re: #228 celticdragon

Gotta run in a moment, fellow scaly ones.

Today’s highlight in paleontology lab: My powerpoint on

Correlations and Causation of the End Permian, End Triassic and K-T Boundary mass Extinctions.

Free pizza and caffeinated beverages also, which should help keep my classmates awake…!

Speaking of which, the AGW-denial-o-sphere (e.g, Telegraph, NRO) are beating the drums about global warming causing cooling causing the dinos to perish, based on a totally idiotic interpretation of this paper and comments by the researchers on related work:
Valanginian isotope variation in glendonites and belemnites from Arctic Svalbard: Transient glacial temperatures during the Cretaceous greenhouse