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2006-09-08 -Short Attention Span Theater-
Global warming taking earth back to dinosaur era
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Posted by Fred 2006-09-08 00:00|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [11127 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 moving is a good time to clean house!
Posted by 3dc 2006-09-08 00:37||   2006-09-08 00:37|| Front Page Top

#2 So that's what's taking us back 65 million years.
I thought it was the Islamofascists.
Posted by GK 2006-09-08 00:48||   2006-09-08 00:48|| Front Page Top

#3 Amazing that the fossil fuels are found 5 miles down in the Gulf Of Mexico...must have been a desert way back when...or was that the oily dino the swimmer era?
Posted by Phineter Thraviger1073 2006-09-08 01:06||   2006-09-08 01:06|| Front Page Top

#4 Between 10 and 99 percent of species...

That's a rather wide range.
Posted by E. Fudd">E. Fudd  2006-09-08 01:14|| http://five24.net]">[http://five24.net]  2006-09-08 01:14|| Front Page Top

#5 So they can predict climate conditions a hundred years from now, but they can't be sure if it's going to rain next Tuesday?
Posted by Scott R">Scott R  2006-09-08 01:19|| http://five24.net]">[http://five24.net]  2006-09-08 01:19|| Front Page Top

#6 "Up from the depths, 30 stories high, breathing fire, his head in the sky - Godzilla, Godzilla."
Some Galactic Velociraptors = the Devil = Nostradamus' "hideous beast" are just so silly.
Posted by JosephMendiola 2006-09-08 01:29||   2006-09-08 01:29|| Front Page Top

#7 I for one welcome our new reptile overlords!
Posted by PBMcL 2006-09-08 01:49||   2006-09-08 01:49|| Front Page Top

#8 scratching and eating bananas and copulating in the warm winter sun.

Works for me!
Posted by anonymous5089 2006-09-08 01:56||   2006-09-08 01:56|| Front Page Top

#9 Well, hells bells, sounds good to me. I never want to go back to those good olde winters in Interior Alaska, where we had low temps of -65 to -70F. Where the ice fog got so thick that we cut it with crosscut log saws and stacked it out of the way so we could see. When you had to steam trace the steam lines. Where a mastedon has not walked by in 10,000 years. Yep, Ima ready for tropical fish swimming the Yukon River. Bring it on. BTW, great graphic! LOL!
Posted by Alaska Paul at Homer, Alaska">Alaska Paul at Homer, Alaska  2006-09-08 02:45||   2006-09-08 02:45|| Front Page Top

#10 Yeppo, AP. The Cremation of Sam McGee could have been avoided if only they had waited a few years.
Posted by Phineter Thraviger1073 2006-09-08 03:06||   2006-09-08 03:06|| Front Page Top

#11 LOL. Wahtever will happen to our digital watches and the litttle bits of green paper, I wonder...

I have a theory that the smokers will survive - while the "healthy" little pricks who wag their fingers die off - cuz they're accustomed to higher CO and CO2 levels...
Posted by flyover 2006-09-08 05:05||   2006-09-08 05:05|| Front Page Top

#12 Last summer my six year old daughter told me that she had a photo of a dinosaur on her sleeping bag. Global warming.
Posted by JFM">JFM  2006-09-08 06:25||   2006-09-08 06:25|| Front Page Top

#13 Dinosaurs, eh? Kewel!
Posted by Mike 2006-09-08 08:57||   2006-09-08 08:57|| Front Page Top

#14 I agree with Mike. Having dinosaurs back would kick ass.

Global Warning: Putting the mental in environMENTALism since 1990.
Posted by badanov 2006-09-08 09:28|| http://www.freefirezone.org]">[http://www.freefirezone.org]  2006-09-08 09:28|| Front Page Top

#15 Amazing that the fossil fuels are found 5 miles down in the Gulf Of Mexico...must have been a desert way back when...or was that the oily dino the swimmer era?

The problem is that the whole concept of the source of oil is based upon theory. Someone came up with the idea and now everyone a) just repeats it or does some reverse explanation were as the end result concept is justified by selected data. Just think that the theory of the earth as the center of the universe worked well for so long, that even centuries after Copernicus and Galileo, we still use the terms ’sunrise’ and ’sunset’ even though we understand it is us who are moving relative to the sun. And really, did the peasants have a need for the ‘facts’ when their betters were running everything. Why mess it up with details.
Posted by Sleresh Jeck3466 2006-09-08 09:44||   2006-09-08 09:44|| Front Page Top

#16 Well, this is good news now that Florida is full. I guess we'll soon be talking about "Sunbirds" who summer in Nova Scotia, instead of "Snowbirds" who winter in Florida.

