[Libloather]

Do cows and tennis balls boost global warming?

No. How about volcanoes?

[stan the beaver]

So, what are scientists going to do about this? I mean, if cow farts cause global warming. Maybe make a law requiring every cow to wear a ziplock bag surgically attached to its backside, to collect the fart gas?

[writer33]

We're doomed, L. Doomed I tell you!

:)

[NewHampshireDuo]

SF6 is used everywhere, not just in tennis balls and sneakers. It's an electrical insulator, it's integral to many semiconductor processes, etc.

[socal_parrot]

I thought it was getting warmer around here...

[MikefromOhio]

Don't exhale!!!! Exhaling releases CO2 as well!! Can't pollute because the Earth is going to be destroyed by us durned Republicans and W!! /sarcasm off....

[Ditto]

 

  Global Warming Potentials over a 100 Year Time Horizon (CO₂ =1)       

Greenhouse gas	Formula	GWP
carbon dioxide	CO2	1
methane	CH4	21
nitrous oxide	N2O	310
haloflurocarbons
HFC23	CHF3	11,700
HFC32	CH2F2	650
HFC43-10mee	C4H2F10	1,300
HFC125	CH2F5	2,800
HFC134	CHF2CHF2	1,000
HFC134a	CH2FCF3	1,300
HFC152a	C2H4F2	140
HFC143	CHF2CH2F	300
HFC143a	CF3CH3	3,800
HFC227ea	C3HF7	2,900
HFC236fa	C3H2F6	6,300
HFC245ca	C3H3F5	560
chloroform	CHCl3	4
methylene chloride	CHCl2	9
perfluromethane	CF4	6,500
perfluroethane	C2F6	9,200
perflurocyclo-butane	C-C4F8	8,700
perflurohexane	C6F14	7,400
sulphur hexafluoride	SF6	23,900

Home inquiries melb@aie.org.au 

  Source: http://www.aie.org.au/melb/material/resource/GWP.htm

[SandRat]

According to the author's way of thinking brrr rrrrrriiiiiippppppppp! Phew that stinks. I just added to global warming.

Now for another plate of refried beans.

[layman]

I had no idea cows were causing all this trouble. Wait ... I have a great idea ... let's kill the cows and eat them! Oh ... that's right ... we already do that. Oh well ... back to the drawing board.

[The Great RJ]

What happened to the global cooling and nuclear winter disasters that were predicted in the 1970's to spell doom for civilization by the year 2000?

[Conservative Goddess]

Stumbled across this site while I was looking for a link to the recent story that says we may have prevented the next ice age. This is hilarious: http://www.junkscience.com/

[RichInOC]

What happens if you put a tennis ball into a cow's...oh, never mind.

[ThePythonicCow]

Mooo !!

[American in Israel]

One of the gases, sulfur hexafluoride, is estimated to be 23,900 times more powerful at trapping heat in the atmosphere than carbon dioxide...

And there are about 50,000,000,000,000,000,000 times more carbon dioxide than there is sulfer hexafluoride. I am not sure about sulfer hexafluoride, but the gas emitting from these liberals is certainly raising my temp.

[farmfriend]

Rights, farms, environment ping.
Let me know if you wish to be added or removed from this list.
I don't get offended if you want to be removed.

[freepatriot32]

i think we should all print out a copy ofthatstory fro ma couple of months ago that said the biggest polluter in washinton state for last year was mt saint helens it released twice as much pollution as every single industry in the state combined

[GreenHornet]

If cows start playing tennis, we're really in trouble!!!

[Outland]

What the article doesn't tell you is that concentrations of sulfur hexafluoride are about 0.000000000521%, or 5.21 Parts Per Trillion.

Big freaking deal. Another Reuters scare story.

This means that at current levels, the amount of sulfur hexafluoride needs to increase almost 3011 times to equal the GWP of current CO2 levels.. which are only about 385 PPM or 0.0385% of the atmosphere.

If you total up all the major "greenhouse" gases (not including water vapor), you get less than 0.04% of the entire atmosphere.

Hey Reuters... I'm not scared yet. I can do the math.