Posted on 05/18/2007 9:44:01 AM PDT by Zakeet
The other day we were once again warned about that dire danger to our existence - cow flatulence. It just so turns out that the gaseous emissions of the bovine digestive tract account for more greenhouse gasses than all the SUVs, airplanes, trucks and cars combined. In other words, as far as global warming is concerned cows pose a greater threat to our survival than transport. And this according to the UN no less.
All those worried about the future of our planet should be asked whether they really believe that cow flatulence can lead to an atmospheric meltdown.
If you are even remotely tempted to answer in the affirmative you have a serious problem. And don't think that citing Al Gore will get you off the hook; hiding behind the foolhardiness of others is a poor way of concealing your own. The truth is that Al Gore is an unbalanced man which should be obvious to everyone with the eyes to see. That he still enjoys any credibility is evidence of just how confused we have become.
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Those who argue that liberal confusion is due to stupidity are flat out wrong. Hilary Clinton, Al Gore, John Edwards and many of their ritzy friends consistently display uncommon ingenuity and cunning in the management of their worldly affairs. Rather than lacking in brainpower, these people suffer from something worse. They have been stricken with that moral madness that so frequently grips those who turn against God. It is a madness whose roots are ultimately spiritual and one that is all the more insidious for the fact that it hides behind a façade of apparent normalcy.
It is an observable fact that the more virulently anti-God people are, the madder they as a rule become.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
This article is an outstanding read on the false religion that is liberalism.
The whole state of Wisconsin should be ashamed of itself.
/sarc
The Europeans that killed off the bison were environmental heroes!
More Beeno for Cows, NOW!!!!!
/sarc.
Now Wait Just a Minute! I thought CO2 was the cause of global warming! Are they now saying farts are the cause of global warming, methane?
If that’s the case, spare the cows- leftwing moonbats, envirowienies should do the right thing and jump off tall buildings, clifs, bridges etc.- save the world!
If they really are serious about these stupid claims, they have the power to save the world by removing themselves from it.
So the answer to global wasrming is more BBQ?
As you might expect from liberals, they don’t know from which end of the cow the gas comes out.
Well, if liberals spent more time on farms and less time in homosexual bars. . . no, that wouldn’t work - we have to protect the cows in this situation. Maybe we should just send them a short subject movie about cows that they can show at their political meetings. That’s the ticket!!
Abandoning God can lead to cultural madness. Using Stalin as an example is apt, and when you throw in Pol Pot and Mao it becomes more clear (Hitler I’m not sure of, didn’t he profess a belief in God?)
Abandoning some sort of moral anchor, some reference point, some standard sets one person adrift. Millions doing the same thign sets the society adrift.
Good article, even if it starts with cows.
(Go back 3 billion years- who would have thought that little plants could reshape an entire planet and cause a catastrophic collapse of a global ecology?)
Then we can take the cows' place in this story.
Let’s not forget about the greenhouse gases.
SHUT DOWN THE GREENHOUSES!!! Eat more cows to cut down on their farting.
You’ve touched on the beauty of the scheme: There are many “greenhouse gasses”, of which CO2 and methane are two. Having a huge rug like this to sweep things under means virtually any movement of molecules may possibly fall under the control of liberals, for the purpose of saving us all from Global Warming.
You said fart!
“...they have the power to save the world by removing themselves from it.”
They’d rather remove you and me from it.
I wonder how much we could help the war on global warming by killing off the Alaskan Caribou. Then we drill.
Time to kill all the cows, just like they did in the movie Hud.
Remember Bill Cosby’s album bit about Hud? Cows talking: “Why they gonna kill us?”
“See that foam ‘round yer mouth? That’s why”
“Anything I can do?”
Yeah...wipe that foam from aroun’ yer mouth.”
No he didn't. That's just a marxist/liberal, anti-God rumor they spread in hopes of making Hitler into an evil Christian. Hitler hated the church, which is why he looted and razed over 880 of them to the ground, and send thousands of priests to die in labor camps. The same goes for the B.S. that Pope Pius collaborated with Hitler. Nothing could be further from the truth. Pope Pius used the church to save hundreds of thousands of Jews through it's system of underground railroads, often resulting in the death of those running it. It's shameful that there are Church haters today that try tell a different story and slander the good Pope.
A scheme is what it is. None of the so called “alternative fuels” reduce carbon dioxide. Burning any of them produce the same amount of co2 as does so called “fossil fuels”. It’s just that fossil fuels produce other particulates, which aren’t very high on the ‘greenhouse gas” list.
