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Modern man is creating environmental conditions similar to those which killed the dinosaurs some 60 million years ago, a Virginia Tech scientist believes.
Dewey M. McLean, a Tech geology professor at Blacksburg, contends in an article in this month’s Science magazine that a sudden warming trend during the late Mesozoic era led to the demise of the giant reptiles.
He cites evidence that increased carbon dioxide in 'he air created a warming 'rend or “greenhouse effect” which led to the dinosaurs’ extinct ion.
Man is causing a similar warming effect today by burning fossil fuels such as coal, oil and gas, McLean says. He believes a temperature increase of only 6 degrees Celsius during the
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