Did dinosaurs cause climate change? Huge creatures may have contributed to their own demise because they produced so much flatulence
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.
Large plant-eating sauropods would have been the main culprits because of the huge amounts of greenery they consumed.
The team calculated the animals would have collectively produced more than 520m tons of methane a year – more than all today’s modern sources put together.
It is thought these huge amounts could easily have been enough to warm the planet.
It is even possible that the climate change was so catastrophic that it caused the dinosaurs eventual demise.
One of the animals, a 90-ton argentinosaurus, which measured 140ft in length, would have consumed at least half a ton of food in one day.
After breaking down in the animal’s stomach it would have produced thousands of litres of the greenhouse gas compared with a modern cow which only produces 200 litres of methane daily.
So it wasn’t, according to those Japanese, an asteroid/meteorite that took out the Dinosaurs, but some Russian time-traveler(–via Torsen generators, check-it out!) that was observing an Argentinosaurus, who, even the mandated quarter of a mile away, injudiciously lit a Marlboro, and the ENTIRE sky “lit” up, or was it simply FATAL- ANXIETY… of the dinos over a chronic-lack of toilet paper? I know. T-Rexs, nominally the flesh-eaters of Sauria, were REALLY GLOBALIST “GREEN-POLICE” and the plant eaters, facing thousands of dollars of fines/day tickets written for un-liscenced…er, “DUMPING”…, all expired in Debtor’s Prisons and mortification over loss of Subsidy due to being declared “ECO-Felons!”
My personal concern is not related with the possibility that this research be a fake or so. What seems interesting to me is what kind of research work this people have done, apart from approximately computing the amount of gas produced by a 90-ton super-cow. Have they worked on this more than a couple of hours?
It is really cheap to become famous in this era.
I’m really impressed that they know the number, digestive process particulars of all those dino’s, GHG levels and temperatures well enough to predict climate change that long ago. Sure enough, the science is settled.
This a variable that doesn’t even have an equation. Without knowing how this would compare to the CO2 absorption by the flora mass in this era, the point is entirely moot. According to all the dino books I read as a kid, the world was a big tropical forest at this time (supported by the fact that there would have to be a lot of food to sustain these big creatures). So there’s no evidence that the carbon equation wouldn’t be in balance even with the dino flatulence.
Just claiming that farting behemoths would create Jurassic global warming, is nothing more than a simple thought experiment. Like the kind that a group of college dope smokers might come up with.
How about more hard evidence and less convenient spectulation by the global warming crowd?
Hi Thomas, perfectly agree with you.
Is there even any evidence at all that increasing temperatures killed the dinosaurs?
I don’t get bad visuals from thinking about this, but I sure get bad AUDIOS !!!
We know in broad brush what it was like 150m years ago, but not in detail. So any cockamamie theory can’t be rejected out of hand. I find it hard to believe that dino farts exceed methane generated by vegetative decomposition. However, you can make any claim you wish. Surprising anyone takes them seriously and that they get academic recognition.
Has anyone ever found a petrified turd left by one of these monsters?
Look up “coprolite”