"He who smelt it, dealt it."
And by the way, "mammoth farts" means farts from mammoths, and not just enormous farts from anyone else, like bad-mannered neanderthals. From the You Couldn't Make It Up Department:
SCIENTISTS believe gassy mammoths helped to fill the atmosphere with methane and keep the Earth warm more than 13 thousand years ago.
Experts estimate that, together with other large plant-eating mammals that are now extinct, they released about 9.6 million tonnes of the gas each year.
When the megafauna disappeared there was a dramatic fall in atmospheric methane which may have altered the climate, British scientists say.
Analysis of gases trapped in ice cores suggests that the loss of animal emissions accounted for a large amount of the decline.
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9.6 million tons is like spitting in the ocean. Is this satire?? It’s hard to believe any sane person could come up with this, outside of a kid being funny.
It’s like adding 8 billion GT of CO2 to a estimated resident CO2 of 40,000 GT….another drop in the ocean.
It appears that AR4 is a mammoth fart in its own right! The stench is undeniable.
Global Warming= He who smelt it, dealt it!
the Great Crepitation Contest of 1948
http://randsesotericotr.podbean.com/2008/05/14/
gofer’s wrong of course, it’s like farting in the bath. Thank heaven methane’s lighter than air, or I’d have died a thousand deaths in the tub. I wonder why mammoths had such thick coats? Perhaps they were sensitive to small changes in temperature, as we’re intended to believe the earth’s climate is.
I shouldn’t have to wait long it seems, to make my fortune. Seawater is becoming so corrosively acid that I’ll set up a battery manufacturing company to use all that free acid, to power all the low-carbon (I HATE that word – it’s carbon dioxide – struth!) four-wheel electric people-exterminators that’ll make our dull lives mean something.
BTW I claim copyright on “You Couldn’t Make It Up Department” – I have deleted emails and a vintage hockey-stick to prove it :
SpoofGate: Climate Scientists Put Poor Spoof Writers Out of Work
http://www.thespoof.com/news/magazine/spoofgate_climate_scientists_put_poor_spoof_writers_out_of_work_6468.htm
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