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
(Excerpt) Read more at times247.com ...
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.
I totally agree. Tell a ship in the middle of an ocean during a vicious storm that man controls the climate.
You just can’t make this stuff up.
Oh, now I get it. This looks like a joke, but it is probably just another Obama campaign stunt, it being frequently difficult to ascertain the difference.
We must re-elect 0 or we will go the way of the dinosaurs.
This was before the aliens killed the dinosaurs?
Yeah I watched Ancient Aliens the other night. LOL
While this article scores high on conventional wisdom and political relevance, it is absurd. There is geological evidence for the comet but none for this sudden overheating. The climate was quite hot then in comparison with today. Geological evidence supports the dinosaurs being in decline near the end. The climate has been in a constant state of change forever. Oh well, I’m sure this will go over well with the folks that want to kill 90% of us to save Gaia.
This article illustrates the point that Western Science is reaching the bottom!( Pun intended)
ya know, anything to end the torture. If we have to go the way of the dinosaurs, so be it
Sorry, you cannot publish that theory unless you have a government-funded research grant.
And people think I’m silly for wondering about the effect of whale farts on today’s oceans...
I know the atmosphere in our home changes when my husband has flatulence.
This is just the Left’s lazy assed inane excuse for continuing the AGW (I guess now we should include DGV for Dinosaur) myth. They do this because they are willing to lie often and hard enough to make their imbecile, leeching ass constituency believe what they spew. If it weren’t so pitiful, it would be funny. About all I can think of now is that masterpiece movie, “The Gods Must Be Crazy.”
Me too - Edgar Cayce said the Atlantean’s nuked the dinosaurs and that we would discover a way to date things using carbon then discover we were wrong - at the turn of the 20th century.
Me too - Edgar Cayce said the Atlantean’s nuked the dinosaurs and that we would discover a way to date things using carbon then discover we were wrong - at the turn of the 20th century.
Democrat and Republican naked ambition.
No one gives a flying flip about our country. It’s all about the money.
It seems so, FRiend.
Then we are truly doomed. The dinosaurs’ farting is no match for the gas spewing from both ends of Democrats these days. Stick a cork in both ends of a lib to stop global warming, yeah, that’s the ticket.
Have you been saving that just for this day?
“Breakwindandsoreass”
I wouldn’t get that grant,
because the government has the same 1st commandment that God has.
“Hormel Chili: The Death Machine”
The dinosaurs did it! .... THE DINOSAURS DID IT!!.... Send money!
Notice the technique of assuming what you’re wanting to prove.
In this case, it’s even more insididious because it’s almost a side issue that is assuming what they are wanting to prove.
Is it a late April Fools joke??
A 7-Foot, Fire-Breathing, Jet Engine R-C Flying Dragon - Geekologie
[ Me too - Edgar Cayce said the Atlantean’s nuked the dinosaurs and that we would discover a way to date things using carbon then discover we were wrong - at the turn of the 20th century. ]
Friday there was an episode of Ancient Aliens that postulated that the dinosaurs were nuked by Aliens....
Dinosaurs created global warming via farting, which led to more dinosaurs since they liked the warmth, which led to more farting, more dinosaurs and so on until one fine day an asteroid entered the atmosphere, igniting all that methane, blowing dinosaur carcasses plumb underground. That’s how they got there. Natural gas is ancient residual dinosaur fatrs.
I thought the liberals would be driving around in a Government Motors Volt!
I guess 1 CFU = 1000 DFU (DinoFartUnits)
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