How can cow farts and moose burps acutally contibute to global warming?
There was a report on our news stations that cow farts and moose belches are a contributor to global warming. No kidding. They said that large amounts of methane are in it and it is a contributor to global warming. Is it really true?
Finally and most importantly, does this mean when I eat beans, global warming strengthens?
"A falsehood repeated many times becomes a truth"- Winston Churchill
if you believe that mankind is causing global warming it is mind numbing to think there might be a natural cause also. the statement is that there are so many cows and moose that have multiple stomach that they would have a measurable amount of gas produced every day. now i know the green weenies do not like to hear it but mother nature still puts out more green house gases every year then man ever did.
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I’ve heard that also – the cow part anyway. Methane is supposedly a really bad greenhouse gas and there’s a lot of cows in the world – not so many moose – so it’s not that hard to believe. Your bean addiction is probably a problem for the rest of us, also. Light a match!
I heard that about elk also. Don’t you think the folks are getting carried away. If that were an issue wouldn’t we be in better shape now because of all the heards of buffalo that no longer roam the western plains??? It’s true and it’s a silly study. Eat more beans, I have beach front property in Alaska. Bwa ha ha ha!
Yes, it’s true I’ll tell you why. Because there is such a demand for meat/ milk/ eggs [anything with animal products] there has to be enough animals to produce for the economy. As a result they are overproducing livestock for the sake of keeping us content and comfortable. The gas that comes out of anything living is just as bad for the environment as the gas that is expelled from a factory or fire, if it is being produced in large amounts.
And no, by eating beans you’re not contributing to global warming in the same way the overpopulated livestock are. Unless all you eat is beans and you fart all day long for your entire life =P
there is over 1 billion more cows today than 200 years ago
true or not i am eating all the cows i can because they are yummy.
moose are yummy too but they have a season and you can only eat about 1 of them a year
Yes methane is a greenhouse gas. it’s role is far less than CO2 production from burning fossil fuels.
Not true, methane gas puts out more CO2 than all transportation combined.
http://www.glennbeck.com/steakoutourfuture/
Livestock production occupies 70% of all land used for agriculture, or 30% of the land surface of the planet. It is one of the largest sources of greenhouse gases—responsible for 18% of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions as measured in CO2 equivalents. But 6.5 billion people needs to eat.
By comparison, all transportation emits 13.5% of the CO2. It produces 65% of human-related nitrous oxide (which has 296 times the global warming potential of CO2) and 37% of all human-induced methane (which is 23 times as warming as CO2). It also generates 64% of the ammonia, which contributes to acid rain and acidification of ecosystems.
And yes each person release C02 everytime they exhale and fart. Surprise? As we live a lot longer than a cow… we produce a lot more than a cow.
And they are far more humans on earth than cows. But no-one has had the courage yet to blame humans for breathing and farting.
Technically speaking, yes. Farts that emit greenhouse gasses like methane do contribute. However it is on such a small scale compared to other types of emission that it really won’t make much of a difference.
Truth is truth.
Well, seeing how animals have been passing gas and burping for millions of years, they still haven’t had any significant effect on the global climate. So why should they now? People please check your sources before you go and spread false information please.