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Old 21-11-2007, 07:19 AM
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Re: Is Global Warming a Natural Phenomenon?

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Originally Posted by Interpreter View Post
This is a little tongue in cheek.

If cows and vegeterians are to blame for most of the greenhouse gasses being emitted today, what was happening 65 million years ago? How much CO2 would an 80 ton brontosaurus produce at one end and methane at the other and how many of these creatures could the earth support before global warming became an issue?

Just a thought.
Ha! I've a chart in one of my books that shows just how much methane animals produce in a day and how many kettles it would boil! Joking aside, it might have been more interesting if they had done it on rice fields.
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