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No More Overseas Travel? - Running out of oil? 9-Nov-2007 At 5:02:23 PM Zebedee

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On 9/11/2007 evanbb wrote:
>On 28/10/2007 harold wrote:
>>Zebedee is quite right with the cow thing. Its really basic high school
>>chemistry. CO2 from the air is photosynthesized to grow the grass -
>cow
>>eats the grass for energy - part of the carbon in the grass is belched
>>out as CH4 (methane)
>Sorry Dudes, this is waaaaay late in the piece but I better interject.
>
>
>I work in Greenhouse Gas recording and have a good mat in the Fed. GHG
>office. Cows are WAY bad. Yes the carbon comes from the atmosphere etc,
>but the big difference is that cows turn it into Methane, about 25 times
>more powerful as a GHG than CO2. So, if cows only convert 2 in 25 carbon
>molecules into methane it makes this carbon twice as bad. I repeat, cows
>are bad.
On 26/10/2007 Zebedee wrote
>This may be converted into methane (a more 'effective' greenhouse gas)
I did mention in my original post that methane was more badder than co2 but I hadn't realised how much. But I stick with my other point that it is really a diversion to point at cows when it's people who need to change. So cows aren't bad it's people who are WAY bad .