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 its going to be even tougher to combat climate change than we realized.
Weve 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 its 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in 2011 were 11 percent higher than estimates made in 2006 by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)a now out-of-date estimate.
Its hard to believe that belches, farts, and poop from livestock could have any kind of global atmospheric effect, but its 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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So the buffalo that roamed by the millions didn’t fart?
Ye old....great minds think alike.
LOL, the ridiculousness of it all. They are such huge liars.
Likely a much smaller number than the population of large wild ungulates that existed 200-300 years ago. And termites have always emitted far more methane than all other sources combined. Whatcha gonna do about termites?
To leftists wild buffalo farts are the fragrance of heaven.
“Pull my hoof.”
Odd how a cow, a ruminant, is bad but a buffalo, deer, elk, sheep, goat, llama, alpaca, camel, moose, giraffe, reindeer, caribou, also ruminants but ok.
Wow. That’s a lot of gas!!!
Before I know it, these climate change alarmists will be charging me carbon credits to assuage their guilt for eating that bone-in ribeye at Outback Steakhouse last week (that they didn't admit to to their vegan friends).
See, I must pay for their lifestyle. The whole process is a scam to pick my wallet to pay for the elites' utopia.
Expect to see a bill in Congress to actually do exactly that. Carbon credits billed by a company owned in part by Al Gore.
Didn’t the Bernie supporters have a fart-in at the DNC when Hitlery won the Dem nomination?
The largest UNDERESTIMATION is for the number of illegals living inside USA borders.
They live on burritos, which also make farts.
Why is everything being blamed on the cows???
Are these same Liberals going to give their kids cereal with soda on it? Are they never going to own a leather belt—purse—wallet—shoes???
While the main use of cowhide is to hold the cow together, it has many other uses, also.
Even the bones are ground up & used in gardening.
A study done by the Wyoming Bison Preservers determined that the mean gas content of cattle flatulence is about a third of bison flatulence.
Since there are presently fewer cattle as a percent of the 19th century bison population, there is a methane deficit estimated to be around 137 million tons per year. the deficit is not uniform. As a result Wyoming grass species Fescuonius specularias has seriously declined and replaced by Alfalarious deserta which lacks nutritional content to support bison grazers
Bill Nye is a cow fart.
Funniest post on the thread!!!
and red:
So here is the problem:
Cows tend to congregate.....especially under trees during a thunderstorm
So if there was a lightening strike..the bag of methane would get ignited
so setting off a chain reaction amongst the other methane collecting cow systems
Result...an exploded cow heard...milk and cow body parts spread all over.
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