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Cows Worse Than Cars for Climate Change, Environmentalists Admit(?)
breitbart.com ^ | 7/18/2016 | Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D.

Posted on 07/19/2016 7:52:59 AM PDT by rktman

In a surprising turn of events, climate change doomsayers have turned their attention to cattle, as environmentalists have been compelled to acknowledge that “livestock emissions” are more dangerous for the environment than automobiles.

A recent article at EcoWatch says that greenhouse gas emissions from livestock actually account for a higher percentage of total global emissions than the world’s 1.2 billion automobiles.

Whereas the transportation sector accounts for only some 14 percent of global emissions, cows produce a remarkable 14.5 to 18 percent of the global total, the article confesses.

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Philosophy; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: airquality; ecowackos; envirowhackos; gangrn
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To: rktman

If cattle are bad for the environment, what about bison? When Lewis and Clark explored the Great plains, they saw herds of bison that covered the land from horizon to horizon. Was Global warming any worse in the time of Jefferson than it is now?


41 posted on 07/19/2016 9:08:33 AM PDT by jmcenanly ("The more corrupt the state, the more laws." Tacitus, Publius Cornelius)
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To: jmcenanly
It ain't like L and C were driving SUVs on their journey so, no, warming wasn't worse. 😊
42 posted on 07/19/2016 9:13:03 AM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
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To: rktman

Land grab.


43 posted on 07/19/2016 9:15:21 AM PDT by lastchance (Credo.)
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To: DoughtyOne
"Can those freaks get a life?"

Apparently not. Can't tell you how much I am so dismayed about the science community. At 66, I've seen so many of their predictions of catastrophe be negated by reality. Remember back: New Ice Age; Population Bomb; Nature vs Nurture; etc...

Now it's Global Warming but recently changed to Global Climate Change to fit their computer generated hypothesis. Garbage in - garbage out. Oops, I plagarized some one.

44 posted on 07/19/2016 9:20:51 AM PDT by A Navy Vet (An Oath is Forever)
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To: jdege

Common Sense and Logic is eliminated from the human minds with irrational Marxism and Atheism: RELIGIONS.

After brainwashing for 12 years, the ability “to think coherently” is destroyed completely-—even after 4 years as Lenin stated.

Right Reason according to Natural Law Theory (Logic/Science/God’s Design/Common Sense/Christian Worldview) is BANNED from schools since the 60s in America. Sooner in Europe.

They are creating a NWO where Up is Down, Slavery is Freedom, Vice is Virtue, the words “mother and father”, “wife and husband” are extinct-—as is male/female paradigm (Christianity/Natural Law).

Limit Words and you deliberately limit concepts in children. Ban traditions in children and you erase history and concepts of past/future and their identity (create interchangeable drones with no Self-Esteem or integrity; you literally erase identity and connections to past and future).

Why? Fichte, in 1810, stated that “Free Will” (choice) had to be destroyed in little children (Prussian skools) for the NWO so that children will remain totally irrational (no integration of the brain) where their “belief” will be “unshakable” (totally brainwashed) so they would actually believe “Snow is Black” and Vice is Virtue and Boys are Girls. It is for collapse of Western Civilization for dumb, tribal minds, so the masses can be controlled completely by a few globalists/elites/CEOs. They control all your ideas, information which will determine your “beliefs”-—and so they fill you will Lies and misinformation (emotions ONLY to control intellect). That is why the RACE for complete control of the internet. (All “trending” topics, lol).

Without Reason/Common Sense and Truth, we remain godless animals to be herded and culled by the Marxists ( and we would be “happy” in our slavery).

People-—your children are being BRAINWASHED, if they are in the public schools or watch MSM. It is ALL lies and artificial Reality to destroy Common Sense (Reason). Have children READ the Great Books, unplug themselves and PLAY with other children, and have HUMAN, REAL LIFE experiences with mother and father and siblings. Learn to control their base instincts and embed VIRTUE (inner control of REAL emotions-—not programmed irrational, artificial emotions). Dehumanization is the goal of Leftists—isolation which will create mental illness/programmed pill-popping “bots”).

Socrates stated that if the State controlled “education”, they would never educate, just indoctrinate into being slaves for the State. Wake Up-—children EASILY embed IRRATIONAL EMOTIONS tied to concepts. Parents, Reality (real life human interactions which embed mother/father paradigm (Natural Law) ) should control their worldview ONLY for Common Sense (Logic/Reason). Ever WONDER why Daniel Boone and Davy Crockett were so SMART and never went to skools-—How about Teddy Roosevelt and Thomas Jefferson—both tutored (individualism)-—not in group think factories of one age-—to isolate from Reality so brainwashing could be EASY.

Amish knew exactly what they were doing. The insanity being preached from the State is the religion of Atheism/Marxism/totalitarianism/Slavery/Islam/paganism-—take your pick. There is only ONE religion in line with Natural Law (Reason/Logic/God’s Design) and it is embedded in the US Constitution and our “Justice” (virtue) System-—yet it is the ONLY worldview being ACTIVELY BANNED from schools and the public square——go figure-—and we say we are “Free” and have “Free Press” etc....Fichte’s Joke is on us. Even SCOTUS has been BANNING the Chrisitan Worldview forever...it is unconstitutional and “null and void”. Treason for the Marxists on the court—they should be impeached if it is a true “Justice” system.


45 posted on 07/19/2016 9:23:07 AM PDT by savagesusie (When Law ceases to be Just, it ceases to be Law. (Thomas A./Founders/John Marshall)/Nuremberg)
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To: BitWielder1

Does this mean they are going to want to ban cows now? /sarc


46 posted on 07/19/2016 9:23:16 AM PDT by Jean2 (ox)
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To: Boogieman; jdege
Sure, it is a closed loop system, which can also be called a self correcting system. If there is an increase in respiration(too many cows) there will be a corresponding increase in photosynthesis(more trees). It self corrects.

