Tuesday, 29 May 2018

Dinosaur-Killing Impact May Have Superheated Earth’s Atmosphere for 100,000 Years

An artist's (very dramatic) impression of what an asteroid impact on Earth would look like

The Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event didn't just kick off a short-term apocalyptic winter -- it may have turned the planet's thermostat up dramatically for a hundred thousand years.

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