Secular Café: Can't be Global warming, dinosaurs are dead

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Can't be Global warming, dinosaurs are dead May 7th 2012, 19:07 but maybe they gassed themselves to death. :evil: Quote: Dinosaur Farts May Have Warmed Ancient Earth The greenhouse gas methane produced by all sauropods across the globe would have been about 520 million tons per year. Mon May 7, 2012 02:41 PM ET Content provided by Jennifer Welsh, LiveScience Staff Writer THE GIST Between the heft of dinosaurs and their fiber-rich diets, it's likely they produced a lot of gas. Gassy dinos could have been a major factor in Earth's warming. Diplodocus, discovered in 1877, is one of the longest known dinosaurs. It was probably also very gassy. Click to enlarge this image. Mark Garlick/Science Photo Library/Corbis 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. [Album: World's Biggest Beasts] .... http://news.discovery.com/animals/di...ts-120507.html

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