And, E. Fudd hits that nail on the head...that's an AWFULLY big range even for gaia-worshipping "scientists." Scott R's comment is also spot-on....they can't predict the temp/rain events for 2 days from now...how do they expect us to believe them prediciting something unpredictable in 100 years?
Posted by BA 2006-09-08 09:59||   2006-09-08 09:59|| Front Page Top

#17 Gee, will the dinosaurs be coming back too?
Posted by mojo">mojo  2006-09-08 10:10||   2006-09-08 10:10|| Front Page Top

#18 "Scientists predict average global temperatures will rise by between two and six degrees centigrade by 2100"
Actually, it's Celsius not centigrade, and they downgraded from three degrees to two degrees a couple of days ago. And it's still bullcrap -- they can't reliably tell us the weather three days from now.
Posted by Darrell 2006-09-08 10:19||   2006-09-08 10:19|| Front Page Top

#19 ---- 80 percent of species had already begun moving their traditional territorial ranges in response to the changing climatic conditions. --

Like humans did during the Depression? They responded to changing climatic conditions by moving out of said drought area?

UUUUHHHHH - didn't the Indians and most who came before us did?

That is 1 of the most stupidest statements I have ever read.
Posted by anonymous2u 2006-09-08 10:31||   2006-09-08 10:31|| Front Page Top

#20 Then you haven't been reading much Reuters lately.
Posted by Darrell 2006-09-08 10:32||   2006-09-08 10:32|| Front Page Top

#21 How in the hell does he think the Indians got to America?

Spring from Zeus' head like Athena? (It was Athena/Diana, wasn't it?)
Posted by anonymous2u 2006-09-08 10:32||   2006-09-08 10:32|| Front Page Top

#22 Some wise soul needs to compile all the BS that's beeen spewed about 'global warming' into one single reference, and store it in a safe place. Then when none of it has happened, in 100 years or so, their successors can retrieve it and rub it in the experts faces. Oh, wait....the 'experts' won't be around to humiliate......nevermind.
Posted by mcsegeek1 2006-09-08 11:42||   2006-09-08 11:42|| Front Page Top

#23 Of course they won't be around. They'll have long since burnt up. Or been stomped by brontosaurs.
Posted by Fred 2006-09-08 12:06||   2006-09-08 12:06|| Front Page Top

#24 Actually, they'll have been eaten by the brontosaurii instead.
Posted by Abdominal Snowman 2006-09-08 12:18||   2006-09-08 12:18|| Front Page Top

#25 Dibs on the T-Rex!
Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader  2006-09-08 12:24||   2006-09-08 12:24|| Front Page Top

#26 You can have it. They're stringy and the meat is gamy.

The Brontos, otoh, are nice and moist.
Posted by lotp 2006-09-08 12:27||   2006-09-08 12:27|| Front Page Top

#27 It ain't the heat, it's the humidity...
Posted by tu3031 2006-09-08 12:37||   2006-09-08 12:37|| Front Page Top

#28 Brontosaurus: the other white meat
Posted by Fred 2006-09-08 14:12||   2006-09-08 14:12|| Front Page Top

#29 AP, Where a mastedon has not walked by in 10,000 years.

Not that far back, ~3,500 years ago. There has been a dig in Yukon a few years back, and there was a mastodon bone with cutmarks that had to be done into a fresh bone--it is a quite distinct way the bone is striated. The stratification has been the same as the settlement and based on organic material left there, the settlement has been dated to ~1,600 BCE. I've got the info from someone who worked there. Sorry, sworn to not reveal any names.

The scientists were puzzled. The matter was resolved but introducing and introduction from an earlier strata. The bone, looking quite fresh and without any apparent mineralization, has not been carbon dated, based on theoretical considerations--it would mean too many books to rewrite.
Posted by twobyfour 2006-09-08 16:07||   2006-09-08 16:07|| Front Page Top

#30 No worries folks. The nuclear winter we are going to have after bombing the f*ck out of Iran in the next couple years should off set it.
Posted by Broadhead6 2006-09-08 16:16||   2006-09-08 16:16|| Front Page Top

#31 I think that no nukes would be used for surface targets, only for deep installations, so not much dust thrown into air.

Thus, no nukular winter and I for one welcome our new reptile overlords!
Posted by twobyfour 2006-09-08 16:43||   2006-09-08 16:43|| Front Page Top

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