Humans Soon To Be Extinct... Say It Ain't So!!

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and if the dinosaur-
greenhouse extinction theory is indeed true, then we are also in danger of dying
from the greenhouse vertebrate killing mechanism, abrupt atmospheric changes,
and the other effects caused by the increased greenhouse effect and people
should know about the consequences of what we are doing to the earth. My paper
examines the similarities occurring in the two time periods and the possible
results that we may soon be facing in the very near future. I am hoping that
exposure to the inevitable danger that we are soon going to be facing, will
spark action and concern within whomever reads my paper. It is a problem that
we all have tended to shrug off and not worry about, but if we don't start
worrying about it soon, there will not be anyone around to worry about. The
time for action is now. We may still be able to change the future. 
Humans Soon to Become Extinct? Can it be?
Roughly sixty-five million years ago a tremendous extinction of ...

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to as a "Greenhouse Planet". This means
that the earth is warmed by certain gases (fig a1) that without which our earth
would be as cold and barren as the moon, and unsuitable for even the most basic
life to exist. These greenhouse gases, mostly carbon dioxide and water vapor,
in the earth's atmosphere trap heat from the sun causing the earth to be thirty
degrees warmer than it would be without them. (fig a3) (McLean, 1978, p.1) It
is this extra warmth that allows earth to harbor life.
Carbon dioxide was and still is released into the atmosphere
continuously by natural sources such as volcanoes, hot springs, fumaroles, and
geysers. The natural processes on the surface of the ...

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