What complete and utter bullshit!!
Anything to support the AGW Cult's agenda can make it pass their pal-review.

Don't think we need to go so far back-of course we just know the people of Mesoamerica didn't know what they were writing. Just a bunch of human-sacrificing, hallucinogenic- taking savages right?

The sacred book of the Mayas, the Popul Vuh, says: "It was ruin and destruction... the sea was piled up... it was a great inundation... people were drowned in a sticky substance raining from the sky... the face of the earth grew dark and the gloomy rain endured days and nights... and then there was a great din of fire above their heads." The entire population was annihilated. Other Central American myths contain stories of a deluge of sticky rain of bitumen from heaven; men were seized by madness and tried to escape it by sheltering in caverns but the caverns were suddenly closed. The cataclysm was preceded by a collision of stars and was followed by an inundation of the sea.

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Neither did that burning oil.

Are you reading the same article?

Wait, wait just a minute here...........if burning "oil" did the deed in causing the extinction, and if oil is a fossil fuel derived from the decayed carcasses of dinosaurs, then where did the oil come from in the first place? Timeline here:

.....................we're expected to believe that during the entire era of dinosaurs that upon the death of a dinosaur their carcasses by some sort of magic instantly turns into oil? That's the depiction the author presents in the picture., dinosaur dies, oil shows up on the surface of the ground & burns up the remaining population of the critters & that's how we get oil today pumped up from thousands of feet from underground.

benni, did you REALLY ask that?

Are you unaware how many millions of years we had plants and no dinosaurs? Oil is from decomposed plants, benni, not animals.

No geek, you don't know what you're talking about.

Coal is a fossil fuel derived ONLY from vegetation sources. Oil that is pumped from thousands of feet underground does not originate from vegetation, therefore cannot be a fossil fuel if the Author's timeline is assumed to be correct. I don't need Differential Equations to do this math.

Let's see what Shell Oil has to say about it:

http://www.shell....-ch1.pdf

The oil and gas deposits started forming about 350 to 290 million years ago during the Carboniferous Period, which gets its name from the basic element in oil and gas: carbon. A popular belief is that oil comes from dead dinosaurs. It doesn't. The giant reptiles lived mostly from 250 to 65 million years ago, and most scientists believe oil actually comes from the tiniest plants and animals that preceded them.

Well, what have we here, the BH Perpetual Motion Math guys who don't know oil & gas formations are continuously being formed underground today.

Maybe you Perpetual Motion Math slogs can tell us all about the little animals & vegetative stuff living thousands of feet underground today, dies, then becomes oil?

I get it, you have a picture of a hollow interior of the planet just teeming with life forms which decay upon death & just sort of percolates from up through the mantle & into the sedimentary layer to form oil & gas. I can see why none of you made to Differential Equations & Phys1 didn't get past 1st semester physics.

oil & gas formations are continuously being formed underground today

Oh, look there, @Lenni is an abiogenic oil crank, too.

oil & gas formations are continuously being formed underground today

Oh, look there, @Lenni is an abiogenic oil crank, too.

A tiny insight into the even tinier mind of the consummate mouth breather. You must take pity, for such simple spewings do take their toll but provides it with those desperately needed moments of bliss.

Hey, they're poppin' out all over the place, @boreacle is another abiogenic oil crank.

You guys prolly don't "believe in" the Apollo Moon landings, either. Every crank theory on the 'Net seems to find its way into your teeny tiny minds.

You guys prolly don't "believe in" the Apollo Moon landings, either.

LOL.
A mouth breather doing what it does best, just parroting the catechisms fed to it by the AGW Cult and incapable of realizing that they are designed to nurture its condition.

Antigoracle

The largest mass extiction in history was probably caused by massive coal/oil deposits in Siberia catching fire at the end of the Permian.

During the previous periods, the Ordovician, the Devonian, and carboniferous, land plants evolved for the first time.
CO2 levels were much higher back then, and the planet was warmer and effectivelily the entire plane was covered in rain forest, there was no ice caps.
During the Permian, all those forests CO2 levels dropped to level comparable to today, albiet a little higher, and ice caps formed. All that carbon, vast amounts was stored in oil and gas, and most of the fossil fuel beds that exist today are still remnants of those ancient first forests, hence the name "Carboniferous".

Oh wait... you don't care

While there is merit to the proposition of these researchers, this remains mere hypothesis.

The only way to (largely) confirm it would be to drill bores across the entire extent(and beyond) of the impact crater. While it is true that the region features vast petroleum deposits, it doesn't necessarily follow that the asteroid plowed right into one of them.

And no --oil company records can't be used to reconstruct the stratigraphy, since they use a different drilling method, which isn't designed to preserve core samples.

It is also entirely possible --maybe even likely-- that this massive impact triggered some secondary effects by way of vulcanism and earthquakes, which may have produced or added to these theorized effects.

AntigoracleThe largest mass extiction in history was probably caused by massive coal/oil deposits in Siberia catching fire at the end of the Permian.

No offence old chap, but I think you'll find that the Siberian Traps are due to a flood basalt episode. Similar to the Deccan Traps, but considerably greater in extent. Never heard of this coal/ oil thingy.

You guys prolly don't "believe in" the Apollo Moon landings, either.

LOL.
A mouth breather doing what it does best, just parroting the catechisms fed to it by the AGW Cult and incapable of realizing that they are designed to nurture its condition.

Somebody translate that into English, and explain what it means. Please!

Well, what have we here, the BH Perpetual Motion Math guys who don't know oil & gas formations are continuously being formed underground today.

Maybe you Perpetual Motion Math slogs can tell us all about the little animals & vegetative stuff living thousands of feet underground today, dies, then becomes oil?

I get it, you have a picture of a hollow interior of the planet just teeming with life forms which decay upon death & just sort of percolates from up through the mantle & into the sedimentary layer to form oil & gas. I can see why none of you made to Differential Equations & Phys1 didn't get past 1st semester physics.

Jeez, this guy is a serious f*ckw*t, eh?

Wait, wait just a minute here...........if burning "oil" did the deed in causing the extinction, and if oil is a fossil fuel derived from the decayed carcasses of dinosaurs, then where did the oil come from in the first place? Timeline here:

.....................we're expected to believe that during the entire era of dinosaurs that upon the death of a dinosaur their carcasses by some sort of magic instantly turns into oil? That's the depiction the author presents in the picture., dinosaur dies, oil shows up on the surface of the ground & burns up the remaining population of the critters & that's how we get oil today pumped up from thousands of feet from underground.

Yep, my previous comment was right; this guy seriously is a f*ckw*t.

Come on, Benni, you can't be that thick! You do realise that all the gas and oil beneath Antarctica is due to dead Penguins. Right?

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Petroleum has rescued out civilization you brainwashed silly person.
Politics is ruining our culture. From climate change to this kind of crap.
Those who teach this mode of thought can find nothing good in mankind. Remember we too are the hand of nature. We change the world and it changes us. Just had get that little BS political jab in at the end. Ruining an other wise enlightening paper with that baloney. Stick to science or get an opposing opinion back when you toss one out. I can balance much more good on the petrochemical side than bad. Extend your knowledge past your politics.