Blame Global Warming on Dinosaur Farts?!?!? - GoFuckYourself.com

cthulhu_waves · 05-07-2012, 10:29 AM

Finally, the concept of the "Dutch oven" is now being proven as a scientific theory for climate change! Scientists now speculate that farts from a dinoasaur started global warming before Mankind evolved from the apes. What will these wacky scientists think of next?

Jennifer Walsh of LiveScience.com reports.

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We might want to rename the Brachiosaurus with the moniker Gassiosaurus, new research indicates. The gassy emissions from these giant dinosaurs may have been enough to warm the Earth, the researchers say.

Sauropods are large plant-eating dinosaurs typified by such titans as Apatosaurus (once known as Brontosaurus) and Brachiosaurus. When they lived, during the Mesozoic era ? from about 250 million years ago until the dinosaurs died out 65 million years ago ? the climate was warm and wet. Nothing on Earth today compares with these giants.

The researchers found that the greenhouse gas methane produced by all sauropods across the globe would have been about 520 million tons per year, a number on par with the total amount of methane currently produced by both natural and man-made sources.

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