An extended bout of warm wet weather 232M years ago

I was grimly amused by a thought along the lines of Asimov's "Nightfall." Researchers started to piece together evidence of a million years of rain driven by CO2 emissions, just as the really big storms started...

Reminds me of one of my favorite scifi short stories - Finis. I won't spoil it here, but it's definitely worth a read.

Thanks for the recommendation! That was a good read. It’s available here, if anyone else is interested: http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0605041.txt

I enjoyed that book so much, but man was it depressing, too.

> I enjoyed that book so much

Book? As I recall, "Nightfall" was a novelette length story, published in the book, "Nightfall and Other Stories". Or are you are referring to the expanded book length version written by Asimov and Robert Silverberg?

Worth noting that both warm-bloodedness and some degree of feathers were almost certainly basal characteristics in dinosaurs. Would be interesting to know if these differences left them especially well suited to the changing climate.

1 million years = "bout"?

“Extended bout,” but still. I guess you think about these things very differently when you’re working on geological time scales.

because geology is so boring