Were dinosaurs crying global cooling when they start to die out due to coming ice age?

Question

Or Mommaths crying about global warming when ice started melting coming out of the ice age?

Answer 1

Well I don't know if dinosaurs had tear ducts, and I don't know what a "Mommath" is, but I'm guessing they weren't happy about dying.

Since you put this question in the global warming section, did you want to ask something relevant to global warming?

Answer 2

Like most of the people that have answered your question I do not really understand it. I presume you are trying to suggest that global warming is natural? And that it has happened before? Though I was under the impression that many scientists think that the dinosaurs were wiped out due to a meteor that caused an ice age? A very similar situation that we find ourselves in now, a major change in the atmoshere in a brief period....

Answer 3

Nope.

Ice ages started and ended because of changes in solar radiation.  

How do we know that's not happening now?

Simple, a lot of people have been measuring solar radiation for many years.  It's been going DOWN while temperatures have been going UP.

"Recent oppositely directed trends in solar

climate forcings and the global mean surface

air temperature", Lockwood and Frolich (2007), Proc. R. Soc. A

doi:10.1098/rspa.2007.1880

http://www.pubs.royalsoc.ac.uk/media/pro...

News article at:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6290228.st...

Answer 4

Here is my theory. They didn't care, because they didn't have the mental capacity to understand it.

Answer 5

Excellent question!

Answer 6

NEWSFLASH: Dinosaurs lacked the intellectual ability to measure climatological changes and anticipate their future demise.

Answer 7

What's a Mommath ? o.O And I don't think dinosaurs had the capability to analyze the environment, think about it, and get emotional as well. But I see the sarcasm in your post.

Answer 8

Im sure hes meaning Mammoth that big wolly creature similiar to a elephant which died out during the last ice age for reasons uncertain maybe just lack of food, climate change we should be really calling the heating and cooling of the changing conditions as winters in some parts are getting colder and summers in parts are getting hotter and vice versa in other regions. Canada is looking to break all time records for snow fall this winter, Queensland Australia has experienced record rain levels for certain parts and record highs also for certain parts this year, New Zealand has recorded record highs in temperature and rainfall also for certain regions so it is happening on a global scale whether you want to believe or not, but both scenarios of cooling and heating are definately identifiable throughout the world as was expected, because you cannot have one with out the other.

Answer 9

Mammoths aren't dinosaurs.  Nobody knows why they died off, but it probably wasn't due to melting ice.  Human hunting is the only really likely possibility, and has been for a long, long, time.

However, I am crying right now for the collapse of the educational system.  Did you know that during the 1960's they were worried the USA was only 5th among developed nations in education.  That has turned out to be our high point.  Right now we're 26th out of 29.

Dinosaur Mammoths being killed off by melting ice, indeed!  Dying from laughter possibly, but not melting ice.

As to this piece of disinformation

   "in the 70s the same "wackos" that are crying global warming now, were crying global cooling which has been proven wrong which will happen to global warming but no one is ever held accountable"

1)  Lowell Ponte wrote a book in 1976 suggesting we were entering another ice age.  The book was called "the cooling".  I read it, and also saw Ponte on the Tonight Show.  The book basically challenged Global Warming Theory which was the conventional wisdom of the day.  Ponte was not a climatologist, unemployed, recently off the payroll of the CIA from his job supervising cloud seeding over the Ho Chi Minh Trail and looking to make a little cash.

2)  The book made the Times Best Seller List, and Newsweek reviewed it and wrote one of their usual sensationalist articles, as if Moses had just brought it down from the Mountain.

3)  Sometime later that decade the Government released the one and only government report for that entire decade that discussed Climate.  The National Research Council issued the report at the request of Congress and the President, probably due to the controversy Ponte had stirred up.  

4)  The report said there was not enough data known to predict or discredit either theory.  They itemized what would be needed to be able to do that, mainly a global network of satellites and better computers.  I quote from the report

“Our knowledge of the mechanisms of climatic change is at least as fragmentary as our data not only are the basic scientific questions largely unanswered, but in many cases we do not yet know enough to pose the key questions.”

5)  Following that report, the National Geographic Magazine had an article about the NRC report, summarizing both theories and stating the NRC's conclusion that both were unprovable at the time.

6)  The book itself was pop science, published in the popular press, not any scientific journal, and written by an uncredentialed author.

That "WHACKO" remains the premier DENIER/skeptic in this fair land!  His is not and never has been a promoter of Global Warming Theory.

http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Rea...

Answer 10

Shhhhhh... the global warming sheep don't like to hear about climate change in the past.

Answer 11

There have been many climate changes in the past, and multiple agents of natural climate change, one of them being rising greenhouse gas levels such as CO2 and methane.  That doesn't mean that warmings were always triggered by greenhouse gasses or that they were responsible for all of the warming, but the evidence does indicate that increasing greenhouse gasses will cause climate change.

Climates of the Past

http://www.ncar.ucar.edu/research/climat...

"... the orbits of the Sun and Earth undergo a variety of cyclic shifts over thousands and millions of years. Tiny changes in the tilt of Earth and the asymmetry of its path around the Sun can make a big difference to regional climate—sometimes enough to trigger an ice age."

"Paleoclimate models can look even further back, reproducing slices of atmospheric time from millions of years ago. One NCAR study of the climate 251 million years ago lends support to the notion that a sudden increase in carbon dioxide helped trigger the greatest mass extinction in Earth’s history."

Tipping points in the Earth system

http://researchpages.net/ESMG/people/tim...

"Fifty-five million years ago, there is a striking warm spike in the global temperature record at what is now called the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM). This provides probably the closest available analogue to human impact on the climate system. Around 1500–4500 PgC of ‘fossil’ carbon was released – a similar amount to known fossil fuel reserves today. This carbon may have come from frozen methane hydrates under the ocean sediments or from a volcanic intrusion into a huge fossil fuel reservoir where the North Atlantic was opening up – we don’t know for sure. We do know that within the resolution of the rock record (thousands of years), temperature at the equator rose 4–5 °C and at the poles 8–10 °C. The ocean acidified dissolving carbonate sediments and the system took the order of a hundred thousand years to recover. If, as many think, much of the carbon released came from frozen methane hydrates after they received a small initial perturbation, then they were a tipping element at the time."

Answer 12

Algoreasaurs was showing cave drawings of drowning saber tooth tigers.

Answer 13

I am not sure, but in the 70s the same "wackos" that are crying global warming now, were crying global cooling which has been proven wrong which will happen to global warming but no one is ever held accountable

Answer 14

So you are saying that it OK if humans go the way of the Mammoths? Strange argument to make.

Don't you anti-science types ever think about what you are posting?