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Reply #15 - Aug 27th, 2022 at 10:29pm
 
John Smith wrote on Aug 27th, 2022 at 7:13pm:
there is some pretty interesting stuff being discovered around the world in some of the regions where the rivers are drying up...


Great link!  Thanks.


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Reply #16 - Aug 28th, 2022 at 5:35am
 
From John’s excellent link:

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Most of the tracks were made by Acrocanthosaurus, which weighed nearly seven tons as an adult and stood 4.5 metres tall.

Another dinosaur, Sauroposeidon, also left tracks in the park. It measured more than 18 metres tall and weighed 44 tons in adulthood.


Imagine coming face to face with a carnivorous lizard that weighed SEVEN TONS and was 4.5m/11.6' tall!

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You can tell from those teeth this little beauty was no grass eater!
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Acrocanthosaurus was a bipedal predator. As the name suggests, it is best known for the high neural spines on many of its vertebrae, which most likely supported a ridge of muscle over the animal's neck, back, and hips.[1] Acrocanthosaurus was one of the largest theropods, with the largest specimen reaching 11 meters (36 ft) in length and weighing approximately 3.6–4.4 metric tons (4.0–4.9 short tons).[2][3][4] Large theropod footprints discovered in Texas may have been made by Acrocanthosaurus, although there is no direct association with skeletal remains.


A lizard weighing 44 tons could not move fast enough to catch prey! Which is good because a lizard 18m/59' tall would be a heart stopping sight!

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Paleoecological analysis indicates that Sauroposeidon lived on the shores of the Gulf of Mexico, in a river delta. Extrapolations based on the more completely known Brachiosaurus indicate that the head of Sauroposeidon could reach 16.5–18 m (54–59 ft) in height with its neck extended, which would make it one of the tallest known dinosaurs. With an estimated length of 27–34 m (89–112 ft) and a mass of 40–60 t (44–66 short tons), it also ranks among the longest and heaviest. However, this animal may not be as closely related to Brachiosaurus as previously thought, so these estimates may be inaccurate.

While initially described as a brachiosaurid closely related to Brachiosaurus and Giraffatitan, the discovery of additional remains in the Cloverly Formation of Wyoming suggested that it was in fact more closely related to the titanosaurs, in the group Somphospondyli. Analysis of these remains and comparison with others from Texas supported this conclusion, and demonstrated that the more completely known sauropods from the Twin Mountains Formation (including a partial skull and fossil trackways) previously named Paluxysaurus jonesi also belonged to Sauroposeidon.[5] It is the state dinosaur of Texas.[6]


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(both extracts from wiki)
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Reply #17 - Aug 28th, 2022 at 10:59am
 
Sophia wrote on Aug 27th, 2022 at 10:23pm:
John Smith wrote on Aug 27th, 2022 at 7:13pm:
there is some pretty interesting stuff being discovered around the world in some of the regions where the rivers are drying up


https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2022-08-27/drought-dried-riverbeds-hidden-tr...



It’s so interesting what lay hidden beneath the surface of water.
I’ve often thought what secrets hide down there.

And this one in lake Mead….

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10778475/Body-barrel-bottom-Lake-Mead-P...



I especially liked the bronze age city in Iraq ..what a find
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Reply #18 - Aug 28th, 2022 at 3:22pm
 
Yes, and they are doing archaeology at breakneck speed, will be under water again at some time!


Iraq—Fertile Crescent.

So US-Europe–Asia hot and dry.
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Meanwhile, Pakistan is drowning—and is demanding compensation:

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Pakistan minister says West has 'responsibility' to help with floods as it's caused climate change

Pakistan is in the midst of a huge natural disaster, with flash floods sweeping away whole villages and more than 30 million affected.

Richer countries have a "responsibility" to help Pakistan deal with flooding and prevent future disasters because they've caused climate change, its planning minister has said.

More than 1,000 people are reported to have died so far and over a million homes have been damaged.

Historic monsoon rains have also swept away roads, bridges and crops - and planning minister Ahsan Iqbal said Pakistan was feeling the effects of climate change caused by richer nations and their "irresponsible development".

"Our carbon footprint is lowest in the world," said Mr Iqbal.

"The international community has a responsibility to help us, upgrade our infrastructure, to make our infrastructure more climate resilient, so that we don't have such losses every three, four, five years."

"Those areas which used to receive rainfall aren't receiving rainfall and those areas which used to receive very mild rains are receiving very heavy rainfall," he added.

The cost of recovering from the disaster is estimated at more than $10bn (£8.54bn) and might take about five years, Mr Iqbal said in an interview with Reuters news agency.

This may be the beginning of litany of Climate compensation claims. Should countries or regions receive compensation from those who perpetrated global warming? If so, where does the buck stop?


https://news.sky.com/topic/pakistan-6263

What of critters?
Stock and people are camped in close proximity on slivers of high ground and this proximity and lack of hygiene are causing many cases of mosquito-borne dengue as well as scabies.

So the effect of AGW on critters may soon see cases in some sort of international tribunal. Freeloaders—countries too lazy to maintain infrastructure say—will doubtless join in the feeding frenzy.
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