MPs' offices sandbagged in protests - Breaking News - National - Breaking News

The offices of MPs around Australia will be sandbagged in a graphic protest by environmental group Friends of the Earth (FOE).

FOE members are angered by Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's announcement on Monday that federal government will seek to cut Australia's carbon emissions by five per cent by 2020, spokesman Damien Lawson says.

From 10am (AEDT) on Tuesday, mock climate emergency services workers will begin sandbagging MPs' electoral offices to protect them from rising sea levels FOE says will result from climate change.

Another dinosaur extinction theory offered - UPI.com

PRINCETON, N.J., Dec. 15 (UPI) -- A U.S. geosciences professor says dinosaurs died gradually from climate change caused by volcanic eruptions in India and not because of a meteor strike.

Gerta Keller of Princeton University admits her theory contradicts the long-held hypothesis that dinosaurs died due to climate change after a giant meteor hit the Yucatan region of Mexico.

Keller bases her theory on her National Science Foundation-funded field work in India and Mexico that uncovered geologic evidence that the mass extinction and the meteor impact occurred at different times.

"The Chicxulub impact hit the Yucatan about 300,000 years before the mass extinction that included the dinosaurs and, therefore, could not have caused it," Keller said.

Keller and her team instead found the mass extinction coincided with the end of the main phase of India's Deccan eruptions, suggesting volcanism killed the dinosaurs.