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Boiling Dinosaurs Bring Extinction Drama to TV Life: Hoelterhoff

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As the emissaries of 190 countries gathered in Lima, Peru, for the annual conference on climate change -- dumping yet more carbon dioxide into the air -- I watched dinosaurs boiling to death on my TV screen.

A toothy beast rears up in pain before collapsing into a bubbly broth. Fires rage. Dust obscures the sun for years.