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From: Kermit <unrestrained_h...@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Global warming - NOT OT
Date: Tue, 8 May 2012 10:24:38 -0700 (PDT)
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On May 7, 6:00 pm, *Hemidactylus* <ecpho...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> On 05/07/2012 07:29 PM, Burkhard wrote:
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> > On May 7, 11:59 pm, *Hemidactylus*<ecpho...@hotmail.com>  wrote:
> >> On 05/07/2012 02:34 PM, Burkhard wrote:>  A rare chance to post on global warming without being off topic:
> >>>http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/17953792
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> >>> So _that's_ what killed them :o)
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> >> PZ Myers took some of the ummm...wind out of the sails of that line of
> >> reasoning;
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> >>http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2012/05/07/the-reports-of-dino...
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> > Dunno. I grew up in a part of the world where in early autumn, after
> > the wine harvest, people would gorge on "Federweisser" (fermenting
> > must) and onion bake. The story sounds entirely plausible to me.
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> But did dinosaurs have the "intelligence" to invent ways of inebriating
> themselves? And the flatulence of dinosaurs may have contributed to
> global warming, but did it kill them off versus an asteroid that led to
> global cooling (not warming)?

To be fair, if I understand it right, the asteroid led to a shock
wave, an immediate tsunami which swept over most of North America, and
a global firestorm on the first day. Followed by acid rain, ocean
acidification, and global cooling with serious darkness (from the
particulates) over the next few years. Followed by serious global
warming (from all the CO2) over the next few decades, followed by
normal climate more or less after a few centuries.

I suppose flatulance could have contributed...

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> And how much did dino farts warm the climate versus human sources like
> cars and other sources of C02? Global warming (prawnster's "bad
> weather") stands less a chance of extincting humans than an asteroid impact.
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> In the end cockroaches win. How long after our extinction before they
> become sentient and start reading our books instead of defecating in
> them and learn to emulate us? How long before they discover religion?
> They too are doomed...
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> It has already been proven that religion is an effective means of pest
> control:
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> http://www.comedycentral.com/video-clips/1qjbg7/important-things-with...
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> *Hemidactylus*

Kermit