Methane as a greenhouse gas

[Pete]

There was a proposal in New Zealand a few years ago to tax cow farmers because of the anal outgassing concerns.
Needless to say it was generally known as the "fart tax" and it was never passed into law.
Interesting bit of trivia.

Pete.

[Zac]

This should be a serious discussion.

I could handle swapping dairy coffee and a beef steak once a week to curb greenhouse emissions.

But surely society will approach this with the same ignorace and greed as vehicle emissions.

We await governmental regulation to change our ways.

[Bulgogi]

GTSBoy: Yeah, according to the link (which I just fixed), I'd say the GWP figure of 40 would come from a 50-year period, going by the GWP figure of 56 for a 20-year period.

Sure as hell wouldn't want to be milking a cow with a lit flame near it's arse, either. :p

[tinkerbell]

This should be a serious discussion.

I could handle swapping dairy coffee and a beef steak once a week to curb greenhouse emissions.

But surely society will approach this with the same ignorace and greed as vehicle emissions.

We await governmental regulation to change our ways.

my friend made an observation that we could bag the cows arses and farm methane...

but then but tehn what do we do with it?

[smellytofu]

Put the gas in those natural gas buses. If they can produce that much gas, then instead of a small flame that burns it off, have a big cylinder with a pipe shoved up its ass and empty the bottle everyday.

[BigMuz]

fuck you hippie.
for every animal you don't eat, i'm going to eat two

The real solution is to eat one, and butcher the other one then throw it away.

Then you win twice..