Tuesday, February 20, 2007

Global Warming Pollution: Cows even worse than cars



"Livestock are responsible for 18 percent of greenhouse-gas emissions as measured in carbon dioxide equivalent, reports the FAO. This includes 9 percent of all CO2 emissions, 37 percent of methane, and 65 percent of nitrous oxide. Altogether, that's more than the emissions caused by transportation."

Christian Science Monitor

4 comments:

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Anonymous said...

I think we need to distinguish between closed loop carbon and open loop carbon. Cows are not eating fossil carbon.

Anonymous said...

Cows smell funny but taste yummy!

Ed said...

There's no such thing as global warming! It's a hoax to turn CO2 into gold by swindlers like Al Gore. He gets rich off idiotic carbon credits while we stupidly plunge our economies into the toilets in a quixotic attempt to prevent something that doesn't exist. The Earth is cooling you morons! Millions of more people will die from Earth cooling as Earth heating. But then, for you Gaia-worshipping Earth-firsters, humans are parasites on Mother Earth anyway and the fewer of us there are, the better. It explains why you keep your mouths shut about the death count in Africa. To you, it's the single greatest purging of humans from Earth you could ever hope for.