[decimon]

Last gasp ping.

[The_Victor]

Science with an agenda isn't science.

[MrEdd]

You see there was this ancient dynasty of cave men (we are going to call them the Bushes)... and they wanted to destroy all the good animals...

[Paladin2]

"...sulphur dioxide (SO2), two highly toxic pollutants common in fossil fuels..."

I don't think SO₂ is present in fossil fuels. S maybe.

[Moonman62]

Scientists have known for decades of a massive dying between the Triassic and Jurassic eras. Life around the world was pummeled by runaway global warming, and scientists speculate that huge volcanic eruptions are responsible,

What a load. Volcanic eruptions are associated with cooling events. And before the global warming hysteria, geologists always considered the warming periods as ideal and optimum.

[rarestia]

...or maybe (JUST MAYBE) these are naturally-occurring gases due to volcanism and dinosaur flatus.

[JoeProBono]

COUGH!

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks decimon.

Scientists Find Signs of Meteor Crash That Led to Extinctions in Era Before Dinosaurs
by Kenneth Chang
February 23, 2001

Dr. Becker, Dr. Poreda and their colleagues had previously found buckyballs at an impact crater in Sudbury, Canada, and in two meteorites. They have also found buckyballs containing similar types of gases in sediments dating from the dinosaur extinctions.

In the experiments, the scientists extracted buckyballs -- not just the typical sphere consisting of 60 carbon atoms, but also larger versions with up to 160 atoms -- from the sediments with organic solvents.

They then opened the buckyballs to release the helium and argon inside them. The nuclei of most helium atoms consist of two protons and two neutrons. A few -- one out of 700,000 helium atoms in the atmosphere -- are a lighter version, with only one neutron. For the helium in the buckyballs, a much larger fraction -- one out of 5,000 -- was the lighter version, similar to the ratio produced by fusion in stars.

The argon indicated a similar story, with low concentrations of a version that is commonly produced on Earth from the radioactive decay of potassium.

"I think the argon isotope ratio measurement is very convincing," said Dr. Kenneth A. Farley, a professor of geochemistry at the California Institute of Technology. "That's very hard to understand if it's not extraterrestrial."

Global warming my a-.

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[Gaffer]

It was all them ‘effin’ caveman SUV’s

[US Navy Vet]

Yeah, like a world-wide FLODD. Water in MASS is kinda toxic.

[JasonC]

Ancient forests did fine. Proof - modern forests.

Just hopeless...

[GraceG]

SO2 and PAH’s are being produced is MASS quantities by China while we have regulated and pretty much solved the Acid rain problem in our country of the last 30 years.

But they still bitch and complain about the US when China is literally poisoning their own people.