Posted on 04/12/2014 4:51:08 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Correction
April 12, 2014
An earlier version of this story said that the methane emissions associated with livestock come from their farts. In fact, most of those methane emissions come from belches.
Sorry to ruin your appetite, but it's time to talk about cow belches.
Humans the world over are eating meat and drinking milk — some of us a little less, some of us a lot more, than years past. Farmers are bringing more and more cows into the world to meet demand, and with them escapes more methane into the atmosphere.
In 2011, methane from livestock accounted for 39 percent of all the greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture, according to a report that United Nation's Food and Agriculture Organization released Friday. That's more than synthetic fertilizer or deforestation. Methane from livestock rose 11 percent between 2001 and 2011.
Those emissions, combined with emissions from all the other sectors of food production, aren't likely to go down anytime soon. Greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture, forestry and fishing have doubled over the past 50 years, according to the report. Emissions could go up by 30 percent by 2050.
(Excerpt) Read more at npr.org ...
What about people gas? I am certain Moochelle emits some after her many vacations.
Did the dinosaurs fart? Are the alarmists claiming that was the cause of temperatures on earth back then?
“Moo...BRAAAAAAAAP...Mooo.”
Does Al Gore belch?
This NPR person is intellectually challenged...definitely from the LEFT side of the Bell Curve.
Unless the plant material is frozen or buried deeply it is all going to be metabolized into methane either by the cows or by bacteria.
Getting rid of all the cows would not change a thing.
“Gassy Cows Are Warming The Planet, And They’re Here To Stay”
Pet Cows All the Rage in Suburbs, Prices Soar
[Little play on the crazy goat market.]
“Did the dinosaurs fart?
by some accounts they farted themselves into extinction ...
So, the BLM was just trying to protect the world
from the Bundy cows?
Didn’t Buffalo once cover the plains by the millions. Weren’t the Serengeti plains loaded with much more animals. That’s a lot of farts.
Apparently the 75 to 100 million bison that used to roam this continent ran on unleaded grass and farted pure oxygen.
Give all dem cowses some probiotics or sumfin.
And/or belches
Well, we’re supposed to ban bossy. So say bye to Bossy the cow.............................
Well played!
Well that settles it! The Southern border needs patrols. No letting any more gassy beaneating Mexicans in! Think of the methane costs!
No, he farts out his mouth.
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