[rface]

I suspect that somebody had already asked this question about Bison v. Cattle as a source of Greenhouse gasses - but this is my quick and dirty research project.

Maybe I can get a Nobel Prize

[golfisnr1]

I predict fart bags on cows.

[Tenacious 1]

We should harness this source of energy. We already use the material waste in fertilizer. Maybe we should find a way to trap and use cow farts to produce electricity. This should help the environment, right?

[RightWhale]

That is a strangely worded headline.

[Vaquero]

Gathering Buffalo Chips....entertainment for the whole family.

[jjones9853]

I’m eating those darn cows as fast as I can!

[cannonball]

I wonder how much methane is produced by wetlands? (swamp gas) I’ll bet it’s a bunch more than produced by livestock.

[rfp1234]

[Ender Wiggin]

Around the time the bison were being killed off the Northeast was beingdeforested and the cleared land used for sheep farming; rivers were dammed for water power for textile mills. Lots of stone walls in New England, out in the woods now but they were once open fields full of methane producing sheep.

Youre right, there should have been a massive ecological effect from the bison, and later, the sheep and deforestation.

[M. Dodge Thomas]

How come the Bison herds of yesterday had no effect on the Global Climate?

What makes you think they had no effect?

This issue at any given time is the total concentration of GHGs from all sources, the output from (for example) such animals is being being added to that from all other sources.

[himno hero]

its all hot air

the first explorers in America reported seeing OCEANS of buffalo

I dont recall them reporting methane fogs

anyways,its just more hot air conversation

[mission9]

95% of green house gases are water vapor. This is not surprising since the oceans cover 60% of the Earth’s surface. Any change in the other gases, such as methane and carbon dioxide, would be merely window dressing.