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Scientists collect cow farts to combat global warming…

Posted by: MataHarley @ 7:17 pm in Environment, Global Warming, Humor  | 47 views

I swear to you, on my best day, I could not make this up!

Scientists are examining cow farts and burps in a novel bid to combat global warming.

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In a bid to understand the impact of the wind produced by cows on global warming, scientists collected gas from their stomachs in plastic tanks attached to their backs.

The Argentine researchers discovered methane from cows accounts for more than 30 per cent of the country’s total greenhouse emissions.

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Scientists are now carrying out trials of new diets designed to improve cows’s digestion and hopefully reduce global warming. Silvia Valtorta, of the National Council of Scientific and Technical Investigations, said that by feeding cows clover and alfalfa instead of grain “you can reduce methane emissions by 25 percent”.

Pity the poor saps funding this study…. sure hope it isn’t us!

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18 comments so far

Edward Cropper
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On my worst day I could not make this up

July 9th, 2008 at 7:22 pm
Wordsmith
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Eating hamburgers is my methane-offsetting contribution to combating global warming.

It’s a sacrifice to my health, but….if it means saving the planet and some plants from my dinner plate, then by God, I’ll do it!

*burp*

July 9th, 2008 at 7:27 pm
MataHarley
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But of course the obvious question follows… is this classified as Anthropogenic/man made global warming??? Or do we now have BGW… Bovine Global Warming??

Or worse yet… have we now entered the world of *hypenated” global warming classes???

July 9th, 2008 at 7:31 pm
MataHarley
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Eating hamburgers is my methane-offsetting contribution to combating global warming.

It’s a sacrifice to my health, but….if it means saving the planet and some plants from my dinner plate, then by God, I’ll do it!

So can I sell you some “carbon’ated” offsets, Wordsmith?

July 9th, 2008 at 7:34 pm
Mike's America
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As I informed that Dim Wit on another thread, the grant to send bureaucrats to a conference in Palm Springs to discuss “methane emissions from ruminant livestock” was one of the first laughs I had at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. I’m surprised they didn’t choose Hawaii for their conference. But I suppose they were able to study the problem at some four star Dude Ranch with the $50,000 in U.S. taxpayer dollars we shelled out.

July 9th, 2008 at 7:40 pm
MataHarley
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Amazing how your informing “Dim Wit on another thread” manages to be a non-stop thread express ride to cow farts, eh?

July 9th, 2008 at 7:48 pm
Snooper
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Collecting cow farts. SIGH

Isn’t that a cruel and unusual attachment?

July 9th, 2008 at 8:24 pm
Mike's America
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MataH: Some thing about Dim Wit and cow farts just seems to go together!

July 9th, 2008 at 9:39 pm
Gregory Dittman
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Is this a new study? If so it was a waste of money, because those numbers are 15 years-old or so as there was already a study in the U.S. Of course methane burns. India has invented a simple cow patty stoves (which gives a new reason why they don’t want to kill their cows) which is said to be 4 times more efficient than the common stove used in the U.S.
appropedia.org…
highbeam.com…

Just wait till India invents an effecent way to harvest cow gas. There is already methane harvesting at land fills.

July 9th, 2008 at 9:56 pm
Scott Malensek
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Problem is….cows fart through their mouths-not the other end

July 10th, 2008 at 3:56 am
bbartlog
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feeding cows clover and alfalfa

Cows are fed grain rather than clover and alfalfa because you get more fat, faster, by feeding them that way. If you feed them clover and alfalfa you have to account for the fact that you’ll either have them around longer or else have more cows in order to get the same amount of meat.

July 10th, 2008 at 7:43 am
MataHarley
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cows fart through their mouths-not the other end

OMG! Is this *true*, Scott? Someone call PETA! Note in the picture that tube leading to the air tank on it’s back is certainly *not* connected to the mouth….. Poor little thing must be very uncomfortable… not to mention, quite the “Far Side” moment has he mentally blasts the idiot who connect the dang thing!

July 10th, 2008 at 10:06 am
yonason
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Looks like photo caption contest material to me.

Like,…

“I’m here to audition for the remake of ROCKETMAN“

Also, note those plants all around the cow. If they really are the same, it’s Jimson Weed, a potent hallucinogen, not to mention toxin. If bossy eats them, gas is the least of her worries.

Just ask “the Cheshire Cow, in “Alex in Dairyland” if you don’t believe me.

July 10th, 2008 at 2:44 pm
Michael
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This isn’t a study of any kind.

It’s the Democrat controlled Congresses answer to the energy crisis.

As soon as they figure out how to carry the cow in the car’s trunk, we’ll be good to go.

July 10th, 2008 at 2:45 pm
atheling
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Isn’t this a Code Pink cow?

July 10th, 2008 at 9:09 pm
Harry Bergeron
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Many years ago, before the Glowball Warmenating hoax, some bright types did the same kind of study on termites and found that they produce more methane than all other sources put together.

This is plausible because the tropics have trillions and trillions termites, all eating and farting non-stop in the rain forests and savannahs.

Thought you’d want to know.

July 10th, 2008 at 10:14 pm
yonason
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SOMEBODY CHECK MY MATH

According to this study
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1990JGR….95.3619K
termites contribute 8.8 billion tons of CO2 to the atmosphere every year, and that is just one component of the many natural contributors, which make human C02 emissions a tiny fraction of the total.

Other sources are …

other insects, like ants
rotting vegitation and animal carcasses
animal respiration other than cows
volcanoes
forest fires (shame on you, California!)
etc.,

And to top it off, the contribution of CO2 to greenhouse gases is only a fraction of that of water vapor!
http://www.geocraft.com/WVFossils/greenhouse_data.html
And as if that isn’t bad enough, the contribution of CO2 to the greenhouse effect decreases dramatically with increased CO2. I.e., the more you add, the less the increase in effect. So, twice as much causes much less than twice the effect.

Bottom line, leave Bossy alone you sadistic Leftist perverts!

(It’s not more than all the others, Harry, but it IS a pretty sizable amount.)
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Termites are estimated to generate about 4×10E15 g CO2/yr. There are .0022046 pounds per gram, and 1000 pounds per ton. [(4x10E15)*(0.0022046)]/1000 = 8.8×10E10

July 13th, 2008 at 11:43 am

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