Posted on 11/29/2009 6:19:12 AM PST by TigerLikesRooster
November 29, 2009
Australia's answer to global warming - breed a burp free sheep
Anne Barrowclough in Sydney
The Australian Government's plans to enact a law for an emissions trading scheme are in chaos and the opposition Liberal party is in meltdown over the climate change legislation. But Australian scientists have their own cunning plan to stop global warming - breed a sheep that doesn't burp.
Farting cows and sheep have been blamed for most of the methane emissions that have helped take Australia to the top of the world's carbon footprint league table. Around 12 per cent of the country's total greenhouse gas emissions originate with agriculture, and 70 per cent of that amount is made up of methane, which has 17 times the environmental warming capacity of carbon dioxide.
But scientists now say the wrong end of the animal has been blamed for the methane outpourings.
"90 per cent of the methane that sheep and cattle and goats produce comes from the rumen, and that's burped out," said John Goopy from the New South Wales Department of Industry and Investment who is leading the study into burping sheep.
"There's not very much passed out the animal's anus at all," he said.
(Excerpt) Read more at timesonline.co.uk ...
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Down came Superstition's walls,
When Galileo dropped his balls,
And up those walls arose once more,
When Reason fell and played the whore.
This insanity would end in a minute except for the whoredom of university scientists. Greedy quacks.
I thought the enviro objective was to bring us into a pre-industrial society. Now it seems they want to bring us into a pre-agricultural society
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