Originally posted by: destrekor
Originally posted by: funboy42
This morning I had bad gas, some farts were like 3-5 seconds long, and about 5-6 in repeated succession.
That is my contribution to the effects of global warming. People and cows fart out more CO2 gas then all other methods of CO2 producing machinery and factories in the entire world.
If anything we, and the animals we eat, are the main source for global warming, if there was really such a thing. Its just a way to get the sheeple to panic, to allow governments take more freedoms away, and get more from us in taxes for the study of something that always happens, all the time.
methane (what is expelled by animals) does not equal CO2... although it does contribute to the greenhouse gas effect iirc.
Regardless, show me some proof animals let out more gas than all the factories of the world over. Do you know how much CO2 is emitted when coal is burned? Considering it is pure carbon material ignited. They also fart methane, which is touted to be "5 times more effective in trapping heat than co2" Paraphrased, but you get the point
And even if that is true, which I admit may be a possibility, the Earth has the ability to absorb a good amount of that, either directly maintaining a certain amount in the atmosphere or absorbed by plant life. Plant life is the key. Humans are screwing the whole balance up, because we are both removing a large source of CO2 consumption (through deforestation), and greatly upping the amount of CO2 produced in the atmosphere, thus screwing up the atmospheres amount.
How anyone, at this point in time, can STILL deny - with the amount of evidence that has been presented - Global Climate Change is a real problem that is going to fuck up life as we know it... it just shocks me. I'm no hippie and actually want a gas-burning muscle car (just for the muscle, how it gets that muscle I don't care... if they become electric with immense amounts of power, cool!), so I'm a bit of a hypocrite, but at least I acknowledge the matter. And I do agree we need to strive for alternative energy and will adopt solar if it becomes cheap and viable enough to replace power from the electric grid, or enough to get the electric company to pay me.
But no matter the predicted climates, I don't want the world to flood and don't want to live in an extremely hot or cold climate, or one with extreme weather patterns. All of which are basically guaranteed if we do nothing and just attempt to ride it out. And that's just the 'good' prediction. Who knows if the ice age predictions will actually hold true for some regions. It may, or may not. But weather won't be so nice.
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