Back in 2007, Dana Rorhbacher (R-CA) caught a bunch of flak from the left when he joked about dinosaur farts being a cause for global warming. Some over zealous leftists even made a video to make fun of Rorhbacher’s obvious joke. They present evidence that suggests that there is no way dinosaur farts could account for “all emissions responsible for past warming cycles.”
FireDogLake couldn’t resist taking a swipe at Rorhbacher.
“Now, I know it was probably some sort of smart-assed retort to protect whatever pollution-friendly interests were funding whatever was making Rohrbacher happy in the moment but…hello?!? Yes, I’m certain that we can all stop for a moment in our day to pause and reflect on how dinosaur farts could, indeed, be the cause of a mass, global extinction. Now THAT is some powerful tooting, if you ask me.”
Think Progress also posted the FireDogLake Article on their site.
Oh but it could be true. Current Biology journal published the findings of a “scientific” study that was conducted by David Wilkinson of Liverpool John Moores University and Graeme Ruxton of the University of St. Andrews.
Wilkinson and Ruxton worked in conjunction with methane expert Euan Nisbet at the University of London to “make an educated guess about the degree to which gaseous emissions from sauropods could have warmed the atmosphere.” [Reuters; It’s a gas: dinosaur flatulence may have warmed the Earth.]
These guys came up with a mathematical formula to determine how much methane gas may have been emitted by sauropod dinosaurs. “A simple mathematical model suggests that the microbes living in sauropod dinosaurs may have produced enough methane to have an important effect on the Mesozoic climate,” said researcher Dave Wilkinson.
Here’s the neato graph they created;
So what’s the end game here? Seems to me that this is the starting gun to commence an assault on methane emissions. Australia has already placed a carbon-credit bounty on its ferral camel population. And here in the US, they’d just love to start taxing livestock, and any other animal whose flatulence may pose a supposed threat to our environment.
Keep your hemp-mittened hands off of our cows!
Here are a few tweets from “reputable” sources about the dino-farts-may-have-caused-prehistoric-warming revelation;
BBC News UK
Giant dinosaurs could have warmed Earth’s climate with their flatulence, scientists say bbc.in/J6qLxs
— BBC News (UK) (@BBCNews) May 7, 2012
Discovery News
Dinosaur Farts May Have Warmed Ancient Earth ow.ly/1jxaUq
— Discovery_News (@Discovery_News) May 7, 2012
The Huffington Post is buying it…
When dinosaur farts warmed the Earth… huff.to/IyCbFz
— Huffington Post (@HuffingtonPost) May 7, 2012
Live Science
Dinosaur Farts May Have Warmed Prehistoric Earth bit.ly/IRCU9G
— LiveScience (@LiveScience) May 7, 2012
Gizmodo
Dinosaur farts caused jurassic global warming gizmodo.com/5908144/dinosa…
— Gizmodo (@Gizmodo) May 7, 2012
TreeHugger.com
Dinosaur Farts Contributed to Global Warming, Study Suggests bit.ly/ITga2l
— TreeHugger.com (@TreeHugger) May 8, 2012
I reached out (via twitter of course) to the biggest global warming true believer on the planet. No not Al Gore silly, I’m talking about Jose Canseco.
@JoseCanseco Any thoughts on the new study that purports to show that dinosaur farts caused prehistoric global warming? livescience.com/20125-dinosaur…
— Tracy Lee (@RememberComeNov) May 8, 2012
I have yet to receive a response. If I do, I’m sure that it will be just as intelligent and coherent as his previous statements about global warming.
Will discuss global warming tommorow. U clowns can’t comprehend global warning I ask u study tonight and tommorow pop quiz
— Jose Canseco (@JoseCanseco) March 28, 2012
1 more stop global warming tip .turn your home heat all off at nite .saves $ an energy and lowers your body temp so u will live 20% longer
— Jose Canseco (@JoseCanseco) March 28, 2012
Global warming is real .We know recycling but what is precycling? Do this to save the earth .join me i will lead mylikes.com/l/1tYpY – spon
— Jose Canseco (@JoseCanseco) March 29, 2012
You clowns it’s very simple. With global warning the weather is hotter so the icebergs would be melted and titanic saved.
— Jose Canseco (@JoseCanseco) April 15, 2012
The Talk of the Times 
A global warming controversy still exists for a range of reasons.
Although everyone thought that their city or world would cease to exist, that was not the actuality.
See how much of this change is attributed to greenhouse
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Which makes him nothing mroe than a village idiot gravelling at
the feet of America’s enemies. Alfred Nobel died in 1896 and set up his foundation. There are lots of people all over the world doing this.
You’ll encounter a change in your lifestyle after undergoing this bariatric surgery. Sucrose has an awful lot more energy provision than sugar alcohols. In the first few weeks you may find that fizzy drinks cause bloating and discomfort too, so these are best avoided.