroit, of the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences in Brussels, argues otherwise. Some dinosaurs (warm-blooded, perhaps) were surprisingly good at withstanding near-freezing temperatures,
(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...
"It's true the Arctic was much warmer back then, but it wasn't any picnic. The size and shape of fossilized leaves found with the bones enabled Godefroit's team to estimate a mean annual temperature of 50 degrees Fahrenheit, with wintertime lows at freezing."
Wait...sites above the Arctic had temps like that? How is that possible when there were no SUVs?
How can this be?? I thought the Earth was only six thousand years old..
I thought Helen Thomas was from Lebanon?
“Dinosaurs Lived in the Arctic”.....We have a lot in DC also. Would term limits have helped the Dinosaurs?
It seems to me...the minute you dig up any dino bones in the Arctic...then this entire “save-the-carbon-save-the-arctic” argument goes down the tubes.
One of the interesting things about human beings...is that we adapted. We moved...we sustained ourselves....we found reasons to change...we migrated...we were willing to be different. As I gaze at environmentalists...I see the least changeable group of humans in existence today.
Dinosaurs were very large animals. Could dinosaur flatulence have been at work here?
Minnesotans For Global Warming http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJUFTm6cJXM&feature=PlayList&p=1B4B1FE9A28F4998&index=0&playnext=1
Must have been all that methane. :-)
Well, okay. 7000.
Even if the Earth does get warmer (which I don't think will happen), what it will mainly mean is that vast stretches of Canada and Siberia now become more habitable.
Your request for a crevo kerfuffle is denied.
Rimshot!
Is that a pastry?
Nicely put.
have they found eeevil SUV fossils? I’m sure that’s what caused it.
Hmmmm...could be. Guess I should rethink my doubts and replace my Ford SportTrac with a PUMA.
Right, the article mentions drift, but the scientists estimate the site was stil wel above the Arctic Circle.
LOL!
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