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Re: {OT} gas emissions
Norm De Plume, 12/13/2006, 8:05:13 AM,
<1166015112.953344.221950@j44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> wrote:
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> badgolferman wrote:
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> > It's time for Al Gore to go stick his head where he can block these
> > CO2 emmisions. This is where he can truly make some difference in
> > controlling greenhouse gases.
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> > Meet the world's top destroyer of the environment. It is not the
> > car, or the plane,or even George Bush: it is the cow.[/color]
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> > [url]http://news.independent.co.uk/environment/article2062484.ece[/url][/color]
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> As far as global warming gases go,. in 1989 methane was responsible
> for about 16% of their global warming, while CO2 contributed 50%,
> this despite each molecule of CH4 having the global warming potential
> of roughly 20 CO2 molecules:
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> [url]www.globalchange.umich.edu/web_archive/image/oldone.gif[/url][/color]
Since the previous link I provided must be paid for now here is another
site that has the same exact story:
[url]http://allafrica.com/stories/200612120261.html[/url]
A 400-page report by the UN's Food and Agricultural Organisation also
surveys the damage done by sheep, chickens, pigs and goats, but in
almost every case, the world's cattle are most to blame.
Livestock are responsible for 18% of the greenhouse gases that cause
global warming -- more than cars, planes and all other forms of
transport put together.
Burning fuel to produce fertiliser to grow feed, to produce meat and to
transport it -- and clearing vegetation for grazing -- produces 9% of
all emissions of carbon dioxide, the most common greenhouse gas. And
cows' wind and manure contain more than a third of emissions of
another, methane, which warms the world 20 times faster than carbon
dioxide.
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How do you explain the UN's own report that points out livestock is
responsible for more greenhouse gases than humankind combined?
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