Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 03/04/2009 6:59:22 PM PST by Gordon Greene
Aquatic animals that feed on lake and stream bottom sediments burp out small amounts of nitrous oxide, a potent greenhouse gas, a new study finds.
While the biological emissions from these critters pales in comparison to the nitrous oxide emitted by fossil fuel burning, their contribution could increase as more and more nitrogen-rich fertilizer runs off into lakes, streams and seas, the authors of the study said.
Nitrous oxide (N2O) is more commonly known to anyone who has sat in the dentist's chair as laughing gas.
In the atmosphere it is a powerful greenhouse gas, packing about 310 times the punch as the same weight of carbon dioxide (though carbon dioxide is still the bigger driver because there is much more of it).
Studies of soil-dwelling earthworms had showed that the creepy crawlies emitted nitrous oxide because of the nitrogen-converting microbes they gobbled up into their guts with every mouthful of soil.
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‘Splain, please?
Thanks.
Nuttin, Honey.
I’ve heard Gore called a lot of things, but a burping worm is pretty descriptive.
Bush’s fault.
Wanna walnetto...
No thanks. I just got done with dinner.
Dude, don’t bogart the worm.
So if global warming is real we will know it because at some point we won’t be able to stop laughing?
First it was flatulent cows and now it’s earthworms. We’re doomed, I tell you. Doomed.
What about the 'roach'? (I wonder if roaches fart?)
So it’s Global Worming.....
I’ll share, and we can both *sniff* the worm and laugh hysterically.
I know after the first 40 days of Obama, I desperately need to laugh.
"We are all worms, but I do believe I am a glowworm."
—Winston Churchill
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glowworm
Nitrous ping!
My son brought up “cow farts” as a source of global warming. I brought up that Obama will be having the farmers do the cap and trade buying carbon credits, etc. Siad - it is really just a tax on cow farts!
My wife was laughing too. Until I said “No. Really. They will be taxing farmers for the number of cows (that are farting) that they have.
My wife’s jaw just hung open.
My 11-year old daughter said “I know what I would do - seel all my cows. Except for maybe one”.
I said “Exactly - that is called “Atlas Shrugged”. (Huh Dad??)
Ok, thats it. We must kill all life on earth other than non-carnivorous plants.
Damn, just outta hand.
CO2 is absolutely essential to LIFE, with out it, the WHOLE food chain collapses! Its utterly necessary for life on earth, in fact, the more CO2, the more LIFE in general.
I am so SICK of enviro weenies.
Now I feel stupid... I’ve seen you post this a couple of times before but this is the first time I noticed what the flames were for on the opposing ends.
Fu-nny...
GG
I posted it larger this time to clarify. The idiot is so full of gas he spews at both ends.
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