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 ...
Really?? His name is Stafarto?? LOLOLOLOLOLOL Aptly named.
1. Define the “correct” temperature range for the planet.
2. Define the “correct” humidity range for the planet.
3. Define the “correct” mean sea level for the planet.
4. Define the “correct” amount of precipitation for the planet.
5. Define the “correct” makeup of the atmosphere.
6. Define the “correct” amount of sea ice at the N/S poles.
7. Define/explain past glaciation and subsequent warming without any input from humans.
Crickets!
Currently allergic to mollusks. Wasn’t always the case. Rented a house on the south shore of Long Island on a canal back in my late 20s. My house mate and I tied our fishing boats up right in the canal adjacent to the back yard.
That was the summer of 79 and we caught and ate a variety of seafood provided by the Great South Bay and the Atlantic. My roomie had some clams that were ‘old’ so he made ‘fritters’ out of ‘em and we ate them while watching a yankees baseball game. They were bad. By the 4th inning we started to ‘out gas’. And it was of the most unpleasant sort. By the 5-6th inning we had rigged up an exhaust fan by a window and were obliged to backup to said fan and outgas into the fan.
It would be impossible to describe how bad the smell was. It was awful.
A few weeks later I noticed a yew shrub that was by that window was dying. I have no doubt why
That’s the secret to digging quahogs; listen for the farts.
...and
8. Is it true that 1 cow fart = 2437 clam farts?
When is Al Gore going to complain about Shellfish Farts?
“Old” clams? You know better now don’t you. Even though you’re currently allergic, you could provide counsel to others that may be tempted to use “old” clams. ;-)
Yes, the left has lost its mind.
Stafarto.
Pronounced Sta-fart-o.
:)
You beat me to it.
Must have created an obsession with him.
Sorry to the adulterated format.
Table 7a-1: Average composition of the atmosphere up to an altitude of 25 km. Gas Name Chemical Formula Percent Volume Nitrogen N2 78.08% Oxygen O2 20.95% *Water H2O 0 to 4% Argon Ar 0.93% *Carbon Dioxide CO2 0.0360% Neon Ne 0.0018% Helium He 0.0005% *Methane CH4 0.00017% Hydrogen H2 0.00005% *Nitrous Oxide N2O 0.00003% *Ozone O3 0.000004% * variable gases
I first thought it said “StaRfarto”. LOL
+1. Lol!
Being such an environmentally-conscious humanitarian, I'll even supply the vinegar, pepper, cilantro, and/or lemon juice needed to "make sure" that they never emit another greenhouse gas again!
Regards,
Good grief, I have never understood why anyone wants to eat NEW clams, the idea of OLD clams makes me want to puke just thinking about it.
End Ordovician, 444 million years ago, 86% of species lost
— Graptolite 2-3 cm length
Graptolites, like most Ordovician life, were sea creatures. They were filter-feeding animals and colony builders. Their demise over about a million years was probably caused by a short, severe ice age that lowered sea levels, possibly triggered by the uplift of the Appalachians. The newly exposed silicate rock sucked CO2 out of the atmosphere, chilling the planet.
https://cosmosmagazine.com/palaeontology/big-five-extinctions
...and I guess the “flatulant shellfish” have been around for only the last 100 years or so...
Und if ve dig a little deeeper,, all da whale poop don’t help either.
I currently swell up and my throat closes if I eat clams or any mollusks.
But up until 1999 I relished clams any way you can think. Raw on the half shell or cooked up in a nice white sauce with linguini. I loved it.
Now my favorite Christmas Eve treat is linguini and “CRAB” sauce. I can eat crustaceans......and do....often.
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