On Mar 6, 3:07 pm, (Doug Miller) wrote:
In article .com, wrote:
On Mar 6, 7:40 am, (Doug Miller) wrote:
In article , "Will"
wrote:
What caused the end of the last ice age? If there were animals around then,
was global warming caused by the animals doing too much farting and thus a
rush of CO2 was released into the atmosphere and vola global warming began.
Eighty percent of all CO2 that is released into the air today is caused by
methane from livestock.

This 80% figure may or may not be correct -- but surely you must acknowledge
that while livestock flatulence is not the direct result of human activity, at
least some of it certainly is an *indirect* result.

I'm still trying to figure out how that methane contributes to the CO2
in the atmosphere. Does OP go about sparking cattle farts?

Well, I'm a little puzzled by that too -- my best guess is that CO2 and
methane are probably released simultaneously when a cow farts, and the OP is a
little confused about the exact mechanism.

Evidently methane in the atmosphere decomposes to CO2 and water.
OP was just being succint.


My point was that it's not accurate to regard livestock emissions as being
unrelated to human activity -- surely there wouldn't be nearly as many bovines
on the planet were it not for human agriculture.

Yes it reminds me of a cartoon of someone who
looked like Chief Dan George standing on a cliff i
overlooking a herd of bison and saying to his young
son, "Someday these buffalo will all be gone. The
white man will replace them with cattle that will
belch a lot and cause global warming."


It's time to throw all their damned tea in the harbor again.

The court case that prompted you to put that in your .sig was
remarkable only in that the defendant was able to get his
case to the USSC. The (ab)use of eminent domain to transfer
property from one private party to another has been settled law
for centuries. Being a liberal, I would have liked it if the BOR
had always been interpreted so as to put an end to the practice
on our side of the pond but I'm pretty sure it was never so.

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FF