The world has two kinds of people:
1. Those who think of nothing but RACE RACE RACE.
2. Those who think of nothing but CO2 CO2 CO2.
But it’s nice to see somebody rehabilitating ruminants, even if it is only because their hooves leave deep impressions in the soil.
It just goes to show the folly of “science” these days. One day you are the most evil creature on the planet, the next you’re a hero. It’s just like the old Soviet Union.
I read a similar article on Siberia. A Russian scientist had calculated that by allowing the big mammals like Yaks, Bison, Elk and Moose to thrive again it would delay permafrost melting by like 2 centuries. Apparently they are being over-hunted now.
It seems besides the stamping of feet they concentrate on eating shoots of young trees. Keeping the area steppe and tundra. When the grasslands are allowed to become forests the dark foliage in the summer absorbs a LOT more heat due to the changed Albido. The grasslands in summer are light gray and reflect most of the light , allowing the ground to remain frozen just a few inches deep.
seems a cheap and easy way to keep the far north cold another 200 years.
https://courier.unesco.org/en/articles/sergey-zimov-thawing-permafrost-direct-threat-climate
Who would have thought it.
This isn't science. It is propaganda labeled as science "scientism".
Bison are very efficient at sequestering carbon, as long as they are alive. Then they die and, as they decompose, they release all the carbon they captured during their growth cycle.
For bison to sequester carbon for a long time, they have to be turned into coal. This is technically feasible, but it requires an assist from Mother Nature and a lot of time.
The same is true of all living plants and animals.
Carbon sequestration over the lifecycle of plants and animals is so trivial as to be irrelevant. Whatever position one takes in the CO2 wars, the issue is about the release of geologically stored carbon, not hamburger production. Or ethanol production, in which a corn plant is planted in (say) April or early May and harvested and processed in September or October, with CO2 as a net wash over that period.
Bison don’t fart?
Bison? Stop being stupid. Trees absorb a million times more CO2.
The global warmism is BS.
BUT ...
Bison meat is ‘good eats’. I prefer it to domesticated beef.
According to wikihahahapedia, bison meat is kosher.
So raising more bison can be a good thing!
hmmm... no mention of bison farts offsets...
So 170 bison are going to save the planet. What if they fart? These people are nuts.
As if we need more carbon to be absorbed...
Without C02 you don’t have OX.
If soil compaction is the ticket, we all need a solar powered asphalt roller.
Interstate construction near me and the earth shakes for a quarter of a mile when they break up the old concrete.
Butt when they fart, WHEW!
200 years ago hundreds of millions of flatulent bison roamed the great plains of North America releasing climate busting clouds of greenhouse gas methane. Certainly that should have assured a climate apocalypse decades ago.
It is interesting but carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane (CH4) are two different compounds. There are some who are shifting away from the CO2 alarmism and shifting it to CH4. That is why the recent push to thin herds of cattle and switch to bug eating.
Will this stupidity ever end?
SOOOOOOOOOOOOOo—IF we herd LIZZO up & down the prairie, we will trap more carbon???
The farm a few hills over used to graze Buffalo. I really miss sitting on my front porch and watching them graze. We drove over there a few times and those males are the size of a tank! Yikes!
It takes 5 YEARS to raise a Buffalo to maturity. That is a LOT of water and grass and grain. But they are tough mothers! Outside all winter, no protection from the weather, etc.
Not sure why he sold them all and stopped raising them. We think he just got too old for it. Raising Buffalo is a young man’s game I guess. ;)