But the actual problem is that all the carbon(that we call fossil fuel) that was sequestered during the carboniferous period has been dug up or pumped from the ground and burned for energy. Over a relatively short period of time.

This significant increase has obviously increased photosynthesis, but the amount of CO2 being emitted has overwhelmed photosynthesis so CO2 concentrations in the two atmospheres(gaseous and aqueous) continue to rise.

In that sense, the closed loop system has become open loop. And self correcting has become self perpetuating.

47 posted on 07/19/2016 9:26:45 AM PDT by Ben Ficklin
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To: BitWielder1
No word on CO2 or Methane emissions from millions of acres of their beloved protected wetlands.

This is true. Anyone that has ever been to a swamp and smelled that smell would tell you, it isn't exactly a spring fresh aroma you would want in your car or house.

48 posted on 07/19/2016 9:28:23 AM PDT by Tenacious 1 (You couldn't pay me enough to be famous for being stupid!)
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To: Boogieman
"...before scientists stopped doing science and started doing politics."

I tried for longest time to not indulge the conspiracy types. Now I believe many of the science community are more about their grants than finding the truth. See my post above about their failed predictions.

49 posted on 07/19/2016 9:29:47 AM PDT by A Navy Vet (An Oath is Forever)
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To: jdege

Your post is the most valuable lesson from this thread. And it goes for burning wood for heat as well. The Carbon cycle used to be taught in school (photosynthesis was the hard part to understand.) But car emissions are actually not part of the closed cycle. The reason that livestock are being looked at now is that car emissions are relatively under control and the regulators need to move on.

No, the regulators need to find another line of work.


50 posted on 07/19/2016 9:31:15 AM PDT by KC_for_Freedom (California engineer (ret) and ex-teacher (ret) now part time Professor (what do you know?))
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To: A Navy Vet

Yes, you’re right on target there.

And stop plagiarizing people. Ha!

Someone has at some prior time said everything any of us are going to say.


51 posted on 07/19/2016 9:32:00 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (He wins & we do, our nation does, the world does. It's morning in America again. You are living it!)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

“When they come after my bacon...well...I can’t be held responsible for my actions if it gets to THAT point! ;)”

So you will defend your “illegal bacon” with your “illegal 30 rd mag?”


52 posted on 07/19/2016 9:34:18 AM PDT by vette6387
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To: KC_for_Freedom

“But car emissions are actually not part of the closed cycle.”

They certainly are part of the cycle, although not a natural part obviously.

The CO2 from auto emissions comes from hydrocarbons in petroleum, and those hydrocarbons were trapped from the atmosphere by plant life. When we burn the petroleum, the carbon goes back to the atmosphere.

It make take many years for that cycle to close, but it’s still a cycle.


53 posted on 07/19/2016 9:45:30 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: Sacajaweau
"Just read that there were Millions of buffalo...yes millions...."

OMG. How did the native americans survive that? Think of the inhumanity of all those buffalo farts and the men, women, and children dropping dead from the gases.

Question: I've been watching a series about Jesse James, Billy the Kid, and Wyatt Earp produced by the socialist Robert Redford. Since you will ask, I am just curious to see his bent on what I have read of those days. It claims that President Grant put a bounty on buffalo to starve the Indians out of the Dakota territory to access the gold fields to bring the Union out of a depression. Is that true?

54 posted on 07/19/2016 9:47:09 AM PDT by A Navy Vet (An Oath is Forever)
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To: Iron Munro

Is that clip real? Now we have tubes and gas bags attached to cows?


55 posted on 07/19/2016 9:50:06 AM PDT by A Navy Vet (An Oath is Forever)
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To: rktman

Does no one remember how Ronald Reagan was pilloried for saying exactly what they are now claiming. Senile old fool was making an @ss out of himself suggesting that cows were producing more pollution than cars.


56 posted on 07/19/2016 9:55:10 AM PDT by itsahoot (Trump kills PC--Hillary kills USA--Pick one.)
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To: Ben Ficklin

“This significant increase has obviously increased photosynthesis, but the amount of CO2 being emitted has overwhelmed photosynthesis so CO2 concentrations in the two atmospheres(gaseous and aqueous) continue to rise.

In that sense, the closed loop system has become open loop. And self correcting has become self perpetuating.”

Well, it’s a good thing that the planet relies on more than just photosynthesis to balance the system. Photosynthesis is just one short term corrective factor, the absorption of carbon into the oceans and earth’s crust are also corrective factors that respond to feedback from the cycle, so I don’t think we have much to worry about.


57 posted on 07/19/2016 9:56:20 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: DoughtyOne
"And stop plagiarizing people."

My bad. Oops, didn't someone say that once?

BTW, as age creeps up on me, I think we once met but can't remember where or when. Was it at BobJ's house or a FReeper event? Feel free to FReepmail if you'd rather keep it private.

58 posted on 07/19/2016 10:03:27 AM PDT by A Navy Vet (An Oath is Forever)
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To: A Navy Vet
I'm afraid we've become "prejudiced" over time and the Indians can do no wrong. And historical novels like Jesse etc are full of maybe, maybe nots.

You have to go back and read actual documents. I believe the most honest takes can be found in government documents on line...at the Library of Congress. When a modern author on such subjects writes a book...he actually starts with the last line of the book....and includes his prejudices.

Try the library of Congress. It's very user friendly.

59 posted on 07/19/2016 10:07:11 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: Jean2
Does this mean they are going to want to ban cows now? /sarc

They already tried doing that. And no /sarc either.

60 posted on 07/19/2016 10:33:22 AM PDT by BitWielder1 (I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
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