*Giant dinosaurs could have warmed the planet with their flatulence, say researchers.
British scientists have calculated the methane output of sauropods, including the species known as Brontosaurus.
By scaling up the digestive wind of cows, they estimate that the population of dinosaurs - as a whole - produced 520 million tonnes of gas annually.
They suggest the gas could have been a key factor in the warm climate 150 million years ago*
That is a lot of gas.
What about people farts? There are estimated to be over 7 billion of us, and I know a few personally who produce prodigious amounts of butt gas. Surely we must be having an effect on the environment?
And, just wait a minute!! How do we know farts were even invented back then?? Do you seriously think T-rex would do a “Pull my finger” to a velociraptor? Seriously??
Farts were discovered, me thinks.
It appears that reptiles can indeed drop some impressive ass. Here’s an iguana fart. Imagine a brontosaurus releasing a proportionately large outburst.
The sociopath in me is kinda fascinated by the idea that millions of people may die in low-lying areas like Bangladesh because of the Burrito Supreme I had last night.
Sounds like a lot of hot air.
Also, “brontosaurus” is a misnomer.
Bully.
And I suppose next you’ll tell me Pluto’s not a planet.
Don’t be goofy, he’s a dog. 
So, given the topic of this thread, which is the better name: “deceptive lizard” or “thunder lizard”?
Well, didn’t the Brontosaur turn out to be a teenaged Apatosaur? So that would most likely be “Laughing Lizard.” Or “Lizard with the burnt spot in his pants.”
I’ve been giggling all day at this. Somebody please link to the youtube cartoons with the farting t-rex and the pig*. Who knew they would turn out to be true?
*Razzle Frazzlin’ corporate firwall. . .
Hoisted by their own petards?
More like gassed by their own pooters.
No it is not, it is an accepted synonym. Just not the preferred one. Also the article if you read it, says “Apatosaurus, formerly known as Brontosaurus”
It’s a misnomer that through ignorant usage has become misguidedly but popularly accepted as a synonym by some. It’s still a misnomer.
Your quote was not the statement I quoted from the OP. My post was a response to the statement in the OP, not the linked article.
Also, your quote is in fact erroneous. The fossil which was originally called “brontosaurus” was a screw-up; an immature fossil with the wrong head was labeled thus erroneously rather later than the original coining of “apatosaurus.”
The Washington Post 0 free newsrag characterized this story as saying the dinosaurs contributed to their own extinction, but I see nothing in the BBC link above suggesting that. Are meteors attracted to methane?
…Standing Ovation…
Forget Pluto… it is a Mickey Mouse planet. 
There’s been a fair bit of study on whether they were F’d through other means before the meteors hit.
Scientists think now that at the end of the dinosaur era a region of the earth was covered with super volcanoes, that disrupted the whole ecosystem and it put the dinosaurs in danger.
It seems that dinosaurs had survived problems like that before, but then there was the double whammy in the form of an asteroid crashing in the Yucatan, not even the T-rex could deal with that.