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Dinosaurs Passing Wind May Have Caused Climate Change
Dinosaurs Passing Wind May Have Caused Climate Change Read more: http://nation.foxnews.com/global-w ^ | 07 May 2012 | Telegraph Staff

Posted on 05/07/2012 12:30:25 PM PDT by DaveyB

Like huge cows, the mighty sauropods would have generated enormous quantities of methane.

Sauropods, recognisable by their long necks and tails, were widespread around 150 million years ago.

They included some of the largest animals to walk the Earth, such as Diplodocus, which measured 150 feet and weighed up to 45 tonnes. <---Snip

(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...


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To: DaveyB

This concept/theory seems to work in my cubicle.


21 posted on 05/07/2012 1:20:43 PM PDT by GSWarrior
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To: DaveyB

The giant sauropods referred to were extinct by the Cretaceous. In fact the number of dinosaur species had diminished to about 26 or so. And while triceratops and the hadrosaurs may have been flatulent, I don’t thinki they were capable of producing the amount of CO2 the article envisages.


22 posted on 05/07/2012 1:21:36 PM PDT by PzLdr ("The Emperor is not as forgiving as I am" - Darth Vader)
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To: DaveyB; windcliff; stylecouncilor

So I take it that the planet Jupiter wasn’t the only gaseous giant in the solar system.


23 posted on 05/07/2012 1:23:55 PM PDT by I Drive Too Fast
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To: DaveyB

The Global Warming “scientists” have finally “jumped the shark”

What total dinosaur crap is this theory.


24 posted on 05/07/2012 1:47:32 PM PDT by Noob1999 (Loose Lips, Sink Ships)
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To: DaveyB

What passes for science today is consensus.


25 posted on 05/07/2012 1:52:41 PM PDT by OrioleFan (Republicans believe every day is July 4th, Democrats believe every day is April 15th.)
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To: DaveyB

More methane emanates from Foggy Bottom (ahem) in one year than that of the entire Jurassic. sd


26 posted on 05/07/2012 1:55:26 PM PDT by shotdog (I love my country. It's our government I'm afraid of.)
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To: DaveyB

My theory is that dinosaurs could not pass gas and that is why they are no longer with us. BANG!


27 posted on 05/07/2012 2:33:23 PM PDT by mountainlion (I am voting for Sarah after getting screwed again by the DC Thugs.)
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To: DaveyB

Paleotootology is a gas!
(WUWT article commenting on the propaganda piece.)
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/05/07/climate-craziness-of-the-week-paleotootology/#more-63027


28 posted on 05/07/2012 2:52:53 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
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To: soycd

Like the hydrogen-filled party balloons at the political rally in Armenia?


29 posted on 05/07/2012 2:55:56 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
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To: DaveyB
Lots of pre-historic broccoli for Dino & friends.
30 posted on 05/07/2012 3:07:12 PM PDT by TexasCajun
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To: DaveyB
''Our simple proof-of-concept model suggests greenhouse warming by sauropod megaherbivores could have been significant in sustaining warm climates.''

And just look what happened to the planet!!! It's, uh, .... still here.

Well, look what happened to life on the planet!!! It, uh, increased and diversified a million-fold. You could say that since the dinosaurs life has gone ape s#!t all over the world. Just catastrophic isn't it?

31 posted on 05/07/2012 3:15:45 PM PDT by TigersEye (Life is about choices. Your choices. Make good ones.)
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To: DaveyB; Sequoyah101

Thanks for posting this, DaveyB. I hadn’t seen it before.


32 posted on 05/07/2012 3:23:07 PM PDT by TigersEye (Life is about choices. Your choices. Make good ones.)
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To: Noob1999
What total dinosaur crap is this theory.

Dinosaur farts to be precise.

33 posted on 05/07/2012 3:35:43 PM PDT by JediJones (From the makers of Romney, Bloomberg/Schwarzenegger 2016. Because the GOP can never go too far left.)
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To: DaveyB

I think they may be onto something. When my dog cuts one he can clear a room. Can you possibly imagine what a dinosaur fart must have smelled like?


34 posted on 05/07/2012 3:52:18 PM PDT by Malone LaVeigh
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To: DaveyB

What a load of crap.

When one of these “scientists” can explain why the hottest period on record is the Roman period (not an SUV in sight) we’ll consider to their theories.
Until then weather happens.


35 posted on 05/07/2012 4:09:53 PM PDT by CelesteChristi
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To: DaveyB; sauropod
Like huge cows, the mighty sauropods would have generated enormous quantities of methane.

Heh.

36 posted on 05/07/2012 8:00:50 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Occupy DC General Assembly: We are Marxist tools. WE ARE MARXIST TOOLS!)
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37 posted on 05/07/2012 8:01:49 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Occupy DC General Assembly: We are Marxist tools. WE ARE MARXIST TOOLS!)
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To: DaveyB
How could the dinosaurs release more carbon into the atmosphere than was in the vegetation that they ultimately acquired it from?
38 posted on 05/08/2012 12:05:49 AM PDT by clearcarbon
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To: mountainlion

“My theory is that dinosaurs could not pass gas and that is why they are no longer with us. BANG!”

Ah, Yes! The Big Bang Extinction Theory...Perhaps we could get the fat Gore-bal warming idiot to fart in DC and extinct the occupiers of the Congressional halls and the executible branch.


39 posted on 05/08/2012 12:43:53 AM PDT by GGpaX4DumpedTea (I am a tea party descendant - steeped in the Constitutional legacy handed down by the Founders)
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To: GGpaX4DumpedTea
"Perhaps we could get the fat Gore-bal warming idiot to fart in DC and extinct the occupiers of the Congressional halls and the executible branch."

That's how he acquires more followers.


40 posted on 05/08/2012 12:58:16 AM PDT by clearcarbon
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