Posted on 10/16/2017 8:27:06 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Swedish scientists have found that flatulent shellfish are creating vast amounts of greenhouse gases, leading to a predictable slew of comments about farting cockles and clams. But beneath the schoolboy humour, there is a serious point. The two gases in question methane and nitrous oxide are potent agents of climate change, with a warming potential 28 and 265 times greater than carbon dioxide respectively.
Scientists studying the Baltic Sea off the coast of Sweden have found that shellfish are producing one-tenth of all the greenhouses gases released there the equivalent to the amount produced by 20,000 cattle. If the same situation is being replicated around the rest of the worlds seas and oceans, we have a serious problem.
Chief scientist Stafarto Bonaglia, from Stockholm University, is certainly concerned: It sounds funny, but small animals in the seafloor may act like cows in a stable, both groups being important contributors of methane due to the bacteria in their gut.
He also points out that shellfish were releasing these gases long before global warming became an issue, and believes that the recent emissions may have been exacerbated by the enrichment of coastal waters, due to the run-off from agricultural fertilisers.
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
It's for the good of the Earth!
Think maybe it’s the flatulent climate changers that are the problem.
Eat more clams!
eat moar shelfich ...
Scientists discovered recently that methane came from cow burps rather than cow farts. They had been studying the wrong end of the cow. And who could wonder, since the climate hoax people don’t really know their a$$es from their own elbows?
How about all year? Or could it be the dumbest thing youve heard this lifetime?
.....And if the water is bubbling....that’s not carbonation!
Can't make this stuff up!
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Must eat the 20,000 cattle ASAP to offset the clams.
IOW, Man’s contribution to global warming amounts to squat.
The flatulence of cows gained no traction with the public...what he heck...let’s try clams.
This is what happens when you put harvest restrictions on harvesters, they destroy the planet
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