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Satellites detect California cow burps, a major methane source, from space
Reuters via MSN ^ | April 30, 2022 | By Valerie Volcovici

Posted on 04/30/2022 9:49:09 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Satellites have detected methane emissions from belching cows at a California feedlot, marking the first time emissions from livestock - a major component of agricultural methane - could be measured from space.

Environmental data firm GHGSat this month analyzed data from its satellites and pinpointed the methane source from a feedlot in the agricultural Joaquin Valley near Bakersfield, California in February.

This is significant, according to GHGSat, because agricultural methane emissions are hard to measure and accurate measurement is needed to set enforceable reduction targets for the beef-production industry.

GHGSat said the amount of methane it detected from that single feedlot would result in 5,116 tonnes of methane emissions if sustained for a year. If that methane were captured, it could power over 15,000 homes, it said.

Agriculture contributes 9.6% to U.S. greenhouse gas emissions, according to Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and about 36% of methane emissions, mostly from livestock.

The Biden administration late last year announced its plan to crack down on methane emissions from the U.S. economy.

(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: California
KEYWORDS: anwr; bidenflation; california; carbontax; cop26; globalwarming; globalwarminghoax; greennewdeal; hoax; keystonexl; methane; opec; panicporn; propaganda; seaweed; socialism; taxes
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Dr. Frank Mitloehner at UC Davis has done an excellent job at scientifically debunking the anti animal agriculture wackos; with sound science:

https://www.alltech.com/podcast/frank-mitloehner-cattle-climate-change-and-methane-myth

He’s a good guy that Freepers should follow.


41 posted on 04/30/2022 10:40:05 AM PDT by HereInTheHeartland (Have you seen Joe Biden’s picture on a milk carton?)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
ohno
42 posted on 04/30/2022 10:44:37 AM PDT by MomwithHope (Forever grateful to all our patriots, past, present and future.)
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To: SpokeshaveReturns

A flock of said fitted cows congregating under a tree in a rainstorm....

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A flock of cows? I thought it was a bevy of cows.


43 posted on 04/30/2022 10:46:15 AM PDT by Graybeard58
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
accurate measurement is needed to set enforceable reduction targets for the beef-production industry

Time to start buying grass or grain finished beef from local sources. That way they won't be able to measure because the cattle won't all be gathered up in large numbers like they are at feed lots.

44 posted on 04/30/2022 10:48:15 AM PDT by Pollard (Who stole my tagline?)
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To: EEGator

“the time of megaflora and megafauna?”

What do you think is the percentage of Americans who have ever even heard those words before let alone know that they mean?


45 posted on 04/30/2022 10:49:39 AM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

sorry, gave all those to Ukraine


46 posted on 04/30/2022 10:53:03 AM PDT by Pollard (Who stole my tagline?)
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To: Rebelbase

LOL, mea culpa.


47 posted on 04/30/2022 11:03:39 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

For ten thousand years there were 60 million bison on the Great Plains EVERY YEAR . -ozarkbisons.com

There are 5 million cows in California.

They are worried about .000001% methane?

These people belong in an insane asylum.


48 posted on 04/30/2022 11:27:42 AM PDT by bunkerhill7 (That`s 464 people per square foot! Is this corrrect..it was NYC.)
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To: carriage_hill

Methane has a very specific spectral signature in the infrared and near infrared bands. It is easily detectable from orbit. Humans have used the same spectral lines to look for methane on Mars and also into deep space on exoplanets. With high resolution multi spectral orbital imaging it would be easy to spot methane from space. This method is used to spot leaks in pipelines and also from tank batteries from airborne multispec and orbital as well. Tech has gotten down to the one meter resolution from orbit much less if you have access to classified imaging means.

I hold a master’s in remote sensing, and a National geospatial intelligence certification as well. So I’m a expert in this field. Sensing the methane is not all that hard. The question is does it matter on a planetary scale the likely answer is not at all given how much methane is released naturally from swamps, ocean seeps, ocean hydrates, permafrost hydrates act.


49 posted on 04/30/2022 11:33:24 AM PDT by JD_UTDallas ("Veni Vidi Vici" )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I’m investing in GasX stock right away.


50 posted on 04/30/2022 11:33:40 AM PDT by Pirate Ragnar (Hope coming from Florida)
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To: bray

Methane is generated by a very unusual parasitic class of bacteria called methanogens, not the cattle themselves. They survive by stealing energy from other life forms. Trace amounts of oxygen kill them. They die easily, much more so than other farming pests.


51 posted on 04/30/2022 11:40:59 AM PDT by Reeses
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To: BitWielder1

Yep! They signal what they’re going to do in advance.


52 posted on 04/30/2022 11:44:25 AM PDT by Keyhopper (Indians had bad immigration laws)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

time to re-direct the satellite toward DC.


53 posted on 04/30/2022 12:20:08 PM PDT by DPMD ( )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I heard once that termites produce a lot of methane. Can that be detected by satellite, too?


54 posted on 04/30/2022 12:22:46 PM PDT by Berosus (I wish I had as much faith in God as liberals have in government.)
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To: Fledermaus

Demo rats opened their month, typical bull.


55 posted on 04/30/2022 12:28:49 PM PDT by Ronald77
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To: DPMD

… time to re-direct the satellite toward DC...

Exactly!


56 posted on 04/30/2022 1:13:48 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

My headline: Pinkos hate Cows


57 posted on 04/30/2022 1:16:38 PM PDT by vpintheak (Live free, or die!)
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To: JD_UTDallas

Good answer; I accept that. Thanks.


58 posted on 04/30/2022 1:42:16 PM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Bull sh*t.


59 posted on 04/30/2022 2:23:38 PM PDT by Dalberg-Acton
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

If the Biden administration would worry less about insignificant crap like this & more about important things like adequate gas & oil drilling, the economy or the southern border, just think how much better off we’d be. How many years might cow belches have been going on & what has happened as a measurable destructive result of it as compared to the things directly affecting our economy right now? We’d all be measurably better off if the brainiacs in D.C. used their brains instead of sitting on them.


60 posted on 04/30/2022 4:17:49 PM PDT by oldtech
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