Posted on 09/29/2017 2:59:25 PM PDT by upchuck
A new NASA-sponsored study shows that global methane emissions produced by livestock are 11 percent higher than estimates made last decade. Because methane is a particularly nasty greenhouse gas, the new finding means it’s going to be even tougher to combat climate change than we realized.
We’ve known for quite some time that greenhouse gases produced by cattle, sheep, and pigs are a significant contributor to global warming, but the new research, published in Carbon Balance and Management, shows it’s worse than we thought. Revised figures of methane produced by livestock in 2011 were 11 percent higher than estimates made in 2006 by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)—a now out-of-date estimate.
It’s hard to believe that belches, farts, and poop from livestock could have any kind of global atmospheric effect, but it’s an issue of scale, and the nature of methane itself.
There are approximately 1.5 billion cows on the planet, each and every one of them expelling upwards of 30 to 50 gallons of methane each day. We typically think of farts as being the culprit, but belches are actually the primary source of cattle-produced methane, accounting for 95 percent of the problematic greenhouse gas.
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Why did my furnace kick on this morning, then ?
Dubious. I’m willing to bet that if million of buffalo roamed the west there would be no issue though there systems are the same.
And the other side:
http://www.chelseagreen.com/cows-save-the-planet
http://www.npr.org/2013/06/17/191670717/cows-to-the-rescue-soils-secrets-for-saving-the-earth
Once upon a time there were millions of buffalo wandering the west, lots of methane there.
And once these idiots get their way of getting rid of all meat products, they will go after humans because there will be too many of us farting and belching and whatnot. Oh wait, they are already doing that by making sure abortion is a so-called “human right.”
Bison farts good! Bovine farts bad!
You have not consumed enough Big Macs....
Yet the same over population people are anti war. Go figure.
Bill Nye the phony science guy. :-)
Great links. Thnx...
They’re going after the meat now.
I say we get a million person farting and belching march on D.C.
AND THIS GUY IS TRYING TO SAVE THEM!! I’m so confused:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCuKNIRiFvY
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Georgii Alexandrov, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russian Federation
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DAMN RUSSIANS AGAIN!
And what about the fossil flatulence problem? There have been dinosaur farts floating around up there for hundreds of millions of years!
I propose we issue Bic lighters to our elected representatives and make them follow cows around and light their farts when they occur. Kamila Harris and Diane Feinstein will finally serve a useful purpose.
The entire Global Warming cult has been nothing but a scam to defraud from the beginning.
Imo, everyone, science, political, media or education that’s bent the knee to the scam in any way or form, should be prosecuted for conspiracy to defraud.
oceans of buffalo.... oceans of methane., sounds like a lot of BS either way.
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