From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of ShempMcGurk Sent: Sunday, February 14, 2010 9:47 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: The jig is up! Phil Jones confesses! --- In [email protected] <mailto:FairfieldLife%40yahoogroups.com> , Vaj <vajradh...@...> wrote: > > > On Feb 14, 2010, at 6:38 PM, ShempMcGurk wrote: > > > You really do want 10s of millions of people to die from this global warming thing, don't you, Rick? > > > > Why are you so attached to such tenuous science? Isn't it a hint to you that governments are behind the funding of all the research that shows there to be global warming? And questionable politicians such as Al Gore? > > > I've been watching the "hockey stick" develop since 1978. It's certainly more than "tenuous", esp. with China and India (and whatever other countries "go industrial") just adding to the atmospheric soup, pushing Siberia and your home countries' permafrost into thaw mode. > > It's that huge methane blast that could be the end of most of us. >
Interesting that you blame "methane". Let's assume for a minute that you are right. The bulk of methane emissions, as this layman understands it, comes from the livestock industry. Well, if Al Gore and rest of the hokums were REALLY serious about stopping global warming they would advocate for the slaughter, tomorrow, of ALL of the Earth's livestock, or at least those in the U.S, because it is their farting that is causing the methane emissions. Not only would this cut down on methane emissions but save our water table to a great degree and feed MORE of the world peoples because the cow-as-middle-man between grain and human is cut out (about 10 lbs. of grain is consumed by cows to make 1 lb. of edible meat) and more can be fed with the grain. This can all be done within, literally, a few months...and at relatively little cost. But changing the transporation infrastructures of the world would take...well, we see how difficult that is. So I take the global warming alarmists with a HUGE grain of salt. Easy solution, but NONE of them ever suggest it. And I would be all for it and I don't even believe in the global warming cult. > A lot of it depends on how well, if at all, the geosphere is able to mimic the human body and recover a la the Gaia hypothesis and some sort of planetary homeostasis. But most scientists are realistic and barring some miracle, know this is highly unlikely. > > It could be that Al Gore is one of the greatest bodhisattvas of our age. You make a somewhat valid point here Shemp. Elimination of meat eating would have a huge impact on the global warming problem, although only about 28% of methane produced by human activities results from livestock: http://www.epa.gov/rlep/faq.html#1 A much bigger source of methane, which Vaj mentioned, will be the melting of the permafrost. There's also a lot starting to bubble up from the bottoms of the oceans as water temperatures rise.
