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  • DINOS DOOMED BY CLIMATE CHANGE: "CURRENT STUDIES OVER-ESTIMATE EFFECT OF K/T ASTEROID IMPACT"

    07/15/2003 9:27:32 PM PDT · by Mike Darancette · 6 replies · 267+ views
    Agence France Press ^ | 14 July 2003 | Sapa-AFP
    Auckland - The dinosaurs were probably heading for extinction even before an asteroid strike wiped them out 65 million years ago, New Zealand scientists said on Monday. Palaeontologist Chris Hollis and a team of scientists from the government-owned Geological and Nuclear Sciences (GNS) have uncovered evidence of significant global climate change even before the meteor strike. "An unknown number of species may have been in sharp decline when the asteroid struck and the impact winter probably finished them off quite quickly," Hollis said in a statement. He added: "There's no scientific agreement on what caused this climatic instability, but it's...
  • HOW IMPACTS CAN TRIGGER VOLCANOS

    02/04/2003 9:54:17 PM PST · by Mike Darancette · 5 replies · 517+ views
    Space.com ^ | 4 February 2003 | Robert Roy Britt
    HOW IMPACTS CAN TRIGGER VOLCANOS Large asteroid impacts have nasty side effects, as any dinosaur could have told you were she not obliterated by one of these calamity combos 65 million years ago. The ground shakes. Fire arcs across the sky and beyond the horizon. Clouds of debris race around the planet and blot the Sun out for months. At least that's what theory tells us. he scenario has never played out in modern times, scientists don't really know exactly what will happen when the next space rock slams into Earth. One long-supposed incendiary side-effect is enhanced volcanic activity, which...