Did you know that the little BMW car thing, (half a car, or go-cart) with that little 3 cylinder diesel engine pollutes more than a v8 humvie? For every gallon of diesel burned, that filthy little engine spews out 3 times more particulates than the v8 does burning the same gallon.
The cost/damage done to the enviroment building a Prius is three times that of a humvie over it’s entire 300,000 mile lifetime.
The global warming stuff is a hoax, just as the so called alternative fuel solutions are.
I can’t wait to see what the lead-acid battery disposal systems are going to be like once the greenies get everybody driving all-electric cars.
The lead acid batteries will be nothing compared to the nickle- ferrite batteries used in electric cars. Those things are far more toxic. Just wait until one of those batteries catches fire in a car accident. Currently, there is no fire department equiped to put out that toxic fire.
I wonder if they will evacuate neighborhoods every time one of those prius’s bursts into flame....
Weapons of Ass Destruction
I heard some lady had to pay something like $2K to clean up the toxic spill she created when she dropped and broke one of those screw-in flourescent light bulbs. Mercury vapor and phosphorous?
Maybe we can get all those enviro wienies to stand behind cows under a plastic cape to breathe in those cow farts, thereby using their bodies to convert those gases into less harmfull solid waste.
That’s a good solution I think. lets start rounding up lib’s/democrat marxists (don’t forget that David Suzuki nut) and teathering them to cow butts...
Wow! I did it! I went back 3 billion years. What a trip!
Then, just for the health of it, I went forward again 3 billion years to here.
Great fun! Thanks for the tip.
That “Lady” (dingbat) did pay a cleanup crew 2k. For no good reason mind you. That’s just how retarded some people are.
The mercury in a compact florescent light bulb is about the same as you find in the dirt all around you. If you are afraid of it, then you’d better stay indoors and live in a bubble, because Mercury is everywhere.
Just so you know, the Mercury in a florescent light is in the starting mechanism, about as much as you can fit on a tip of a pin. The heater in the starter vaporizes it when you turn it on,it then reacts with the florite in the tube.
If it was dangerous, every building in every country is a hazardous waste site, because those things get broken all the time.
I don't recall any businesses that have scientific research and development departments creating wars and genocide. Nor do I recall any businesses starting wars, crusades or genocide. Obviously, to virtually everyone, the same can't be said about religion and government.
By far, the gulf that separates them is science and business achieve control by free-market competition where each person has the freedom to chose. Whereas politics and church obtain control by initiating force, thereat of force and fraud.
Which has brought the most benefits to individuals and civilization, business/science or religion/government. And, which has brought more death and destruction of values to individual and civilization?
Therein lies the "moral anchor". Moral absolute: do not initiate force, threat of force or fraud against any person or their property. Force used in self-defense against the initiation of force is moral and ethical.
No person, law or government can make persons moral. It is an individual choice. Communism proved that by eliminating free-market competition. As does socialism and fascism to lesser extent. Tyranny-of-the-majority democracy pales in comparison to a representative constitutional republic in terms of individual freedom. Freedom to chose.
Politics and religion is not the solution for they are tolerant of initiation of force, threat of force and fraud. Not to mention intolerant of many other things. They're the problem. It's where the most irrationality resides and emanates. Science and business is the solution. And is where the most rationality resides and emanates.
Follow the logic.
UN claims that cattle account for more greenhouse gas than automobiles.
The world population of cattle is around 1.3 million.
Prior to the entry of evil white men, the population of bison is estimated to have been between 60-100 million.
Therefore, prior to technology (cars), bison were giving off 30 times the combined levels of greenhouse gases being emitted both cars and cattle today.
Hmmm.....
Anyone else see a hole in this logic?
Whew! I just went back 3 billion years too! It is a trip!
But, there was nothing there,- no earth, no sun, no universe, no stars.....
On the way back, I passed the “earth was a flaming hot ball of something” theory... But I didn’t stop for obvious reasons...
A little further on the timeline, I saw a bunch out outer space rain clouds forming, heading towards earth....
Of course, my time machine clock is an old one, set at the 1 billion year old earth theory...
Expect things to change, once everyone is using CFL bulbs & has no choice to revert to incandescents.
