Posted on 04/01/2014 11:15:58 AM PDT by Starman417
We have to first assume that global warming, or climate change, or whatever it's called this week, is caused by us. That is a big assumption, one that Dear Leader Barack Hussein Obama embraces. Plus, as reinforcement, we have this Fact Sheet from Obama about methane gas as a contributor to global warming, I mean climate change, uh, I mean ... :
... last June, President Obama issued a broad-based Climate Action Plan, announcing a series of executive actions to reduce carbon pollution, prepare the U.S. for the impacts of climate change, and lead international efforts to address global climate change.
We are now ready for the EPA's latest effort to waste our tax dollars. The EPA is calling for regulation of methane caused by COWS! No kidding! "Cows emit a massive amount of methane through belching, with a lesser amount through flatulence."
First, the Fact Sheet says:
The Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced seven new "climate hubs" to help farmers and ranchers adapt their operations to a changing climate and the President's Budget proposed a $1 billion in new funding for new technologies and incentives to build smarter, more resilient infrastructure to help communities prepare for a changing climate.In June, in partnership with the dairy industry, the USDA, EPA and DOE will jointly release a "Biogas Roadmap" outlining voluntary strategies to accelerate adoption of methane digesters and other cost-effective technologies to reduce U.S. dairy sector greenhouse gas emissions by 25 percent by 2020.
Sounds innocuous enough, the EPA is seeking ways to curb methane imissions, looking out for us. But (and there's always a 'but' when Obama is involved), the latest EPA efforts suggest otherwise.
Second, we get a study by the EPA, stating (Table 6-1, page 6-1) that methane (CH4) levels have increased by 13.6% (in Tg CO2 Eq. units - whatever that is) between 1990 and 2012. Never mind that emission is down by 2.3% between 2010 and 2012, and we don't know what happened in 2013.
The study says that:
Methane is produced as part of normal digestive processes in animals. During digestion, microbes resident in an animal's digestive system ferment food consumed by the animal. This microbial fermentation process, referred to as enteric fermentation, produces CH4 as a byproduct, which can be exhaled or eructated [belched] by the animal. The amount of CH4 produced and emitted by an individual animal depends primarily upon the animal's digestive system, and the amount and type of feed it consumes.
The study says that ruminant animals, such as cattle, buffalo, sheep, goats, and camels, are the major emitters of CH4 because of their unique digestive system. Seventy one percent of methane came, in 2012, from beef cattle, 25% from dairy cattle, and 4% from the rest of the animals. So, according to Obama's fact sheet, the EPA is going to go after the lesser source of methane - dairy cattle, while ignoring beef cattle. WOW! I can now sleep easier knowing tha the EPA is protecting me - said very sarcastically.
(Excerpt) Read more at floppingaces.net...
The best way to fix this is to fix the bacteria that produce CH4....
That is if it is even a problem worth fixing....
If the gut bacteria could be fixed to make them MORE efficient and produce LESS CH4 it would be the best of both worlds, but that would not mesh with the PETA type agenda....
Their last Greatest Hit with the American peasant was this winter, when the EPA got away with sticking it to peasants who heat with propane:
Propane shortage linked to ethanol
"To anyone wondering why there is a shortage of propane and doubling and tripling of the price this year: One reason is the 2007 government mandate on ethanol production.
Farmers planted record acres of corn in the spring of 2013. In fact, they planted corn in places it’s never been planted before. Corn was planted so far north that it didn’t ripen and mature before winter set in.
In a normal year, propane is put into storage in September, October and November in anticipation of the winter heating season. But this year, that propane was used to dry corn that was immature and wet.
You can’t blame farmers for planting more corn to take advantage of the fact that 30 percent of our corn crop is used to make ethanol..."
The EPA has made it profitable for farmers to dry wet, green corn in the early winter with propane energy, in order to produce ethanol energy. Somehow, I doubt the energy trade is even in the slightest.
At least you propane-heating peasants got it up the wazoo dry with the EPA's ethanol rhino horn, and you didn't even know that they were responsible!
BTW - they'll do it again this year, if they're not stopped.
So your telling me Noah saved all those animals so they could poison us with their farts?
I don’t think God has that kind of sense of humor
As with every other leftist proposal, it’s all about control.
Now hold on one cow belching minute here.
Would this same EPA complain if the great plains were covered with oceans of bison before the evyil white man killed them all?
Evil Parasitic Antogonists
Conservative group sues EPA over its ‘IRS-like’ tactics
global warming, or climate change, or whatever it’s called this week
DON’T let them change the term! On the same note, don’t give them “progressive” either!
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