A new Canadian-led study, testing the math used to estimate the greenhouse gas (GHG) output from belching, farting dairy cows, shows the current models either overshoot or undershoot the mark.
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For example, the authors said, the “widely used” IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) equation, which predicts methane production based on energy intake of the cow, can’t distinguish the effect of a higher energy intake on methane due to a rise in feed intake level, from that due to a rise in dietary fat content at the same feed intake level.
“A higher feed intake will increase methane production. A rise in dietary fat content will decrease methane production,” said Ellis, now doing her post-doctorate study at Wageningen.
“There is a lot of concern right now about the impact of farming and human life in general on the environment. The prediction accuracy of these equations is small, and the equations are not suitable to quantify methane production of cows.”
(*Random Media Vocabulary Note: Not via Canadian Cattlefarmers)
“what I eat don’t make you isht, where’s the love?” – Jay-Z
Gotta give the Progressives credit for trying to get two birds stoned at once. Frozen vegetables for all!
The cattle we herd for food is stinking the place up with green house gases through farting.
We are advised (soon to be forced, no doubt) into eating what the cattle eats (grains) and not eating the cattle, (meat) but getting rid of them as a food source.
So I see it as a simple debate over who gets to do the farting.
I prefer to position myself as high on the food chain as possible.
“Cattle farmers”?
There was a time when talkin’ like that’d get ya shot, like as not.
Well who knew you could get a PhD studying cow farts.
What next, advanced degrees in victimization fear mongering?
So, if you plant your cows up to their bellies, could you then be considered a cattle farmer? Will that also make the cows vegetables, having been converted from livestock? (Will this not also prevent them from getting foot and mouth disease as they won’t be able to lick their hooves?)
A city slicker.
CattleFISHERS!
What about the greenhouse gases emitted by belching, f*rting AGW “scientists” and all those wonderful Eco-Warriors? I’m guessing that, for example, the tall and corpulent Goracle is a major sinner in this respect. Can we force-feed Beano pills to all these culprits?
“…the “widely used” IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) equation, which predicts methane production based on energy intake of the cow, can’t distinguish the effect of a higher energy intake on methane due to a rise in feed intake level, from that due to a rise in dietary fat content at the same feed intake level.”
You mean the IPCC creates equations and draws conclusions based on faulty premises? /sarc
Fred @ 11:06, they already do.
“Cattle Farmers”? How much nitrogen, phosphate and potash would you use to plant cattle and what would you spray them with? Does the amount of rain affect their growth rate?
Well, considering this is about catastrophic global warming, there has got to be a little more kick to the PC word for ranchers:
bovine methane gas deniers
global climate disruption enablers
Big Burger funded skeptics
And, best of all, for prairie cattlemen the term flat-earthers is actually applicable.
No offense, however…
I find it hard to believe you go on about the proper terminology regarding cattlemen (fair enough, cattlemen is the correct word no doubt), yet at the same time you claim that what they do is “run a few head” (amongst other things). The term “run a few head” is a bastardization of the English language if I ever saw one. The phrase “run a head”, could equally suggest the image of an alligator head popping out of your water faucet, or a marathon taking place along the front of a river. But cattlemen, for lack or originality, decide to reuse two words that have already been reused 10,000 times to associate one more meaning to this vague phrase devoid of meaning.
So I don’t think it’s wise to be picky about choice or words (“cattlemen” vs “cattle farmer” when you’re willing to blindly tolerate one the worst choice of words (“run a few head”) that I’ve ever seen.
CattleFISHERS! Well said, FFF, well said.
Politically correct language cleansing is a farce. Mark Stein wrote a great essay on the absurdity of such politically correct nonsense.
CattleFISHERS! I love it.
CattleGROWERS!
I love your irony atv12:14 PM, scf, absolutely LOVE IT! You have a great sense of humour; almost as good as FFF.
BTW, I am assuming you are not so stupidly uninformed as to NOT know what cattlemen call cattle (as in “head of cattle”); and that they regularly “run heads” (as in “heads of cattle”).
