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Interesting Fact of the Day:
Current climate change is happening at a pace 6.2 times faster than the climate change that resulted from the asteroid impact that killed the dinosaurs.
We have had 1.06 C change in about 150 years. The dinosaurs experienced a 4.5 degree change over 4,000 years. So for the dinosaurs it changed at a pace of 0.001125 C per year for us it has been about .007 degrees per year. So current climate change is happening 6.2x faster than it did during the extinction of the dinosaurs.
@freemo Fortunately for us, our lives are so much shorter than dinosaurs' so we don't have to witness as much change one lifetime at a time. (And in theory we could evolve around this faster, but we all know civilization kind-of worked against evolution in many ways.)
@stevenroose The idea that dinosaurs lived long lifespans is an old, now defunt, theory. The consensus is that most dinosaurs probably lived 70 or 80 years. Granted that is exceptionally long for a wild animal but about on par with modern day humans.
