2007-02-09 05:52:51 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Environment
cows and ruminants pass methane gas,
which is a "greenhouse gas" and contributes to climate change (not ozone)..
apparently their farts account for 19% (!) of all methane emmissions
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methane
2007-02-09 06:02:56 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The O Zone? Cows stay pretty much still. The wind passes them. Sometimres there is no wind and the cows share farting between each other. None of this affects us if we stay up wind. It's a rural myth.
2007-02-09 05:58:08 · answer #2 · answered by Harriet 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
NO. Ozone depletion is caused by complex chlorofluorocarbons that float above the protective layer of the atmosphere and are broken down by radiation from the sun. There are no such chlorofluorocarbons in cows, nor do not generate them.
Cow flatulence contains methane, which was implicated in global warming--a completely different thing from ozone depletion.
Bottom line: cows can fart all day long and our blue protective ozone layer will be fine.
2007-02-09 06:08:11 · answer #3 · answered by maxnull 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
No - not the ozone - its global warming. Cow farts are full of methane, a powerful green house gas eight times as efficient at trapping heat as CO2.
2007-02-10 01:53:20 · answer #4 · answered by Moebious 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes.
And according to the below link:
Cows don't emit 400 quarts of flatulence a day. According to Professor Johnson, they emit 400 quarts' worth of burps, known in polite circles as eructation. The Post, in other words, doesn't know one end of a cow from the other! And this is the paper that broke Watergate--although, to be fair, I don't suppose they assign their top reportorial resources to the cow burp beat.
http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a4_176.html
2007-02-09 06:03:02 · answer #5 · answered by TeeDawg 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Absolutely. Recent research has shown cows to be major contributors of greenhouse gases (methane, in their case) to the atmosphere.
2007-02-09 06:01:41 · answer #6 · answered by Jazz In 10-Forward 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Methane is a very light gas so how can u say that there millions of cubic ft. floating around up there. Tell me how u measure it not someones guess. I happen to know whatever methane that was up there is not. Where did it go????
2007-02-09 08:57:09 · answer #7 · answered by JOHNNIE B 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
cows produce the most methane gas which adds to the ozone
2007-02-10 01:58:51 · answer #8 · answered by k-a man! 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
they release methane gas when they pass wind, and if in large enough quantities, methane gas can break up ozone (O3), along with enough heat to catalyze the reaction.
2007-02-09 06:00:20 · answer #9 · answered by Falcon Man 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I don't see why methane is a problem, its a fuel. And a good one. Why don't all farmers shove bottles up their cow's a***'s
Problem solved.
2007-02-09 08:53:02 · answer #10 · answered by ukcufs 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