Opinion: Global Warming? Blame T-Rexes Cutting the Jurassic Cheese

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Steers do it, heifers do it, even pterodactyls in the air do it –

Let’s do it – let’s fart up the globe.

California’s own Dana Rohrabacher, one of the proud Republican Congressional holdouts resisting the evidence of man-made origins of global warming, argued in the face of the seminal IPCC report on climate change and global warming that ``We don’t know what those other cycles were caused by in the past. Could be dinosaur flatulence, you know, or who knows?’’

Methane from cow excretions certainly contributes to global warming -- a good reason to go vegetarian -- but alas for Congressman Rohrabacher’s timeline, dinosaurs went millions of years before the pronounced climate change referred to in the IPCC report.

Congressman Rohrabacher represents a good chunk of coastal Southern California from San Pedro to Newport Beach, which means that as the seas rise, he can still convey his scoffing incredulity by putting his remarks in bottles and floating them off to C-SPAN.