There is an interesting article from the UK’s “Times Online” which states that an adult moose emits enough methane from both ends in a single year to cause more damage to the atmosphere than an 8000 mile car trip. The article is titled Moose With Wind Are Worse Than Gas Guzzlers. It indicates that the methane a single adult moose emits is equivalent to 2100 kg of CO2.
This was going to be the main theme of this essay, until I began doing some more research. (Thank goodness. My daughter loves moose).
I started doing some digging on the effects of methane and CO2 on the atmosphere since everyone is screaming about we mere humans destroying the planet with our SUV’s. I have searched the web extensively on this subject, and I was surprised to learn this morning that I missed this web site.
It’s called “CO2 Science”. How I missed this up until now is confounding since it should have been the first place I found by doing a simple search. But I digress…
What the authors on this site are saying should be of interest to anyone who is tired of the anthropogenic global warming hysterics. An excerpt:
Actually, the ice core data do not strengthen the climate-alarmist claim that we should be concerned about greenhouse gas-induced global warming, and for two different reasons. We discussed the first of these reasons in our Editorial of 30 Nov 2005, where we indicated that the ice core data: (1) clearly demonstrate the important role of climate in CO2 regulation, but (2) provide no evidence for the inverse relationship, i.e., a regulation of climate by CO2. Here, we discuss the second reason.
I have been arguing for quite some time that CO2 elevations have historically followed warming temperatures rather than causing them, and this website validates my assertion magnificently. But they go even further in dispelling the alarmists’ claims that we are heating up the planet simply by driving our cars. To wit:
Consider these two observations together. Since the time of occurrence of the peak temperature of the past 400,000 years, the concentrations of the two most powerful greenhouse gases in the atmosphere (outside of water vapor) – CO2 and methane – have increased by approximately a third and 2.5-fold, respectively; yet earth’s temperature has actually dropped … and by a full 3°C! Clearly, the only thing we have to fear about CO2- and methane-induced global warming is fear itself, plus the climate alarmists and politicians who are trying to convince the world that black is white, and white black, and who are succeeding very nicely in that endeavor.
The obvious message they are conveying is that in light of the incredibly high concentrations of CO2 and methane, the planet should be one hell of a lot hotter than it is and yet…well, I don’t have to tell you, do I?
So unless you’re a hunter or you simply hate moose, don’t go running out on a search and destroy mission just yet. The moose are not destroying the planet any more than we are. My daughter will be delighted.
-Woody
