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Burping Worms May Contribute to Climate Change
Foxnews.com ^ | Wednesday, March 04, 2009 | Andrea Thompson

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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To: The Spirit Of Allegiance

‘Splain, please?

Thanks.


21 posted on 03/04/2009 7:23:36 PM PST by Gordon Greene (www.fracturedrepublic.com - Welcome to the brave new world...)
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To: tubebender

Nuttin, Honey.


22 posted on 03/04/2009 7:24:16 PM PST by Brad’s Gramma ( PRAY! Pray for the U.S. Pray for Israel.)
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To: Gordon Greene

I’ve heard Gore called a lot of things, but a burping worm is pretty descriptive.


23 posted on 03/04/2009 7:26:03 PM PST by Steamburg ( Your wallet speaks the only language most politicians understand.)
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To: Gordon Greene

Bush’s fault.


24 posted on 03/04/2009 7:26:36 PM PST by tpanther (The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing---Edmund Burke)
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To: Brad's Gramma

Wanna walnetto...


25 posted on 03/04/2009 7:26:53 PM PST by tubebender (99% of Lawyers give the rest a bad name...)
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To: tubebender

No thanks. I just got done with dinner.


26 posted on 03/04/2009 7:27:33 PM PST by Brad’s Gramma ( PRAY! Pray for the U.S. Pray for Israel.)
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To: txnativegop

Dude, don’t bogart the worm.


27 posted on 03/04/2009 7:29:17 PM PST by Yardstick
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To: Gordon Greene

So if global warming is real we will know it because at some point we won’t be able to stop laughing?


28 posted on 03/04/2009 7:29:51 PM PST by kalee (01/20/13 The end of an error.... Obama even worse than Carter.)
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To: Gordon Greene

First it was flatulent cows and now it’s earthworms. We’re doomed, I tell you. Doomed.


29 posted on 03/04/2009 7:30:07 PM PST by Robwin
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To: Yardstick
Dude, don’t bogart the worm.

What about the 'roach'? (I wonder if roaches fart?)

30 posted on 03/04/2009 7:35:35 PM PST by ETL (ALL the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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To: ETL

So it’s Global Worming.....


31 posted on 03/04/2009 8:07:16 PM PST by Benjamin Dover (This tagline space for rent)
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To: Yardstick

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.


32 posted on 03/04/2009 8:16:01 PM PST by txnativegop (God Bless America! (NRA-Endowment))
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To: Benjamin Dover
So it’s Global Worming...

"We are all worms, but I do believe I am a glowworm."
—Winston Churchill
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glowworm

33 posted on 03/04/2009 8:18:10 PM PST by ETL (ALL the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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To: theDentist

Nitrous ping!


34 posted on 03/04/2009 8:21:39 PM PST by headsonpikes (Genocide is the highest sacrament of socialism.)
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To: Robwin

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??)


35 posted on 03/04/2009 8:22:30 PM PST by 21twelve
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To: Gordon Greene; Entrepreneur; Defendingliberty; WL-law; Genesis defender; proud_yank; FrPR; ...
 




Beam me to Planet Gore !

36 posted on 03/04/2009 8:53:52 PM PST by steelyourfaith (Yo, Washingtonians, the American people called. They DEMAND their country back.)
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To: Gordon Greene

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.


37 posted on 03/04/2009 8:56:04 PM PST by Danae (Amerikan Unity My Ass)
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To: Gordon Greene

38 posted on 03/04/2009 8:56:16 PM PST by 50mm (My respect for zero has reached zero)
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To: 50mm

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


39 posted on 03/04/2009 8:58:12 PM PST by Gordon Greene (www.fracturedrepublic.com - Welcome to the brave new world...)
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To: Gordon Greene

I posted it larger this time to clarify. The idiot is so full of gas he spews at both ends.


40 posted on 03/04/2009 9:00:07 PM PST by 50mm (My respect for zero has reached zero)
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