Environmentalists will point to the billions of bulbs discarded each year, and demand regulations to prevent the tens of thousands of kilograms of mercury from being discarded willy nilly. We’ll wind up paying to dispose of CFL bulbs at hazardous waste facilities — where the mercury will be meticulously reclaimed. Heavy fines will be imposed on anyone who just tosses a dead bulb in the garbage.
Most of the worlds wars are started by athiests. Always have been. Aside from (Islam of course) Christianity has been for the most part a stablizing force. In fact if it wasn't for the unifying effect Christianity had on Europe, it probably would never have been stable long enough to develop. In the whole big picture of history, (except for revisionist history) and while Christianity has been abused by some, it isn't responsible for many wars (other than defensive), other than being caught up in it, or Christians being the target of those trying to destroy it.
I can prolly dig a small hole in my yard and expose more natural mercury than you find in a CF bulb.
True, combine them all in one spot and you may have a problem, but I don’t consider a landfill site to be a safe zone that I want to live around, and that’s were most will end up.
If you want to start adding up all the “dangerous” stuff we make, you’ll turn into a envirowienie. In otherwords, don’t worry about it. You PC equipment for example, is a thousand times more “dangerous” than a case of CF bulbs. The oil leaking out of your car causes cancer, etc etc. heaven forbid if a you spill a drop of gas into the lake filing up your trolling motor.
Sorry, but I can’t knock CF bulbs, they save a lot of power, and if you are prone to leaving lights on all the time, they save a lot of money too. If you are really worried about them, don’t smash them when they die, just throw them away nicely, where they will be added to the toxic waste which makes up all landfill sites. The Mercury will slowly turn back into it’s natural oxide form, just like nuclear waste buried deep enough will turn back into it’s origional form over time.
"The Liberal Mind: The Psychological Causes of Political Madness" by Lyle H. Rossiter, Jr., M.D.
www.libertymind.com
And, yes, Mr. Savage, they really are sick.
And you’ll just freak out when you discover that ‘evil oil’ bubbles out of cracks in the ocean floor, or in the woods up northalong the canadian shield. How do you think the oil sands were discovered? Someone in a canoe stepped in it.
Wow! that would be the ultimate “carbon credit” wouldn’t it?
Hope the Goracle and Silky Pony sign on for one soon.
BTW, I was an early adapter & agree that CFL bulbs have a lot of uses. No doubt, they save a lot of power in a hot climate -- especially where air conditioning is needed. However, except for my porch light, they don’t save me very much power. When it's dark here, it's usually also cold. Incandescent bulbs are efficient heaters — switching to CFL bulbs simply means that my electric baseboard heaters are on more. I don't need or have air conditioning.
Libidiot global alarmists are, indeed, serious about these stupid claims. If you live anywhere near a liberal university (choose any university - chances are it qualifies) you’ll see fools galore who believe that saving the planet means killing and starving people, ending the EEEEvil oil companies, and banning conservative thinkers and voters.
They didn’t just step in it — they used it to waterproof their canoes.
If you looked through my postings archive, you'd see that I don't have any issues with the oil business. On threads discussing the oil sands, I’ve pointed out that the extraction methods are the same as those used to clean up contaminated sites. If the goo weren’t there naturally, it would be considered contamination, and the government would require it to be extracted.
***Now Wait Just a Minute! I thought CO2 was the cause of global warming! Are they now saying farts are the cause of global warming, methane?***
Poor freon. Left out of the mix.
The biggest problem I have had is with Earth’s motion.
I originally went back six months (checking out the system, Wells was sketchy on construction detail and I thought a few short hops would be a good idea) and found myself hanging in space, a star nearby. I returned quickly.
Later I realized that Earth had moved to the other side of the sun in six months! Wells didn’t say how he corrected for this but I now manually correct for XYZ.
I did learn that the Morlocks and Eloi are among us now, we just don’t recognize things yet.
oops. forgot to add the formating stuff. Oh well.
I lived in the far north (Canada) for decades — and cut, stacked and burned about 10 cords of wood a year. (The only fuel that warms you up three times.) Firewood was free for the taking, and electricity cost double what it does here — so I did pretty much exactly what you’re doing, for the same reasons (you get extra points for going off grid).
I’ll look at the site you recommended — I used to be very interested in all of that; but it’s hard to do much about it, now that I’m living on a small lot in a city.
That’s unfortunate. I’d rather die than move into the city.
Even so, you’d be suprized at what you can do even on a city lot. A smaller 400 watt machine can provide most if not all your energy usage for your home office space, tv and PC.
If anything, it’s fun as well.
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