Cow burps are indeed part of the problem.
Shall we ask why there are so darn many cows?

: polishes vegetarian halo :

: hushes up carton of milk in the fridge :

I don't think burps are what he had in mind. :D

Maybe, but they burp a lot more methane than they fart.

Did you know, kangaroos eat the same food as cows, extract more nutrition per kilogram from it, and produce a tiny fraction of the methane? Boffins have traced this to the specific bacteria that live in kangaroos' guts, and are trying to get this to adapt to cows' guts. It could save money AND the planet... here's hoping.

Cool beans. Maybe we should all just start to have big Kangaroo farms and start to eat them. Get rid of the cows altogether.

I could see it now, heards of roos with dudes on horses running them up the plains.

I'm all for this. Cows' hard hooves do serious damage to the Australian flora, 'roos are much lower impact.

The only trouble is ownership. See, if you consider a mob of 'roos to be "yours", then you have to build fences to keep them in. BIG fences.

Current 'roo harvesting involves wild 'roos and sharpshooters with spotlights. No branding, de-horning, hormone treatment, anti-biotics, feed-lotting; just hoppity hoppity hoppity bang die.

Sounds sporting. Anyone of you guys ever eat one? How do they taste? I saw some folks eating some on one of those weird food shows a few nights back.

It was years and years ago, but IIRC it was okay but could be tough if overcooked. It's very low cholesterol though.
Emu is also legally edible but I can't remember having eaten it.
Yes, the only country (AFAIK) where we legally eat our Coat of Arms.

Crocodile .... delicious. Looks like fish, tastes like chicken. Very looonnnngg chicken. And from a vego perspective, might be passed off as self-defense.

I have eaten Emu. It is very good. Tastes like chicken. There are a number of mini farms that raise Emu in the US.

We can buy aligator tail in most of the seafood resturants and we buy it and cook it a few times each year for guests as a novelty. It is a bit tough, sort of like rattlesnake.

Roo meat is also very high in protien and low in other fats. It'd be no good to you if you like your meat well done though. It's like venison. Needs to be very rare to be edible. Either that or very slowly roasted.

My cousin is a roo shooter on the weekends. Apparently the Russians love it and are the main importers followed by Japan.

I predict the US will be the next big market for roo meat once those clowns at PETA get over it.

Damm Branson gained some serious weight. Must be due to global warming... that or because of Bush.

http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/03/...iness/deal.php

Seriously though, the capitalists with big money seeing a way to make more money, will make more progress than the governments.

Getting back to the science teacher' video, he should have had an economist help him with his graph. But like most alarmists, he expands on his point of view, while minimizing other factors. The economist's graph would look like this:
The list, however would start from the bottom, reading up.

And am I the only one to notice that global warming has expanded proportionately with the smaller number of pirate ships?

Too many unemployeed pirates now restricted to diets of only bake beans.

Record Snow in Alaska

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/...69856926.shtml