Worms [when used to compost garbage] are killing the planet, says top researcher

mrw.co.uk ^ | June 21, 2007 | Liz Gyekye

[grundle]

Worm composting could be doing more harm than good to the environment, a leading researcher claimed today.

Composting Association research director Jim Frederickson said: “Worms produce a significant amount of greenhouse gases. Recent research done by German scientists has found that worms produced a third of nitrous oxide gases when used for composting.”

The ‘wiggly ones’ naturally produce nitrous oxide gases when they are put into the process of composting.

Worms can be used for home grown composting or commercial composting and are typically red worms. They are used to recycle food scraps and other organic material into valuable soil worm compost, otherwise known as vermicompost. This compost can then be used to grow plants.

“We have concentrated on getting waste out of landfill and into worm composting systems but they can actually produce more greenhouse gases than landfill sites produce,” Frederickson said.

Under the Waste Strategy the Government has strongly supported the composting of waste in efforts to reduce the landfilling of biodegradable waste. This includes encouraging householders to invest in home composting systems.

The Government wishes to increase the amount of waste which is composted to 40% by 2010 and 45% by 2015.

Although Frederickson says that worm composting is a positive thing, he claims that not enough research has been done on worms releasing polluting gases.

Frederickson said: “Everybody loves them because they think they can do no harm but they contribute to global warming. People are looking into alternative waste treatments but we have to make sure that we are not jumping from the frying pan into the fire.

“We need to investigate all alternative systems for greenhouse potential.

“The emissions that come from these worms can actually be 290 times more potent than carbon dioxide and 20 times more potent than methane. In all environmental systems you get good points and bad points.”

[sourcery]

Lawrence Solomon's "The Deniers" (a series of articles on the view of scientists who have been labelled "Global Warming Deniers"):

• Science, not politics
• Statistics needed
• The original denier: into the cold
• End the chill
• They call this a consensus?
• The limits of predictability
• Unsettled science
• The ice-core man
• The hurricane expert who stood up to UN junk science
• Polar scientists on thin ice
• The sun moves climate change
• Bright sun, warm Earth. Coincidence?
• Look to Mars for the truth on global warming
• Read the sunspots
• Forget warming - beware the new ice age
• Little Ice Age is still with us
• Fighting climate 'fluff'

Other References:

• Father of Climatology Throws Up at the Thought of Al Gore's 'An Inconvenient Truth'
• Swedish Scientist Accuses UN's IPCC of Falsifying Data and Destroying Evidence
• Climate Momentum Shifting: Prominent Scientists Reverse Belief in Man-made Global Warming - Now Skeptics
• Global Warming and Nature's Thermostat
• The Real 'Inconvenient Truth'
• New findings indicate today's greenhouse gas levels not unusual
• Climate Change: Incorrect information on pre-industrial CO2
• Global Warming as a Religion
• I Was On the Global Warming Gravy Train (By David Evans)
• Still Waiting for Greenhouse
• GREENIE WATCH
• Why Global Warming Would be Good for You
• Temperature vs. Cosmic Ray Flux
• Global Warming Primer (PDF)
• Global Warming: An Official Pseudoscience
• Fiddler On The Roof
• Debating Global Warming
• Climate Resistance

[Candor7]

It absolutely horrible here in Vermont. As night falls you can hear the worms breaking wind, up and down the Valley as they go about digest composting the liberal socialist moonbat rhetoric, printed on biodegradable stationary.

The worms themselves refuse to be interviewed, but one can only surmise that they know that global warming is caused by cyclic solar activity.

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

This is a relief!

I compost, and I was worried that people would begin to think I was an econut, or trying to be politically correct. Now that we know worm farts will destroy the planet, I can at least be reassured that I won’t be mistaken for a disciple of Al Gore.

[joebuck]

“Worms produce a significant amount of greenhouse gases. Recent research done by German scientists has found that worms produced a third of nitrous oxide gases when used for composting.”

So THAT'S why fishermen are always laughting (except when they miss a hookset.)

[libstripper]

This is hilarious!! The Watermelons are finally discovering that their "global warming" mythology is throwing a huge monkey wrench into many of their other favorite causes. They better not look too closely at ethanol--fermenting sugars to produce ethanol creates huge amounts of CO2.

[editor-surveyor]

"Hey, I just realized we can solve this problem by extinguishing all life on Earth."

You're starting to figure the death culture out.

[HEY4QDEMS]

worms produced a third of nitrous oxide gases

That's nothing to laugh about, but yet...

[AFreeBird]

What next? Will the enviros tell us to stop drinking beer?

Sitting here as I am at this hour, quaffing down cold Heinekin; I'd say that if they were to try that, it would be.... WAR!!!

[AFreeBird]

Let’s do the environmentally correct thing: pave over the entire world. No fertile soil, no earthworms. No more nature!! Nature is killing the planet.

What are you crazy!?

All that blacktop would turn this planet into an oven. We all know that blacktop absorbs solar radiation, and the Sun.... oh wait, the Sun isn't responsible for warming the planet.

Never mind.

[pacelvi]

It’s surreal how these idiots go on and on about this non-issue.

[newheart]

GLOBAL WORMING ALERT!!!

(After almost 50 posts somebody had to say it.)

[lOKKI]

GLOBAL WORMING ALERT!!! Yes, someone had to say it. Your patience in waiting 50 posts is commendable. Now, go to your room please..... GLOBAL WORMING ALERT!!! Bad Pun, Bad.

[kenth]

Oy

[newheart]

Yes, bad pun. But nothing like Theophilus Punoval.

[Pajamajan]

Worm-Farts-Killing-the-Planet BUMP

[TFFKAMM]

There's a new sound, the newest sound around
The strangest sound that you have ever heard
Not like a wild boar or a jungle lion's roar
It isn't like the cry of any bird
But there's a new sound, it's deep down in the ground
And everyone who listens to it squirms
Because this new, new sound so deep under the ground
Is the sound that's made by worms
(thanks to Tony Burrello and the Muppets)

[donkey slayer]

Maybe Al Snore can sell them some Carbon Credits so the worms don’t feel so guilty and can continue munching.

[donkey slayer]

Maybe they will sign Kyoto, This way they can feel good and continue polluting like the EU and Gore. We can call then the elite slim balls.

[perfect stranger]

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