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Just spotted this in the newest edition of the UCSD Guardian as a shining example of your state-subsidized education dollars at work (second item):
Study cites cow belching as source of pollutionI would have hated to be the poor graduate student that was responsible for collecting the samples from their control group.....Hey Carl - it's time to get this mornings samples. Here's the jar.
Cow manure may not be as bad for California’s air as previously thought, a first-of-its-kind UC Davis study has found. In fact, cows, much maligned for their contribution of greenhouse-effect-causing methane gas, actually produce only half the amount of the state’s air pollution previously attributed to them.
Perhaps most important, the majority of a dairy cow’s contribution to smog comes not from her manure but from her belching, the university’s scientists said.
“Our discovery means our whole approach to dairy waste management and air-emissions management might change,” stated UC Davis air-quality specialist Frank Mitloehner, who conducted the study. “For the most tightly regulated pollutants, the 700 ozone-forming gases collectively called ‘volatile organic compounds,’ the source is not the cows’ waste. It’s the cows.”
The study was to be presented to the California Air Resource Board at its Jan. 26 meeting in Fresno, Calif.
That's the great thing about UC Davis: it's one of the few schools that sells shit-stomping overshoes in the bookstore.
Oh Gawd...
This, after they've already been blaming cow FARTS for damage to the ozone layer
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Oh Gawd...
|| Posted by Stevie, February 2, 2005 10:57 AM ||This, after they've already been blaming cow FARTS for damage to the ozone layer for years...
Especially when it's soooo obvious that the biggest source of hot, empty, life-damaging air is arguing politics.
(And, if yer thinking that that last bit is referring to something else, maybe... you're right.
*yawn*)