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| Now it's CowGate: expert report says claims of livestock causing global warming are false |
| 2010-03-25 |
| It is becoming difficult to keep pace with the speed at which the global warming scam is now unraveling. The latest reversal of scientific "consensus" is on livestock and the meat trade as a major cause of global warming -- one-fifth of all greenhouse gas emissions, according to eco-vegetarian cranks. Now a scientific report delivered to the American Chemical Society says it is nonsense. The Washington Times has called it "Cowgate". I am Cow, hear me moo I weigh twice as much as you And I look good on the barbecue Yogurt, curd, cream cheese and butter's Made from liquid from my udders I am Cow, I am Cow, Hear me moo (moo) The cow-burp hysteria reached a crescendo in 2006 when a United Nations report ominously entitled "Livestock's Long Shadow" claimed: "The livestock sector is a major player, responsible for 18 per cent of greenhouse gas emissions measured in CO2e (carbon dioxide equivalents). This is a higher share than transport." This led to demands in America for a "cow tax" and a campaign in Europe at the time of the Copenhagen car crash last December called Less Meat=Less Heat. I am Cow, eating grass Methane gas comes out my ass And out my muzzle when I belch Oh, the ozone layer is thinner From the outcome of my dinner I am Cow, I am Cow, I've got gas Now a report to the American Chemical Society by Frank Mitloehner, an air quality expert at the University of California at Davis, has denounced such scare-mongering as "scientifically inaccurate". He reveals that the UN report lumped together digestive emissions from livestock, gases produced by growing animal feed and meat and milk processing, to get the highest possible result, whereas the traffic comparison only covered fossil fuel emissions from cars. The true ratio, he concludes, is just 3 per cent of greenhouse gas emissions in America are attributable to rearing of cattle and pigs, compared with 26 per cent from transport. I am Cow, here I stand Far and wide upon this land And I am living everywhere From B.C. to Newfoundland You can squeeze my teats by hand I am Cow, I am Cow, I am Cow I am Cow, I am Cow, I am Cow! Mitloehner also makes the deadly serious point: "Producing less meat and milk will only mean more hunger in poor countries." Precisely. The demonising of cows and pigs is just another example of global warmists' callous indifference to starvation in the developing world, as in the case of the unbelievably immoral and reckless drive for biofuels -- pouring Third World resources for subsistence into Western liberals' fuel tanks -- and, notoriously, carbon trading. ©The Arrogant Worms Week by week the AGW collapse intensifies. Himalayan glaciers, polar bears, Arctic ice, Amazon rainforests, all discredited. Now it turns out the great cow-burp scare is bovine excrement too. The global warming scam is, to the majority of people, an object of derision. The scientific community has also at last wakened up. They are smelling the coffee in more and more institutions these days. |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #2 CO2e (carbon dioxide equivalents) Therein lies another huge scandal relating to the Montreal Protocol which led directly to the Kyoto Protocol. The Montreal Protocol which supposedly saved us from ozone depletion mandated the use of gases with CO2 equivalents hundreds of times greater than CO2 itself. Notwithstanding the fact CO2 equivalents are basically guesswork with almost no empirical basis. |
| Posted by: phil_b 2010-03-25 20:41 |
| #1 Mucky! |
| Posted by: Frank G 2010-03-25 18:06 |