As one of those scientists I can confirm that greenhouse gases form all known sources are taken into consideration including methane production from cattle, mineral exploitation and flaring.

The cattle won’t cause visible smogs as methane is an invisible gas, what you may be seeing is water vapour, especially when the weather is cold.

Enteric fermantation (cattle burping and farting) is the primary causes of methane and anually it’s the equivalent of approx 1.5 billion tons of CO2 (4% of the global carbon equivalence emission). Mineral extraction, including oil wells and flaring, produces the carbon equivalent of approx 800 million tons of CO2 annually (2% of total).

These figures, along with many, many others, are quantified and accounted for when modelling.

CO2 is the primary anthropogenic greenhouse gas, this is where the media and policy makers like to focus their attention; it can give the misleading impression that it’s the only greenhouse gas.

What you’re smelling are sulfur and nitrogen compounds. Of course, there’s methane, but your nose can’t detect it.

and a couple of sofas.

gw is going to remove money and freedom from people. that’s the only consequence.

if we believe the “experts”, we’re supposed to have famines, death, and parts of the world be uninhabitable due to man…..

….by the year 2000.

but global cooling never happened. even though the “irrefutable data collected over “30 years was proof it was occurring”.

remember not ONE of the predictions made since the 60′s has came to pass.

but global warming is “real”.

methane is the 3rd most important gas in the greenhouse effect (due to low concentration) with water being first and co2 second.

Just in case you still aren’t sure–here’s proof it’s nonsense: Granted there are tens of millions of cattle around. BUT–before the rise of our industrial civilization and the colonization of regions like North America and Africa–there were fare MORE large grass eating animals (American buffalo, African wildebeast, etc.) than there are domestic cattle today. But the current global warming did not start until after all those populations of wild grass-eaters were decimated.

You know, I dig soy milk, and tofu in my smoothies and in a morning scramble, but it doesn’t replace my love for a good juicy grass fed organic beef burger. I think we’re looking in the wrong direction if we want our environment to improve.

Pesticides, herbicides, antibiotics, farm-raised fish. Our government, FDA and FTC is telling us this is all safe. Say what? Since when has the government EVER approved something that truly cured, helped and healed ANYTHING? That’s not what pays their mortgages and sends their kids to private school.

We push our farmers to grow more meat on less land. What happens? Mad Cow, soil erosion, water pollution to the point our earth cannot filter it, the need for antibiotics to treat unnatural illnesses in the animals, herbicides for the grain, pesticides for the bugs-good AND bad. Give those farmers more land to grow healthy meat for those who want it and cite the restaurants who show irresponsibility in what they provide the public. That’s what’s killing us and our environment.

I agree we use too much of everything. Look at restaurants. Are they calling them to decrease the portion sizes from 4 chicken breasts to just 1? No. Are they eliminating the conventionally grown foods to provide us with healthy, pesticide free organic alternatives? No. You know why? Because then our nation would get thin and off all the Rx drugs, then we’d have to start a tax to subsidize the poor out of work “Rx drug cartels”.

Who’s with me???