Now it's CowGate: expert report says claims of livestock causing global warming are false

Telegraph (UK) ^ | March 25th, 2010 | Gerald Warner

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

It is becoming difficult to keep pace with the speed at which the global warming scam is now unravelling. The latest reversal of scientific “consensus” is on livestock and the meat trade as a major cause of global warming – one-fifth of all greenhouse gas emissions, according to eco-vegetarian cranks. Now a scientific report delivered to the American Chemical Society says it is nonsense. The Washington Times has called it “Cowgate”.

The cow-burp hysteria reached a crescendo in 2006 when a United Nations report ominously entitled “Livestock’s Long Shadow” claimed: “The livestock sector is a major player, responsible for 18 per cent of greenhouse gas emissions measured in CO2e (carbon dioxide equivalents). This is a higher share than transport.” This led to demands in America for a “cow tax” and a campaign in Europe at the time of the Copenhagen car crash last December called Less Meat=Less Heat.

Now a report to the American Chemical Society by Frank Mitloehner, an air quality expert at the University of California at Davis, has denounced such scare-mongering as “scientifically inaccurate”. He reveals that the UN report lumped together digestive emissions from livestock, gases produced by growing animal feed and meat and milk processing, to get the highest possible result, whereas the traffic comparison only covered fossil fuel emissions from cars. The true ratio, he concludes, is just 3 per cent of greenhouse gas emissions in America are attributable to rearing of cattle and pigs, compared with 26 per cent from transport.

Mitloehner also makes the deadly serious point: “Producing less meat and milk will only mean more hunger in poor countries.” Precisely. The demonising of cows and pigs is just another example of global warmists’ callous indifference to starvation ......

[onyx]

LOL. It’s a good one.

[Marine_Uncle]

Your picture of the cow look so similar to what we see Al Gore depicted at climate depot. Is it possible Al Gore is really a cow?

[Oceander]

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

ROFL!

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

I still like that graphical of Al Gore with the laughing Polar Bears on the Weekly Standard cover for the Exposed article on all the followons to climategate.

[Marine_Uncle]

Yes. It was a rather clever pic. Now will those polar bears decide to gobble up this son of a well established commie yet remains to be seen. I have vivid images of how Al used to stare at BJClinton during the State of the Union Addresses.
Beady eyes. Piercing. Gore is a dye in the wool commie. I have no alternative way of evaluating him. A commie that prices greatly the concept of capitalism in order to gain personal wealth yet deny the masses of a similar blessing.

[PhilDragoo]

Per Edward Jay Epstein Dossier: Secret Life of Armand Hammer this patron of the senators Gore father and son was himself son of Julian co-founder of CPUSA upon whose death the job of bagman to Lenin, Stalin, Khruschev, Brezhnev devolved to. . .Armand, which name is actually Gore's middle, per Farah.

Gore-Chernomyrdin. Bush accused Chernomyrdin of being party to money laundering by the billions. Chernomyrdin threatened suit. Bush said bring it. Crickets.

Now Hussein gives the KGB colonel from East Germany a third of our nuclear warheads, having scrapped our missile defense.

The gooks are in the wire. Now back to American Idol.

[Marine_Uncle]

Roger that PD. My initial how should I say education as to how the world has operated on the grand scale after roughly the First World War, onward came from a book titled Non Dare Call It Conspiracy. The book outlined in some detail the likes of Armand Hammer. As you may be aware. He financed the first major dam projects for the Soviets during I believe it was the late 50s.
A dye in the wool socialist with so many connections to the many elements of the Communist Party within the Soviet frame work it would be unwise to claim somehow his ties to the commies was just some coincidence.

[PhilDragoo]

See how NRO compares Paulson to Hammer in Bears a Close Watch: China knows our next Treasury secretary well.

And it was Paulson presiding when Soros fired his torpedo September 18, 2008.

[Marine_Uncle]

Will check out. Thanks.

[Marine_Uncle]

Hammer and Paulson are birds of the same feather.

[potlatch]

It’s a Jungle of Nool– or Fuzzy Dunkel, or something....

[Yaelle]

"Vindication smells sweet!"

[devolve]

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Just a lot of BS!

[potlatch]

I don’t care for certain kinds of graphics.
Just deleted an old gif of Hillary’s head on a cow the other day.

[devolve]

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algore’s head on a steer would be in good taste - and accurate too!

[potlatch]

I’ll fool with that end, but not with the other, heh.

[devolve]

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What?

No animation?

[potlatch]

I don’t like ‘crude’, in words or picts. Just me.

[devolve]

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I know