Just Ask the Dinosaurs

I don’t know about you, but I’m tired of the climate change arguments flying back and forth. Our earth is alive, its surface moving and jostling around. The land under our feet shifts constantly.

Millions of years ago, the dinosaurs called the earth home. They enjoyed a sweltering humid climate. Antartica covered not with ice but humongous deciduous trees. Dinosaurs also lived there, at the bottom of the world, not penguins.

Around 2 million years ago, the earth took a chill. Ice covered parts of Asia, North and South America, and Europe. Animals, like mammoths, protected by thick furry coats, luxuriated in the earth’s dry, frigid climate.

Thousands of years ago, the climate tempered from chill to just right. Man thrived even in the frosty areas of the earth. Recently, the weather is more sultry, dry and in places more wet than usual.

Getting to the point, our climate changes, we don’t live in a static world. Just ask the dinosaurs. They’re extinct, you say.

No, they’re chickens or birds if you want to be exact. Climate change and other factors reduced roaring prehistoric monsters into clucking poultry.

Maybe our greenhouse gas emissions are to blame, possibly not. But I wonder whose Sunday dinner we’ll be in another 60 million years.