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Tuesday, May 08, 2012

Did Farting Kill the Dinosaurs?

Gassy vegetarians like the Brontosaurus may have produced so much methane that they triggered global warming, possibly hastening their extinction

While scientists are touting a new study of dinosaur flatulence as a "major new climate finding," the media is greeting it with undisguised mirth. According to this research, the prehistoric beasts may have tooted so much methane into the air that they triggered a catastrophic climate change and, consequently, their own extinction. Here's a guide to the revolutionary — and, for some, giggle-worthy — findings:

What's this new research?A study by a team of British scientists published in Current Biology argues that dinosaur flatulence "turned the Earth into one giant Dutch oven, contributing significantly to a warmer climate 150 million years ago," says Slate. When long-necked sauropod dinosaurs like the Brontosaurus digested vast amounts of plants and vegetation, they produced methane, says Reuters, a potent greenhouse gas that has "as much as 25 times the climate-warming potential as carbon dioxide," and ultimately warmed the planet during the "hot, wet Mesozoic era."

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

This is just the new angle these liberal funded scientists are taking to try and create another tax to fund their fake research.

Anonymous said...

Saw this on Channel 16 on Delmarva Life. What is wrong with the two of them hosting it. She always laughts like, so phony, and he always has a screwed up face. I will never watch it again. And what the heck was a sheriff's deputy doing crime stop on there today? Doesn't PAC 14 bring results for them. This show is an embarrasment to the Eastern Shore. Please WBOC take it off the air.

Anonymous said...

This is not only absolutely true, it's the reason that the Obama Administration and the genetically modified vegetables and meat animals are fattening up the human race. I mean, the proof is all around us! The whole theory is that if we all go to giant 300=400 pound size and eat more and more, we will develop a toilet/ gas collector (plugged in at night and in your desk chair at work) to totally power all offices and homes across America! Methane is the Answer!No more electric bills, no more dependence on foreign oil! WE WILL BECOME THE DINOSAURS, but WE will know how to handle it! Difference is, we will never be exstinked from this cause we are smarter than Dino!

I am just surprised someone went and let the cat out of the bag prematurely...

Dang...

Bullard Construction said...

Dang, Joe! I really meant to NOT anon that comment about "This is absolutely real" but meant to claim it in name! Oh, well...

Anonymous said...

Happening right now with all the factory farmed animals producing methane gas.

Anonymous said...

The fart tax is coming! Anything the liberals do ends in a tax.

Anonymous said...

OMG! Vegetarians are the true cause of "Globle Warming". Eat more chicken, lol