“BTW, I am assuming you are not so stupidly uninformed…”
Jesus, you people are a tough crowd some mornings.
Back OT…..basically this gal is spouting off about methane/bovines and admits she doesn’t know isht.(pun intended)
As for the “cattle farmers” clumsyness….is just as silly as the gender neutral nonsense wherein a “manhole” must be called a “maintainence hole”.(screams)
Well I am waiting for a program to utilize that natural resource for good. A bag, a valve and a spark will keep away predators, light the way home. Where’s the funding? No? Bags fertilizer too.
If I remember correctly, the original solution to methane was..wait for it…a cow tax.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=cow-tax-epa-clean-air-policy-methane-emissions
$cientists, of course, want more govt. grant money to research and mitigate cow methane.
PETA and progressives dream of legislating meatless Mondays (to be followed by meatless Tues., Wed.,…Sun)
In the end, once every agency and activist got their cut, prices for choice beef cuts would be affordable to only the top members of the Gaia worshiping food chain.
” I used to cringe when cows cut the cheese.
Then I checked the facts
Now I’m a denier ”
CattleGROWERS CattleFISHERS Cattle Farmers cattlemen???
Rural conservative welfare bums, in a nutshell.
I wanna see them calculate the methane produced by the massive herds of bison on the North American plain pre-dirty, filthy “whiteman” era.
Oh, he!!, might as well throw elk and deer and cariboo and other assorted beasts in there, too. Pre-whiteman, of course. Back in the days when this land was a pristine wilderness since time immemorial with only the Gaia worshipping, do-no-evil Turtle Island peoples who so lovingly took care of the land and all its creatures, who dared not even trample on a dried up twig or squish a bug, without giving prayerful thanks to the Great Spirit who gave it all to them and no one else.
This “cows fart” story is more about how informed the so called experts are and less about actual fact.Horses fart,COWS DONT.Cows have four stomachs and so should we if we want to be vegetarians.Adolph Hitler was a vegan(he farted a lot)and an anti smoking advocate.I wonder who won WW2?
phil;I havent heard from you in along time,I asked you to buy a farm and it sounds like you did.You must be making a fortune and living in Switzerland on your subsidies.Whats the matter,feeling guilty about all the free money you are getting?Why dont you give your excess income to the less fortunate,like government employies or health care workers.
So, can we read anything into this. I mean, has the apocalypse-pending crowd given up on sniffing politician’s arses and gone onto other less rewarding enterprises. Oh well, at least their social standing has gone up a notch.
spike 1 at 2:37 PM: “I asked you to buy a farm and it sounds like you did”
Yup. A wind farm. BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
Now maybe we can set to work knocking down those monstrosity eye soars. Think of all the birds we’ll save.
As if it makes one bit of difference anyway?
Erroneous assumptions? Heck yes.
Worth considering in the first place ??
Hardly.
Illegal refugees fart too. I vote for cattle.
Cattle farmers of course employ cowpersons to control their cattlethrongs (“herd” being too gender specific don’t ya know).
Cattle Cultivators
So what’s the big deal? These are dairy cows. All we have to give up is milk, cheese, butter etc.
Got soy?
Phil, your real stupid, ill informed and annoying. Go buy some farmland moron, if you can get a loan from momma. The land around me that has sold went for around 35 to 4000 and acre, that makes for a big loan Phil, then you have to have a loan for the cattle and equipment, bet your just strugglin with that loan for your smart car arn’t you, good thing there is something smart around you, you can lay claim to.
Personally I’d be interested to hear what Mr Justin Trudeau has to say on the subject.He is so smart about so many things he doesn’t know about.
I don’t give a f%ck what he thinks, I’m just curious and bored.
I firmly believe that The farmer and the Cowman Should be Friends.
Gord Tulk, thank you for pointing out the sexist nature of that word which refers to a large group of cattle. I will mend my ways.
As for the “cattle farmers” clumsyness….is just as silly as the gender neutral nonsense wherein a “manhole” must be called a “maintainence hole”.(screams)
~sasquatch
“maintainence hole”
Luv it.
I’m never using the term “ex-wife” again.