If cattle are so bad, what about the bison (Global Warming Issue)?

Question

Before the hunting of the 1800's depleted the American bison so badly, they were the most numerous single species of large wild mammal on Earth (estimated at 30 million in 1800). The USA currently only has an approx. pop. of 45 million domesticated cattle. There are no cattle total pop. estimates for the 1800's, so I'm just comparing the numbers of one species to the entire current USA domesticated numbers.

If "livestock are a major emitter of greenhouse gases that cause climate change" why didn't they see any sign of it in the 1800's?

Note: I believe global warming to be a solar caused phenomenon affecting all planets, not caused by anything happening here on Earth.

Sources:
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0220/p03s01-ussc.html
http://www.aphis.usda.gov/lpa/issues/bse/bse-surveillance.html
The Destruction of the Bison, by Andrew C. Isenberg
http://www.russiablog.org/2007/03/russian_astronomer_points_to_g.php

Re-post due to lack of response in Weather section.

Gimpalom -
You totally missed the point. My arguement is to show the ridiculousness of blaming the global warming issue on humans.

Answer 1

Cattle used to roam Alaska, too. Lot's of 'em.

But now they've been replaced by the herds of ManBearPigs.

http://www.comedycentral.com/sitewide/media_player/play.jhtml?itemId=62979

Answer 2

Sir, you are not making sense. Please allow me; I will try to make some for you. I just checked the satellite returns of average global temperature for 1800 and I am sorry to have to report, there are none! See what I mean?

There is no way the population of the planet could have established anything remotely resembling an average temperature in 1800. ABSOLUTELY NO WAY and the best scientist can do is an educated guess.

BTW, you didn't address the growth hormones and forced feeding of cattle. In addition there are more than just cattle. There are pigs, goats, sheep, llamas, alpacas and others as well as countless dogs and cats. And my god don’t forget those damn little methane generators we call chickens. The bottom line is animal life produces over 18% of the "problem" gases and man and all his transportation is less than 14%. Now that comes from a real scientist, not a former Vice President with no science training and a tax raising agenda and a desire to lower Americans standard of living to that of a country where all god's children wear loin clothes.

I was around in the 50's when I could see the mountains, the 60's when I could still see the mountains but had to have crap on my car that cut the economy in half. Then came the 70's when the world was going to freeze solid by the end of the decade. Am I making my point? I have watched a hand full of "scientists", "environmentalists" and liberals stir this whole planet so many times that I don't even listen any more. It is politics, not science. And it is about power to control your life and mine. It has nothing to do with saving the human race.

Answer 3

I think because of the cumulative effect of so many things on earth that are causing global warming, not just one thing by itself.

So, maybe you had the 30 million bison, but nobody was cutting down all the rain forests, and nobody was making all the pollution from cars, manufacturing, small equipment, all kinds of things that add up.

Now, you have everything working together, and it's causing things to heat up. Then the oceans start to get warmer, sea plankton diminishing, so less oxygen, more warming, less food at the bottom of the chain & polar caps melting... etc..

Answer 4

the criters are part of the problem. and were in the mini ice age also.
The main thing that causes globel warming is nature.
So maybe we should deleate all things natural.

Oh to hell with it get ready for the comming ice age that will soon follow the heat cycle