What about 737's using 750 gallons of fuel per hour then? Not as popular as blaming cows farting is it ?
'kin BBC and climate change.
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but driving to the piste is such a bore.......
Walk to the pub, surely ?
kp_n_plghng
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pretty frustrating to watch
kp_n_plghng
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they talk as if its the whole reason for climate change!
spin cycle
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Walk to the pub, surely ?
not if you stay in my holiday let
i wonder how much c02 was emitted by the import of that £2 t shirt
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Picture paints a thousand words
Far more polluting than some farting cows!
Far more polluting than some farting cows!
Rowland
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I saw it , one of the examples was a portion of beef is equivalent to x miles in a car .
Ok what sort of car how big is the engine how’s it been driven how much green house gas was produced in the manufacturing and sale of the car .
Ok what sort of car how big is the engine how’s it been driven how much green house gas was produced in the manufacturing and sale of the car .
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It was a typical Biased Broadcasting Corporaration report. The portions shown were quite small till they showed the beef which looked like a whole joint carved up
The BBc are coming out with some borderline cheapshot journalism now what with their biased Brexit reporting, their favourite Global Warming guff and digs at Agriculture once a fortnight. Is there any response from the NFU.? No bloody chance.It is very frustrating to watch and listen to their one sided point of view. Are not herbivores the reason why grasslands sequester so much carbon; help to contribute to an environment that many invertebrates thrive in as well as lots of fungi and wildlife?
Perhaps ,we as a species are far too numerous and our lifestyles are not compatable with a reduction in green house gases.
Why can the bbc not produce an informed and balanced news piece?
Perhaps ,we as a species are far too numerous and our lifestyles are not compatable with a reduction in green house gases.
Why can the bbc not produce an informed and balanced news piece?
marshbarn
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I think what you need to do is capture all those farts and sell em back to the airlines to run the plane engines on, problem solved.What about 737's using 750 gallons of fuel per hour then? Not as popular as blaming cows farting is it ?
Or stop feeding brewers grains and rotten apples to your cows
spin cycle
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right...thats it...i've filled in a form on bbc website challenging them to compare the co2 of my farm to theirs of being a journalist....watch this space
kp_n_plghng
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exactly what I thought and so what if its x amount of miles in a car what an idiotic way to compare things. Then they go and show pictures of vegan crap and say that is a better choice! Made me pretty mad.The portions shown were quite small till they showed the beef which looked like a whole joint carved up
Bogweevil
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What about 737's using 750 gallons of fuel per hour then? Not as popular as blaming cows farting is it ?
Wrong end - bovine burping not flatulence is the cause and it is methane that is emitted which is 34 times as potent a greenhouse gas as the carbon dioxide producer by engines including jets. 20% of global methane from cattle, 25% man-made global warming comes from methane. Just saying.
spin cycle
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but aircraft emmisions in higher atmosphere are more damaging
kp_n_plghng
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The difference is you eat a cow you don't eat a plane. As another member put it - "is it essential we fly to prague for a stag do"?
At least we get something we fundamentally need for those emissions and since we need to eat we better compare the output against an alternative food source before we go raving about the 5% contribution you mention. And we better look at the whole cycle too not just the emissions. I am by no means an expert but I hate when things are over simplified.
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When there's a news story overseas, the BBC seem to send reporters and their associated sound and camera men in their dozens to cover it
Get a hurricane New Orleans and suddenly the Beeb have more people there than in Salford. It's bad enough when then have to send Louise Minchin to London to report on Brexit as presumably, none of their London staff can get up before 7am!
Get a hurricane New Orleans and suddenly the Beeb have more people there than in Salford. It's bad enough when then have to send Louise Minchin to London to report on Brexit as presumably, none of their London staff can get up before 7am!