Posted on 05/08/2012 10:33:06 AM PDT by JoeProBono
Like gigantic, long-necked, prehistoric cows, sauropod dinosaurs roamed widely around the Earth 150 million years ago, scientists reported in the journal Current Biology on Monday.
In a major new climate finding, researchers have calculated that dinosaur flatulence could have put enough methane into the atmosphere to warm the planet during the hot, wet Mesozoic era.
Like gigantic, long-necked, prehistoric cows, sauropod dinosaurs roamed widely around the Earth 150 million years ago, scientists reported in the journal Current Biology on Monday.
And just like big cows, their plant digestion was aided by methane-producing microbes.
"A simple mathematical model suggests that the microbes living in sauropod dinosaurs may have produced enough methane to have an important effect on the Mesozoic climate," researcher Dave Wilkinson of Liverpool John Moores University said in a statement....
(Excerpt) Read more at csmonitor.com ...
Stories like this make me want to go out and burn some styrofoam.
Rush was just talking about this. If I remember correctly, Methane like CO2 has a zero point zero percentage in the earths atmosphere. Something like 0.00016% (CO2 is 0.04%) And as we all know, when something is virtually zero, that still qualifies as pollution to liberals.
That’s in the same league as Medieval Global Warming being caused by Vikings burning all those peasant villages.
Try not to be so negative. I feel sure that if we can figure out how many dinosaurs there were at a given time, their total mass and what they were eating, we can calculate the temperature rise if they all passed gas in unison. If you don’t mind, work on that while I’m gone. I have to make a trip to the bathroom.
The number one cause of most historical climate change events: The Sun
Volcanoes and possibly space debris(meteors/asteroids) produced the rest.
But didn’t we learn that it was the ice age that killed them???
“Pull my tail.”
Dinosaur flatulence. Biden? Helen Thomas? So this is how the end of the worls is gonna happen? If this theory is true, we are toast.
ping
Ooooh that smell
Can’t you smell that smell
Ooooh that smell
The smell of death surrounds you
Hey look—a comet!
Smells like BULLSTALIN.
Dinosaurs are like cows? Try milking a T-Rex......”Our cheese will take a bite out of you!”
Now that’s the opposite of what I’ve “learned” in my Historical Geology class (darn final is tomorrow). We’re taught that methane is much more potent as a greenhouse gas than CO2 and that Methane is going to cause the world to become super hot AND KILL US ALL!!!
*cue the professor running around frothing at the mouth*
Seriously.
DS
Junk science anyone?
PING
I demand reparations!
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