Something to ponder while you are up tonight lol.
Cow Farts
- Bovine Gases contribute to Global Warming
When cows burp and fart they emit the greenhouse gas, methane, which, along with CO2 are the 2 major man-made accelerants of Global Warming. An average cow produces an unbelievable 600 liters of methane a day. With 1.3 billion domesticated cattle on Earth (100 million in the US alone) it is no surprise that constant burping and farting by livestock is the chief global source of methane released into the atmosphere, according to the EPA. The atmospheric concentration of methane has more than doubled in the last 200 years due to industrialization and modern agriculture, thus magnifying the Greenhouse effect. What?s worse is that methane is capable of trapping 25 times more heat than CO2, and will account for 17 percent of Global Warming over the next 50 years. While CO2 emissions can persist for over a century, methane only lasts a decade. Thus, reducing methane emissions will have a more immediate impact on Global Warming.
-Possible Solutions
Our best way to slow down Global warming in the near future is targeting the gas that could make the biggest differences, in the fastest times. That gas is methane because it breaks down the quickest of all the greenhouse gases and is responsible for a large portion of the Global Warming process. Some possible means of reducing methane emissions currently being explored are developing genetically engineered ?low gas? cattle; specialized feeds such as garlic which reduce methane pollution that come from cows; and food additives (pills) which reduce burps and farts in cows.