Posted on 04/30/2007 8:29:12 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
GoRebalism on Parade
Pigs wait to receive food from visitors at a farm near Brussels, January 7, 2007. Across the globe, chickens and pigs are doing their bit to curb global warming. But cows and sheep still have some catching up to do. The farm animals produce lots of methane, a potent greenhouse gas that gets far less public attention than carbon dioxide yet is at the heart of efforts to fight climate change. (Yves Herman/Files/Reuters)
Graphic showing options for reducing emissions of greenhouse gases, ahead of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change summary report for policymakers to be issued next week in Bangkok.(AFP/Graphic)
Its how Auntie powered Bartertown..
Methane concentrations have increased about 150 percent in the air since 1750 and now far exceed the natural range of the past 650,000 years, the U.N.’s climate panel says. And human activities are largely to blame.
The panel will be focusing on ways to curb methane and other greenhouse gas emissions when it releases a major report on mitigating the effects of climate change in Bangkok in early May.
Great place for the IPCC UN panel to choose to have its meeting, Bangkok.. or is it just coincidence?
will someone pay me to fart into a jar then? no? rats.
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US President George W. Bush (C) flanked by German Chancellor Angela Merkel (L), who holds the rotating presidencies of the EU and the Group of Eight (G8), and EU Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso, speaks during a joint press conference in the Rose Garden at the White House Washington, DC. Bush and visiting European leaders agreed Monday to define global warming as a serious problem requiring "urgent" action, but deadlocked on what concrete remedies to apply.(AFP/Saul Loeb)
The city of the Thunderdome in the Mad Max movie years ago was powered by pigs producing methane.
The gas can only be collected if the animals are in confinement. Environmentalists are fighting large confinement operations because of odors etc.
The majority of livestock is raised outside and that will never change. But for those confinement operations, they could produce enough power to run their fans and lights, and potentially sell some excess power. The most efficient use of the power would be locally. Widespread distribution would be limited.
Finally, a truly renewable source of fuel. Instead of curbing cow farts,we can capture that valuable gas for use in running our turbo-electric plants. The gas farmers can attach bladders (or something automatic like a milking machine) to the animals rears collecting it for transportation to major distribution centers. This also has the benefit of being CO2 neutral,since the emissions from burning the gas would equal the amount that would naturally be lost to space anyway. Do I hear carbon credits?
"It's okay. We bought carbon offsets from Al Gore."
Yes, get ready for the FART TAX. Every chicken, every cow, you name it will be taxed. There will be special taxes on food prices at Mexican restaurants....the list goes on with the ScamORats salivating.
why can't President Bush be like the Czechoslovakian leader and say that AGW is recycled communism. For President Bush to even agree to say "Global Warming" is a serious problem is very disheartening. If the eventual Republican nominee says that AGW is a serious problem, then our Liberties will be further threatened. Someone at the national level has to confront this insanity. I have never witnessed such mass brainwashing in my life.
“What worries me is the increased methane coming out of the stomachs of ruminants, mainly for increased beef consumption within an increasingly wealthy world. The diet of the West has a big impact on the atmosphere.”
There’s the money quote. Expect an assault on evil beef consumers destroying the planet. They’re probably already demonizing beef consumption in Kindergarten.
Termites produce more methane than all the other species on the earth combined.
Termites produce more methane than all the other species on earth combined...
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