Fuckin' A, does that cow have a jet pack? That's fuckin hella! Where's my jet pack cow? I'll ride that bitch to the laundromat fuckin' space cowboy style, yeah. Yeehaow! And those cow garter belts are HOT!
So, you can look here to see one patent for a cow fart collector, that will save the world, because apparently cow farts = arnie geddon. http://www.treehugger.com/files/2006/05/patent_issued_f.php
So we have that whole HUMAN CAUSED GLOBAL WARMING THING that broad scientific consensus confirms. Especially important is that "human caused" bit.
But everywhere I look, people are denying it. And somehow a lot of them are using this FOX "news" cow thing as some sort of proof. For an example, look at a recent story at Slashdot where dozens of folks cited this FOX story about cows. Here's one example:
"Who can even make heads or tails of all this global warming stuff? We get reports like this, within a day of getting reports like cows cause more greenhouse gases than cars, planes, and all other forms of transportation put together [foxnews.com]"
Yeah there was a bit like that in a UN report, but then right wing news orgs take it all out of context and use it like: "gee folks, what are these environmentalists thinking, cows are worse for the environment than we are! Stupid scientists!" And the worse is FOX "news" who ran the story with citations to OTHER RIGHT WING NEWS GROUPS creating a profound echo chamber of dumb.
What the UN report really said was that the WHOLE of industrialized bovine agriculture, when you figure in LAND USE ISUES (for example clear cutting of rain forest in South America and Africa and other land conversion issues) and industrial processing and feeding and shipping and such accounts for 9% of global CO2 emissions. Which is slightly bigger than some average car DRIVING emissions numbers....
Cow farts my ass.
AND, seriously though, US style industrial agriculture is a MAJOR bad problem for a dozen reasons, to play it up as "gee folks cow farts hardy har," really gets my goat.
Thursday, December 14, 2006
"No, you're the cow fart" "No, YOU'RE..."
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My brother-in-law buys into pretty much every fundie, far-right-wing line of thinking, including the fact that human-caused global warming is just a lie that those crazy liberals use to push their Marxist agendas. He knows that I disagree with him on pretty much everything. But, every once in a while, he includes me on these e-mail forwards that he just HAS to know will get me riled up. I haven't taken his bait and will instead rant in your cozy comments section. : )
So... my BIL forwards an article from Car and Driver Magazine (a publication with a long reputation of significant contributions to the various Earth Sciences, and obviously without any sort of bias on the issue of vehicle emissions), where the columnist (his credentials? He's former Indy 500 driver, natch) rips into Gore's documentary, An Inconvenient Truth. I guess because it came out on DVD, and came up in this guy's Netflix que because Talladega Nights: The Ballad Of Ricky Bobby was all out of stock.
(incidentally, the article is on their website, I just can't be bothered to find the link right now.)
In the article, this guy builds a nice little strawman of half-truths that he tears down instead of collecting actual, you know.... facts... and making a legitimate argument.
I won't get into details because this is long enough already, but check it ouuuut sometime if you feel like getting pissed off again.
Anyway, that's my long-winded way of saying that I'm grumpy about this topic lately, too. ; )
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