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A Herd of 170 Bison May Be the Unlikely Climate Warriors We've Needed All Along-These massive mammals are absorbing carbon with every giant step they take
Popular Mechanics ^ | MAY 23, 2024 | DARREN ORF

Posted on 05/28/2024 6:44:10 AM PDT by SJackson

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1 posted on 05/28/2024 6:44:10 AM PDT by SJackson
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To: Iowa Granny; Ladysmith; Diana in Wisconsin; JLO; sergeantdave; damncat; phantomworker; joesnuffy; ..
Outdoors/Rural/wildlife/hunting/hiking/backpacking/National Parks/animals list please FR mail me to be on or off . And ping me is you see articles of interest.
2 posted on 05/28/2024 6:44:34 AM PDT by SJackson (There is only one thing worse than fighting with allies, and that is fighting without them Churchill)
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But...but...do bison fart?


3 posted on 05/28/2024 6:45:12 AM PDT by Flag_This (They're lying.)
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To: SJackson

What does this have to do with mechanics?


4 posted on 05/28/2024 6:45:58 AM PDT by Ge0ffrey
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The world is near a 50 million year low in CO2 in the atmosphere. It has “recently” bounced off the bottom (possibly with some contribution of mankind, but that’s still not determined), which is a very good thing, because we were close to the levels where plants would start to die off.


5 posted on 05/28/2024 6:47:56 AM PDT by PGR88
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Well a Carbon Based Planet has lots of carbon and you’ll never ever reduce it ,LOL


6 posted on 05/28/2024 6:48:01 AM PDT by butlerweave
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We need more snuffleupagus


8 posted on 05/28/2024 6:49:35 AM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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Oh Puhleeze. What a bunch of bovine excrement. These people have lost their friggin’ minds.


9 posted on 05/28/2024 6:50:17 AM PDT by Sequoyah101 (The Government that got us in this mess is not the Government that can get us out of it.)
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interesting


10 posted on 05/28/2024 6:50:27 AM PDT by Sunsong
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“...large land mammals.” So cows are “good” again?


11 posted on 05/28/2024 6:52:12 AM PDT by mad_as_he$$
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The globe is approximately 3/4 water. The 1/4 of land has vast tracts of no or few inhabitants. More or less cows aren’t going to significantly influence carbon levels, the ozone layer nor ‘climate change’.


12 posted on 05/28/2024 6:53:28 AM PDT by tflabo (Truth or tyranny)
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Well, it looks like some climate alarmists have discovered a tiny sliver of the immense carbon cycle that all life depends on.

It seems they still haven’t discovered the fact that all life is formed from carbon dioxide. Let’s hope they discover this before they put too many carbon sequestration schemes in place and start causing mass extinctions.


13 posted on 05/28/2024 6:53:32 AM PDT by exDemMom (Dr. exDemMom, infectious disease and vaccines research specialist.)
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Plant trees and use the wood and then plant more trees.


14 posted on 05/28/2024 6:54:33 AM PDT by Jonty30 (He hunted a mammoth for me, just because I said I was hungry. He is such a good friend. )
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“It’s estimated that livestock contribute to roughly 14.5 percent of the world’s CO2 emissions,”

Sunovabitch, PopMech, don’t you have an editor anymore? They mean to say livestock contribute 14.5 percent of the global-warming emissions (as measured by total heating effect, not volume or mass). Those emissions in the case of livestock are from methane. The amounts are actually minimal, but the effect is 28 times greater than water (per mass? per mole?)


15 posted on 05/28/2024 6:54:50 AM PDT by dangus
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The absurdity of the “carbon” crisis and “global warming” is so amazing I find it incredible that there are still articles and studies going on. What it tells me is that there are no real crises. At least not ones anyone can get behind to resolve. Social Security, illegal immigration, government overreach all easily come to mind as much more real and immediate than carbon or global warming. But mention them and someone waves his hand and says, “We’re all gonna die in just ten years.” They’ve been ten-yearing the rubes since the sixties when the crisis was the coming ice age and peak oil. I remember an article stating we were all going to die in the freezing dark by 1975.


16 posted on 05/28/2024 6:56:04 AM PDT by Gen.Blather (Wait! I said that out loud? )
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Trying to solve an imaginary problem.


17 posted on 05/28/2024 6:56:34 AM PDT by Socon-Econ (adi)
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But...but...do bison fart?

No, apparently they burp and do other bodily excretions. I guess that's a worse word than burp.

18 posted on 05/28/2024 6:57:04 AM PDT by SJackson (There is only one thing worse than fighting with allies, and that is fighting without them Churchill)
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To: Ge0ffrey; null and void; Travis McGee; Diogenesis; Red Badger

Popular Mechanics has gone Woke Stupid.

I can’t remember if it was Popular Mechanics or Popular Science that ran a ridiculous story on the Glomar Explorer when I was just a kid.

I thought it was a completely stupid story. I had no idea what it was for.

But it wasn’t going to be picking up “nitrogen nodules” - absolutely stupid.

I wonder if they thought that they were actually fooling anybody significant.

Much later we found out what that ship was really doing.

Which was a good idea.

But the “article” was ridiculous.


19 posted on 05/28/2024 6:57:06 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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because we were close to the levels where plants would start to die off.

We're still dangerously close to those levels.

I've tried to point out to carbon alarmists the central role of atmospheric CO2 in supporting life on this planet. When plants die off because of insufficient CO2, this means that everything that depends on plants also dies off from lack of carbon. You can't remove a ton of CO2 from the air without decreasing the existing biomass by a ton.

The answer I've received from alarmists is that it's okay for plants requiring a relatively high concentration of CO2 to die off, because there will still be other plants that can survive on lower CO2 concentrations. They simply cannot (or refuse to) understand the link between CO2 and total biomass.

20 posted on 05/28/2024 6:58:26 AM PDT by exDemMom (Dr. exDemMom, infectious disease and vaccines research specialist.)
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