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     Table of Contents     Abstract.....................................page     Body.........................................pages     Bibliography.................................page     Appendix.....................................pages           organize List.........................page          Figures.................................page          Figures.................................page          Figures.................................page          Figures.................................page          Figures.................................page          Figures.................................page& nbsp         Figures.................................page     Abstract     Ever since Dewey McLean (1978) proposed a dinosaur deadion theorythat states that a climatic change killed the dinosaurs, it has become thesingle most accepted theory for the dinosaur extinctions deep down the scientificcommunity. It is called the dinosaur- nursery extinction theory. It saysthat a climate change via the greenhouse effect killed off the dinosaurs. Mypaper takes this proposed theory and relates it to the world today. Some of thethings that happened arse then are in any case happening now, and if the dinosaur-greenhouse extinction theory is indeed true, then we are also in danger of destructionfrom the greenhouse vertebrate killing mechanism, abrupt atmospheric changes,and the other cause caused by the increased greenhouse effect and peopleshould know about the consequences of what we are doing to the earth. My paperexamines the similarities occurring in the dickens time periods and the possibleresults that we whitethorn soon be facing in the very near future. I am hoping thatexposure to the inevitable danger that we are soon qualifying to be facing, willspark action and concern within whomever reads my paper. It is a problem thatwe all have tended to shrug off and not irritation about, but if we dont startworrying about it soon, there will not be anyone around to worry about. Thetime for action is now. We may take over be able to change the future.      Humans Soon to Become extinct? Can it be?     Roughly sixty-five million years past a tremendous extinction of sphericproportions hit the planet earth. This global extinction was so severe that ithas defined the boundary between two periods of geologic history called theCretaceous and the Tertiary periods. All but a few mammals on land and waterbecame extinct. (McLean,1978,p.1) The best known of these extinct animals fromthis mass extinction are the huge and mighty dinosaurs. What killed them nobody rattling knows and probably will never know, but scientist havent hesitated totheorize about it. at that place have been theories ranging from human involvement todisease to even aliens. However, of all the theories of the so called K-Textinctions, the single most accepted theory is called The Volcano GreenhouseTheory. This theory states that a chain of volcanoes in India, called "theDeccan Traps", released vast quantities of the greenhouse gas light speed dioxideinto earths atmosphere trapping heat from the sun, (McLean,1988,p.2) andturning earths surface into "the hot, sterilizing, hell of a major greenhouse."(McLean 1981,p.1) If the dinosaurs did in fact die from the Volcano-Greenhousetheory, then we are also in danger of becoming extinct from the Vertebrate