oija - 2019-02-08 10:43 AM


Yeah do you also choose cud? The amount of methane you produce is nothing next to ruminants like cattle and sheep.

dawnb - 2019-02-08 1:54 PM

Someone or ones mentioned human farts, let look at earth population 200 yrs ago compared to now. No I'm not going google the difference but I now it is huge very go back 300 yrs. Don't go blaming cattle.

Bear - 2019-02-08 3:57 PM 200 years ago, the world population was 1 Billion. Now it’s almost 8 Billion. Maybe that’s why progressive liberals really love abortion and infanticide so much......cut down on the impact of human farts. The way I see it, most of the hot air comes from the left. If only we could concentrate all the liberal progressives in one country maybe they could use their own eugenics on themselves.....and save the planet in more ways than one.

oija - 2019-02-08 4:59 PM

Cattle are a bigger part of the picture for a couple reasons. A) they are eating a lot of grain over just grass which produces more methane than buffalo and B) (like I said before) there are way more people and way more emissions from other causes like vehicle traffic and burning coal to produce electricity in addition to the cattle causing potential issues with pollution and climate change. So the emissions factor is greatly increased over anything in the previous centuries when buffalo were wandering around.

And historically the earth CAN handle a lot of crap and even heat. The problem is that those mechanisms the earth has for dealing with too much carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, think rainforests, ocean algae, etc. we are also negatively impacting and destroying. The earth getting hotter by itself isn't the problem. The earth getting hotter while we work on destroying her natural mechanisms for dealing with changes IS a problem that goes beyond just emissions.

As far as other countries go, they too need to work on their emissions issues and pollution issues. But this is a case of two wrongs don't make a right. We can't point at India and China and other countries and say just because their emissions are going up that we should have the right to stop working on ourselves. And even with their emissions going up, America BY FAR with FAR LESS POPULATION THAN CHINA OR INDIA has the largest emissions record and carbon footprint per capita. If you look at emissions per capita, I am sorry but we are the most capable of effecting change person by person. And if we are going to scream about how great America is then we need to prove it and be a leader in these things.

All that said, I am a moderate. The lady's plan posted in the OP's original article is extreme and ridiculous. I am not about to stop eating steak or voting to get rid of cows. But finding good solutions to deal with with pollution issues we cause to make life healthier for everyone like feeding cows different products to decrease methane production or finding alternative energy sources that are sustainable and renewable and quite simply picking up the trash we create and recycling it is just a good idea plain and simple.

vjls - 2019-02-09 10:01 AM https://www.facebook.com/GlennBeck/videos/2011780018943229/UzpfSTEwM... so dam funny but scary as hell

Southtxponygirl - 2019-02-09 11:21 AM  

Bear - 2019-02-08 7:29 PM


Oija, you seem moderately sensible.
My earlier point is that we are leading the world in reducing greenhouse emissions. We cannot force China, India, and Europe to lower their emissions. We didn’t need some limp-wristed, costly unenforceable “agreement” to which the biggest offenders will not comply.
This pie graph gives us an idea of the sources of atmospheric methane. Some of these sources are interesting.....termites, and rice farming. It doesn’t take much imagination to understand how the methane factor is a liberal politician’s wet dream.
My question to you is this....if you feel excess methane needs to be reduced, what are YOUR solutions?

oija - 2019-02-09 12:36 PM


I have read some interesting things about how they have developed some barley grass feeds to help with the methane issues. There are several things in agriculture and we can continue to do and research. I actually think some nuclear energy may help us clean up a lot of coal burning that we do. If we develop infrastructure for more electric or hybrid vehicles for just daily commute vehicles based on nuclear electrical I think it would be great. Heavy hauling will still probably demand more fuel burning but that would cut down on a lot of heavy city emissions and make for cleaner air for people to breath since most driving doesn’t honestly need a lot of power. The newer nuclear production methods they have are so much safer and cleaner and produce so much less waste than they used to I think it’s actually a really viable energy source for electricity. I mean wind and solar and hydro are great but they just aren’t enough to really power the world. But nuclear is.

We also really need to work on cleaning up our oceans from plastic and other issues to allow algae to really flourish. It’s the #1 creator of a healthy ozone layer and oxygen. The best way our planet has of self regulating so we should do what we can to promote it’s growth and health. India and China are something I am not as sure about but something needs to be done more in Europe too. They all need to responsible and answerable too.