Why Cows Are the 800 Lb. Gorillas of Climate Change

[mike]

You want anger! I'll give you anger! Every fart-lighter knows you have to take off your pants before you blaze your farts up!

Goodness gracious great balls of fire...................

 

[mike]

We would be a sad lot if we managed to turn the subject of bovine flatulence into an acrimonious debate wouldn't we?

 

[Wade]

Run Away !!!!!

 

[ALPHA ROMEO UNIFORM]

Well love those beef steaks man espeically chilli, mushrooms and a beer. We all going to die Chris

 

[Wade]

Oh Boy, I need to laugh.
One of our presidential candidate has died today on a airplane crash. We all feel bad. The probability was that he would not win, but he was our only source of fresh ideas. The other 2 candidates represent the last 20 years of politics, and both parties are tarnished by corruption.

Are you also referring to the previous government of Lula da Silva, I remember he was quite popular with a lot of the citizenry. Could you say he was a populist president a lá Hugo Chavez and played to tbe lower class at the expense of business and commerce?

 

[DissectionStalker]

Folks, the real problem is at the bottom of the ocean and the permafrost tundra. Once methane starts releasing in enough numbers from the bottom of the ocean, then we could be in for real global climate change. We need to be monitoring the ocean currents and water temperature changes that might change those current flows and unlock the billions/trillions of tons of trapped methane on the sea floors.

Also, if enough permafrost tundra is exposed [turning dark increasing its temperature] it might melt off enough of the snow and get a snowball effect. There is a lot of methane stored in the permafrost too, so we don't want that all being released either.

Cow fart backpacks are cute, but KING KONG oceans farting billions of tons of methane is a real game changer to alter climate and change ocean currents. Any ocean weather scientists on-board with ET here?

 

[Wade]

Now there's an 800 lb. Gorilla, the Arctic region. There is a number of powerful interests than would love nothing more than unfettered all season access to the Arctic regions; shipping companies, oil companies, natural gas companies, mining concerns. There's a lot of commerce at steak. ( Cows...Steak..get it ? ) It's not in their interest to stop cow flatulence or airline travel or even rush hour(s) when the accumulative effect may be getting those shipping lanes a little more open.

 

[SRL+]

[Here's one possible solution —chris]

Argentina Scientists Are Now Attaching Backpacks To Collect Cow Farts

... & three years after the posting above, bovine flatulence persists in plaguing the planet.

Methane from livestock underestimated

 

[Randall]

Everyone's going to hate me over this but: The environmental footprint of your pet is bigger than you think

To top it off, at least cows provide food while pets just consume and cost and add around 64 million tons of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere every year. Want to get even madder at me? Go to the Stop The Hunger site at :

Stop the Hunger - world hunger statistics updated in real time

See how many people are dying of hunger, and then look at how much people are spending on pet food at the same time. Is there any real way to justify feeding a pet before feeding starving people?

As I wrote this approximately 1.7 million was spend on pet food, while about 1100 people died of starvation.