Posted on 03/26/2010 11:59:25 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
It is becoming difficult to keep pace with the speed at which the global warming scam is now unravelling. The latest reversal of scientific “consensus” is on livestock and the meat trade as a major cause of global warming – one-fifth of all greenhouse gas emissions, according to eco-vegetarian cranks. Now a scientific report delivered to the American Chemical Society says it is nonsense. The Washington Times has called it “Cowgate”.
The cow-burp hysteria reached a crescendo in 2006 when a United Nations report ominously entitled “Livestock’s Long Shadow” claimed: “The livestock sector is a major player, responsible for 18 per cent of greenhouse gas emissions measured in CO2e (carbon dioxide equivalents). This is a higher share than transport.” This led to demands in America for a “cow tax” and a campaign in Europe at the time of the Copenhagen car crash last December called Less Meat=Less Heat.
Now a report to the American Chemical Society by Frank Mitloehner, an air quality expert at the University of California at Davis, has denounced such scare-mongering as “scientifically inaccurate”. He reveals that the UN report lumped together digestive emissions from livestock, gases produced by growing animal feed and meat and milk processing, to get the highest possible result, whereas the traffic comparison only covered fossil fuel emissions from cars. The true ratio, he concludes, is just 3 per cent of greenhouse gas emissions in America are attributable to rearing of cattle and pigs, compared with 26 per cent from transport.
Mitloehner also makes the deadly serious point: “Producing less meat and milk will only mean more hunger in poor countries.” Precisely. The demonising of cows and pigs is just another example of global warmists’ callous indifference to starvation ......
(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.telegraph.co.uk ...
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Now that is an intelligent cow....I’ve known a few,...most don’t look that good.
We must be getting close to beating this Climate gate to it's final end...
I think I saw one more thing....or thug ..we should talk about....Pachiri got blessed with an article.
Sorry about the blow torch graphic....but it does raise the B**S*** theme to another level!
It had to reach the Cowgate stage – let’s face it AGW is synonymous with BS!
There are some true warmists believers commenting ....not believing the article at all.
Cows can be kind of cute — look at all the Swiss cows, brushed every day, wearing those flowered bell collars.
[Sorry about the blow torch graphic....but it does raise the B**S*** theme to another level!]
Lol, it does, but I like to think of them as ‘walking steak and milk containers’!!
Works for me.
Lol, it better - or no steak for you!!
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