Posted on 10/16/2017 8:27:06 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Swedish scientists have found that flatulent shellfish are creating vast amounts of greenhouse gases, leading to a predictable slew of comments about farting cockles and clams. But beneath the schoolboy humour, there is a serious point. The two gases in question – methane and nitrous oxide – are potent agents of climate change, with a warming potential 28 and 265 times greater than carbon dioxide respectively.
Scientists studying the Baltic Sea off the coast of Sweden have found that shellfish are producing one-tenth of all the greenhouses gases released there – the equivalent to the amount produced by 20,000 cattle. If the same situation is being replicated around the rest of the world’s seas and oceans, we have a serious problem.
Chief scientist Stafarto Bonaglia, from Stockholm University, is certainly concerned: “It sounds funny, but small animals in the seafloor may act like cows in a stable, both groups being important contributors of methane due to the bacteria in their gut.”
He also points out that shellfish were releasing these gases long before global warming became an issue, and believes that the recent emissions may have been exacerbated by the enrichment of coastal waters, due to the run-off from agricultural fertilisers.
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
OK!! Everybody pay attention!
Lesson for today:
1. The sun is 1,300,000 times as big as the earth.
2. The sun is a giant nuclear furnace that controls the climates of all its planets.
3. The earth is one of the sun’s planets.
4. The earth is a speck in comparison to the size of the sun.
5. Inhabitants of the earth are less than specks.
Study Question: How do less-than-specks in congress plan to control the sun?
Some people really need to get a life.
So they didn't fa** until the 20th century?
When I read something like this I am reminded of a scene from the Book “That Hideous Strength” where I think Fillistrato is admiring the moon. He admires it because there is no life. It is sterile. These nuts think like that. They want a climate that doesn’t change. They want a sterile, lifeless place where the environment never changes.
This has to be a joke.
methane and nitrous oxide – are potent agents of climate change, with a warming potential 28 and 265 times greater than carbon dioxide respectively.
And since Carbon Dioxide has ZERO to do with Global Warming, there is Nothing to worry about, now the Lack of Sun Spots is definitely something to worry about, beware the Maunder Minimum.
Death to the shellfish. Well, except for lobster and crab and shrimp. Clams need to die.
This all seems very shellfish of them.
Well this important research makes it clear that we also need about $1 billion to study the salinity of sea water. It also must contribute to the chemical make up and exhaust of gasses released into the atmosphere. After that, we should research how we can change the salinity of those oceans to better adapt our planet in accordance to what liberals deem as the perfect climate.
So when you are asked “do fish eff under water,” it’s wrong, they only fart?
All BS Daydreaming!!!
Don't you need 2/3 of the Senate to be IMPEACHED?
This is all Democrat #NeverTRUMPer BS!
Wrong thread! Sorry!!
Just going to say, 20,000 head of cattle is about 4 dairy farms here in Wisconsin. And we have over 50 more the same size or bigger. And there are a thousand smaller ones.
Of course there were herds of over a million buffalo in the US before the 1850s. And the deer population is in the millions currently.
But if you really want to find some CO2 check out leaves and grass decaying in meadows and forests. Life produces CO2 and so does death.
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