Having been subjected to a phone survey about agriculture and global warming I thought we could conduct our own survey.
The question is …Do you think emissions of methane from livestock contribute to global warming?
This will be on the website until the 7th July and you can make your comments in the comments box, you will need to register first, this won’t take long. The more comments we have the better, we might even be able to get it on the news.
This survey will stay up for only one week so do it now to avoid missing out.
Alan Sutherland says
Methane does not cause global warming. Methane breaks down in the atmosphere and new methane emissions are merely replacing the old. Just because methane takes 8-10 years to break down is no justification to impose fiscal years in the measurement. Having broken down, methane releases CO2 which helps the grass grow which feeds the cows – a self sustaining cycle.
Because a farmer looks after a large area of land, it is quite likely that carbon sequestration exceeds emissions. And a farmer’s produce (including its carbon) is almost all exported from the farm, so by this measure the farm is carbon negative.
Some are trying to punish farmers with a one sided analysis, All carbon in produce is the responsibilty of the farm, the fossils fuels used belong to the farm even though this is someone else’s “produce”, farm sequestration is ignored and overlayed over all this is fiscal year accounting. Its about time that someone subjected this scenario to some proper research.
Brian Taylor says
NO, Definitly not
Felix says
We only have a third of our property in grass. The rest is for carbon production, so how can our cattle create more methane than we absorb. Lots of farmers have not only grass, but also orchards and wood lots.
This should be taken into consideration too.
Cheers
Felix
Dennis Pabirowski says
No. Long term it does not contribute to global warming. I understand we are going through a global cooling stage. Does that mean livestock have suddenly reduced their methane output? I think not!
Once real scientific theories come to the fore and replace the self driven and exploited garbage, then a reversal of international brainwashing may be achieved.
Christine says
No. Moreover, what we really need is some serious research into the carbon sequestration properties of pasture.
Chris says
Definitely not.
Chris says
No. Livestock only emit what they have already eaten, so where is the increase?
Barrie Gibson says
Definitely not
Barrie Gibson says
Definitely No
Keith Menefy says
Methane is such a tiny percentage of the atmosphere it is hard to believe it can contribute to anything, let alone global warming. At 1.7 parts per million it is virtually nonexistent. Really toxic poisons like arsenic and cyanide are harmless at that percentage, (although I am not going to try to prove that).
To try to link methane to man made global warming really shows that the whole thing is an elaborate scam.
Roger Jones says
If methan contributes to global wwarming then the bilions of people eating vegetables must be contributing also. The world has had global warming many times before and before people or livestock. Sun flares and sun spots and the distance of the earth from the sun cause global warming.
They say methane and CO2 trap the suns rays in and cause the earth to warm up.
Rubbish! The cooler days are the cloudy days.
fraser says
NO. methane from livestock is part of a naturally occuring cycle. if we are going to argue about the pluses or minuses, what about the meat ,wool ,leather and milk produced from these animals, most of which is exported from this country to be in the human body for up to 100 years.
if mans total greenhouse gas emitions are 2% of the total greenhouse emitions for this planet . less than 1/2 the world is comited to a 10% reduction. how much change are we really going to make.
thats if greenhouse gases have any impact on [climate change] ???
hasnt the world average temp been dropping for the last 10 years consecutively.
definitely an interesting subject.
Russell says
No. It doesn’t contribute to climate change.
ian says
Whole facade is a load of rubbish. Agreat ingenious way that our lovely leaders have devised to take even more money from the working class. My training in process control engineering tells me that this is a natural recurring cycle that the earth must go through in order to control its own temperature. This is not an excuse to dump our existence onto the environment. We must make a colective effort to mitigate any effects that our businesses do have. This is political research that is designed by the politicians to achieve an outcome that they want. We know what that outcome is and that is the problem.