Due to a massive meteor. But I am sure you will find a reason that global warming also produces meteor crashes. |
I’m beginning to think that climate change deniers boast refrigerator temp IQs. Yes, the dinosaurs went extinct because of a massive meteor crash that caused tidal waves so high they reached hundreds of miles inland and set the atmosphere on fire for years. But the world in which the dinosaurs lived wasn’t exactly hospitable to us living. “The Cretaceous period is an archetypal example of a greenhouse climate. Atmospheric pCO2 levels reached as high as about 2,000 ppmv, average temperatures were roughly 5°C–10°C higher than today, and sea levels were 50–100 meters higher [O’Brien et al., 2017; Tierney et al., 2020]. These conditions resemble the most extreme scenario that the IPCC has predicted could occur by the end of this century, with pCO2 levels greater than 1,200 ppmv and global temperatures roughly 4°C higher [IPCC, 2018].” https://eos.org/science-updates/an-unbroken-record-of-climate-during-the-age-of-dinosaurs Sounds totes livable, right? Nobody lives within that level of sea rise* and we can grow food if it’s that warm because all our crops will for sure be adapted to those temperatures and weather patterns and no new plant viruses would exist. *
https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/kf1w98/this_is_a_map_of_the_world_if_sea_level_rises_100/ from floodmap.net |
Yes. It was inhabitable. Inhabitable is good.
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Ummm..that changed the climate so they could no longer survive and thrive. Call me crazy but I have in mind leaving a habitable planter for the future human generations. |
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Yeah, that “it was inhabitable” was sarcasm. Here’s the tag you needed: /s |
The insurance industry is already pulling out of Florida. |
Useful idiots for the fossil fuel industry will continue to natter on how it's all a big fake hoax and a commie liberal conspiracy even as other industries that are entirely based on data and assessing risk know full well that it's very much real and a huge problem. This isn't about liberals versus conservatives. It's about the long term propaganda and brainwashing the fossil fuel industry has done to deny the risks. Same thing was done with tobacco and leaded gas for decades. And in fact, in the 1990s and earlier, the fossil fuel industry hired the same propagandists and continues to use the exact same playbook. https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/13/business/exxon-climate-change-harvard/index.html |
Cute. You do know what a hypothesis is? Scratch that. You clearly don't. |
The PP was responding to me. I'm the +1. And you are looking more stupid with every single post. Glad to see you recognize yourself as the clown you are. |
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Hey Warmers… how big were the glaciers 65 million years ago? What was the DC December temp in 960 AD? I need data. |
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Why do freezing deaths of humans outnumber warm deaths 9-1?
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Because freezing makes you like 9x as dead… Heat is probably racist AND misogynistic, too. |
Which will last about as long as it takes the Florida legislature to pass a law that says insurance companies who refuse to sell property insurance in FL also won’t be allowed to sell auto or life insurance, either. |
Before warming .. freezing deaths were 10-1. We need to get the freezing deaths back up. |