Posted on 03/11/2009 7:25:00 AM PDT by Notoriously Conservative
Thursday, March 05, 2009 By Andrea Thompson
Aquatic animals that feed on lake and stream bottom sediments burp out small amounts of nitrous oxide, a potent greenhouse gas, a new study finds.
While the biological emissions from these critters pales in comparison to the nitrous oxide emitted by fossil fuel burning, their contribution could increase as more and more nitrogen-rich fertilizer runs off into lakes, streams and seas, the authors of the study said.
Nitrous oxide (N2O) is more commonly known to anyone who has sat in the dentist's chair as laughing gas.
In the atmosphere it is a powerful greenhouse gas, packing about 310 times the punch as the same weight of carbon dioxide (though carbon dioxide is still the bigger driver because there is much more of it).
Excerpt, read the rest here.
Links: (On site) Conservationist Move to Protect Pint-Sized Animals May Ruin Businesses in the West Ice in East Antarctica a Bigger Threat Long Term NASA's Chief Climate Scientist Stirs Controversy With Call for Civil Disobedience Scientist: Global Warming Evidence, Claims Exaggerated Failed Rocket Launch Hurts Global-Warming Studies Ex-Astronaut: Global Warming Is Bunk
http://www.notoriouslyconservative.com/2009/03/burping-worms-may-contribute-to-global.html
They are NOT saying that worm burps are harming our environment. Is that what they are saying????
OMG....and this is where the stimulus is going.....MONEY WELL SPENT.......yeh right!
Nature is destroying the planet!
“Nitrous oxide (N2O) is more commonly known to anyone who has sat in the dentist’s chair as laughing gas”
let’s pipe it in directly to the whitehouse.
THE WORMS...THE WORMS...KILL THEM ALL!!!!
ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGHHHHHHHH.....
IT’S THEM OR US..........
Yep, that’s what they are saying.
Maybe later this week I’ll impale a few on a barbed hook and then water torture them in the lake.
“Maybe later this week I’ll impale a few on a barbed hook and then water torture them in the lake.”
Hahahaha...when you need to dispose of the bodies, see if you can get some fish to swallow em...
“Maybe later this week I’ll impale a few on a barbed hook and then water torture them in the lake.”
That’s the least those global warming causing bastards deserve.
Then to make sure, I should clean out the guts of the fish and bury them in my garden - thus completing the carbon cycle. I’ll dispose of the bodies of the fish in other ways.
Now we’ll have to drastically reduce our nitrogen-rich runoff in order to save the planet.
Never mind that less CO2 and now less nitrogen enriching will significantly reduce our crop yields.
Flatulent livestock must be brought back to (insert arbitrary year here) levels within 100 months or the end of civilization will be unavoidable.
Perhaps severely crippling taxes on these AGW activities poisoning our biosphere will help curb this imminent catastrophe!
Seems to be just too many people on this planet anyways, so less food that becomes exceptionally expensive should encourage the breeders to promptly seek out sterilization!
I had a scientist tell me that the biggest producer of C02 was actually termites. Not humans. I believe him.
Good thing those worms didn’t destroy the planet before us humans got here in time to stop them.
“Good thing those worms didn’t destroy the planet before us humans got here in time to stop them.”
Yeah...but, I tnink they’re new here on earth, aren’t they???
“Nitrous oxide (N2O) is more commonly known to anyone who has sat in the dentist’s chair as laughing gas.”
So all of these worms is high?
“Flatulent livestock must be brought back to (insert arbitrary year here) levels within 100 months or the end of civilization will be unavoidable.”
wouldn’t it be cheaper to lace their feed with Beano???
BULL CRAP
The enviro nuts think that EVERYTHING is the cause of global warming so let’s ban everything starting with enviro nuts.
So have Algore or Barney Frank written the worms to notify them of their unacceptable behavior? Have the worms applied for some sort of government grant for the purchase of Digel or Tums? And what about the dangers of worm flatulence? After all, upset tummies lead to far worse things than just burping!
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