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Do any experts factor in all the animals who eat fiber and covert it into fat, sugar and protein, past and present. Why is it just cows in the present? Cows do not just eat corn from the cob they eat fiborous plants with little food value and convert it with the aid of the flora and fauna in thier stomachs into products like milk and meat. I would guess the Mega fauna of the past were much better at belching and farting than at present. I would also guess that there were bigger herds than in all the feed lots in all the world now. As a side note do deer farts and wild sheep farts count, they do the same thing as cows?

2006-12-28 09:44:57 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics Zoology

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This has got to be a joke.

2006-12-28 09:48:44 · answer #1 · answered by Actualmente, Disfruto Siendo Lycantropica 7 · 0 0

This is real. There are researchers working on this at Utrecht in the Netherlands. Methane from cow farming may have contributed to the warming period in the dark ages. The evidence is that when millions died of the plague the farms were shut down and a cooling period began. This is absolutely no joke, I have reviewed their work and it is sound science. It also relates to deforestation to make farms though so the exact cause is a bit unknown yet. Cow dung does give off tons of methane though.

They use pollen in ponds from the farms. By the amounts and types of the pollen they can tell when the farms were abandoned. Then they correlated a bunch of data across Europe. Methane is known by scientists to be a worse gas than CO2 for warming.

2006-12-28 10:10:19 · answer #2 · answered by thorian 2 · 0 0

I imagine that the cows are counted because they are in herds. They have experimented with keepinf a large umbrella over the herd to catch the burps. They didnt catch much. CH4 weighing 16 is lighter than the diatomic N2 at 28 and O2 at 32.

2006-12-28 09:56:57 · answer #3 · answered by science teacher 7 · 0 0

Dang! You’ve solved the mystery! It was the woolly mammoth that ended the last Ice Age! Just like your Mom always told you, “It’s freezing outside, go put on a sweater!” And you always wondered how you putting on a sweater would help her feel warmer. Well, here you have it. When you put on a sweater, you get warm and comfortable, so you pass more gas, and this contributes to global warming, so your Mother feels warmer, too! Mother really does know best!

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2006-12-28 10:30:57 · answer #4 · answered by cdf-rom 7 · 0 0

as quickly as you consume much less meat, you withdraw help for the especially unsustainable cattle marketplace. The cattle marketplace contributes to international warming by using applying emitting somewhat some greenhouse gases. a million) Cows are ruminants, which mean they have a digestive kit which leads them to fart a lot (i'd desire to too with 4 stomachs), and the gas they fart is termed methane. some could giggle on the assumption cows farting could be contributing to international warming, yet as quickly as you communicate approximately there are better cows than human beings, indoors the billions, and that methane warms the ambience 23 instances better powerfully than carbon - it figures. 2) As worldwide locations replace into better stepped forward and choose better meat of their weight-loss plan, better land desires to make way for cattle, so forests (like the Amazon rain woodland in Brazil) are cleared and as a effect, those burnt wood launch carbon into the ambience as they're burned, and of direction at the instant are not any further any added absorbing carbon of their boost. Hmm, feels like we would desire to continuously consume monkeys somewhat - a minimum of we does not would desire to chop back down the forests. 3)and then there is all that manure, which releases a greenhouse gas noted as nitrous oxide, a whopping 296 the worldwide warming skill of carbon dioxide. besides that, there are the emissions on the undertaking of adjusting into their feed, producing fertilisers for the feed, besides as seperate yet suitable environmental themes like soil erosion, eutrophication, water pollution and water scarcity, degradation of coral reefs, phew! Yep, ingesting much less meat or maybe going vegan, under the training of a dietician, you're waiting to do much better for our survival.

2016-12-11 17:53:11 · answer #5 · answered by amass 4 · 0 0

The domestic cattle that are penned just in the US exceed ten million. Add all other domestic cattle of the world and there are more methane producers in domestic cattle alone, than in all numbers of herbivores that ever lived.

2006-12-28 14:14:57 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

This will not affect global warning unless the Cows begin to fly.

Good Luck!
Happy New Year.....

2006-12-28 09:49:15 · answer #7 · answered by Stuart S 2 · 0 0

that is where all the oil is coming from now, all them dinosaurs and cows for millions of years and that methane gas converts to oil.

2006-12-28 09:52:50 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

THIS IS ANOTHER CASE OF STUPIDITY REIGNS AS LIBERAL FANTASY FLATULANCE

2006-12-28 09:51:56 · answer #9 · answered by Dave F 4 · 0 0

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