Pull my finger!
Posted on 05/07/2012 8:08:58 AM PDT by lward99
Dinosaurs may be partly to blame for a change in climate because they created so much flatulence, according to leading scientists.
Professor Graeme Ruxton of St Andrews University, Scotland, said the giant animals spent 150 years emitting the potent global warming gas, methane. ...
Read more: http://times247.com/articles/scientists-suggest-dinosaurs-tooted-a-new-climate#ixzz1uCGVTUeC
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that is stupid
Funny - the dinosaurs say the same thing about scientists.
I thought the dinosaurs were killed off by a comet. Or a volcanic eruption. Or an ice age.
Certainly not because it got warmer. Dinosaurs like it warm.
So now we’re saying that the creatures of Jurrasic Park caused global warming tens of millions of years ago????
Geez, who knew???????
I always wondered if Cro-Magnon Man and Neanderthals caused global warming with their campfires. But it sounds like global warming goes way back before the ascent of man.
Makes you wonder if these “scientists” were astute enough to understand this catch 22.
I *would* wonder what dinosaur toots sounded like, IF I thought it wasn’t stupid. . but, I can sort of imagine based on how LOUD some human toots sound. :o)
I *would* wonder what dinosaur toots sounded like, IF I thought it wasn’t stupid. . but, I can sort of imagine based on how LOUD some human toots sound. :o)
Ah, yes... “Scientists”, once again conjecturing on a cause that fits a preconceived assumption.
The dinosaurs were not the only ones full of gas. Is being a complete imbecile a pre-requisite for being one of these “scientists”?
I am being to question all scientific findings. Perhaps the earth is flat and the sun revolves around us.
They were killed off by a global flood and the drastically different climate that followed.
during an earth quake ,you should hold on to a wall to keep it from falling down , these people think small ,there is nothing life on earth can do to change climate
If dinosaur flatulence caused climate change that triggered the ice age, then considering all the refried beans that were consumed this Cinco de Mayo weekend, we’re DOOMED!
OK,now I understand”Climate Change”.It’s caused by too much flatulence and exhaling?????????????????????????????
The problem with this hypothesis is that the really big herbivores lived for many millions of years with no problems. They actually became rarer just before dinosaur extinction. And the dinosaurs did not become extinct because of too much DGW (dinosaurian global warming), for the climate was very gradually cooling at the end of the Cretaceous Period. Evceryone should have been happen, one would think. Several large groups of dinosaurian reptiles were doing fine right until the end.
Not only dinosaurs went extinct at the end of the Cretaceous. Ammonites also disappeared (after a successful run of some 150,000,000 years), along with rudists, and several large oysters which hitherto had been common. Yet plants seem to have been very little bothered by whatever happened.
Crocodilians, the closest living relatives to dinosaurs (if we do not count birds!), survived. The horseshoe crabs continued as if nothing had happened. Possums were also not bothered, and various archaic mammals survived, as did the birds.
I’s say his research may have been overly influenced by an excess of single malt.
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