The Cows Stopped Farting In 2000? PDF Print E-mail
Written by Karl J. Hansen   
Sunday, 27 September 2009 13:51
The IPCC has inspired restrictive legislation for our nations cows and other farting farm animals.  They say that the CH4 (methane) levels increase to dangerous levels and that the cows are playing a significant role.

According to the IPCC, this is a problem because the global temperature will increase due to the increase of CH4.

Now the question is if the hypotheses that cows contribute in any measurable way to global CH4 concentration.  Considering that the number of cows has not been falling for the last two decades, the CH4 concentration must be assumed to follow the same rising trend over this period, if other sources have not reduced their contribution significantly.

If we look at the graph below, we can see that the increase in methane levels came to a hold in year 2000.  So, as the CH4 levels haven't increased the last decade, we must assume that one or more methane sources have diminished from year 2000.

ch4-1984-2009

So, my question to the IPCC is:  Did the cows realize that they had to stop farting in order to prohibit the world from overheating?

I think anybody with a sense of reality, will regard the cows global contribution of CH4 to be minimal.  If the cows' contribution was so significant, then we would be better off eradicating not only cows, but also countless other animals and bacteria.

IPCC has said that the Siberian tundras are melting due to increasing temperature, not least in the Northern Hemisphere, and that the release of this ground based CH4 will have devastating effect on the methane levels, thus a runaway scenario where more CH4 drives temperature up, which again releases more methane. - It is extremely difficult to verify this hypotheses in the historical data, even the data provided by the IPCC.

Conclusion.
There is far too little measured historic data to come to any conclusion, but one can certainly question the correctness of a hypotheses claiming a huge role for CH4 as a temperature regulating factor.  I would suggest we allow the cows to fart freely as long as it does not contribute to fire hazards.
Last Updated on Sunday, 27 September 2009 13:53
 

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