Posted on 09/29/2017 2:59:25 PM PDT by upchuck
A new NASA-sponsored study shows that global methane emissions produced by livestock are 11 percent higher than estimates made last decade. Because methane is a particularly nasty greenhouse gas, the new finding means it’s going to be even tougher to combat climate change than we realized.
We’ve known for quite some time that greenhouse gases produced by cattle, sheep, and pigs are a significant contributor to global warming, but the new research, published in Carbon Balance and Management, shows it’s worse than we thought. Revised figures of methane produced by livestock in 2011 were 11 percent higher than estimates made in 2006 by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)—a now out-of-date estimate.
It’s hard to believe that belches, farts, and poop from livestock could have any kind of global atmospheric effect, but it’s an issue of scale, and the nature of methane itself.
There are approximately 1.5 billion cows on the planet, each and every one of them expelling upwards of 30 to 50 gallons of methane each day. We typically think of farts as being the culprit, but belches are actually the primary source of cattle-produced methane, accounting for 95 percent of the problematic greenhouse gas.
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Horse Feathers!!! These folks would probably still tell us that the Earth is flat with a straight face and 97 “respected scientists” to back them up. Algore perpetrated one of the most massive frauds in history.
>>Once upon a time there were millions of buffalo wandering the west, lots of methane there.<<
That is where you are WRONG! Before the white man came along, the buffalo only farted benign water vapor that smelled like fresh cut grass or, in the autumn, pumpkin spice.
Man, get with the sciencey stuff!!!
And there are lots and lots of cows now, unfortunately (although I do eat eggs) including dairy nearly 100 million in the US, approximately 5 x the population of bison in the 1800’s.
Well that sucks. I was planning on riding my cow after California bans gas powered cars in 2040.
Thank G-D we had the foresight to slaughter the vast herds of buffalo that roamed the American Continent, and those passenger pigeons which flocks were so huge they blocked the precious sunlight when they flew over.
Hats off to those black African poachers who are single handedly eliminating the last of the African elephant and rhinoceroses. Every one does there bit these days to keep internal gases internal lest they escape and kill us all in our sleep,
Since the cow fart “experts” were grossly wrong the first time, why should we believe anything they say?
If enough people vote that pi is 3.15, then that is what pi is.
See how that works? Consensus science.
The bison population was about 60 million in the early 1870s due to favorable weather for the previous ten years. Brucellos and possibly another virus killed them off not buffalo hunters. There were no where near the number of buffalo hunters needed to koll off that many.
Pure unadulterated crap.
That's because their main component is methane gas, CH4, with an atomic weight of 16; most of it rises into outer space. By contrast, water vapor, H2O with an atomic weight of 18, also rises thousands of feet, but the earth was exquisitely designed by God to be just massive enough to retain our needed water but not quite massive enough to retain our unneeded methane. He's like that.
Should be brucellosis. Most of the remaining herds still have brucellosis. Possibly 9 of 11 pure buffalo herds have the virus.
We?
Not me. Nope. Never. Not EVER.
There’s a 97% Consensus.
I think there used to be millions of bison roaming the plains. Not so much now.
Prelude to meat taxes.
Mark my words.
Bill Nye has more noxious gas than Mongo.
It was the third week in a row he had the AGW whackos on.
He was upset because he first had a climate historian on that pointed out all cooling periods within the alleged constant GW era.
60 million buffalo is the best estimate. The bison were plentiful in 1873 when the hunting started ( you just parked your tent on the plains and waited for them to come to you) but after the catastrophic winter of 1876 you had to go looking for them as the population was much reduced by the viruses they had as well as that awful winter which also nearly destroyed the cowherds of the west.
The average team could process about 20 buffalo per day. The few large teams could do 125, but they were few and far between.
Most teams did not make money and disbanded after the short hunting season and did not reform the next year.
But the bottom line was that most of the buffalo disappeared over three or so years.
anyone ever been around a vegan who eats a lot of fruit? their farts are more foul than cows.
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