Bizarre non-medical news: Moose farts and global warming

August 22, 2007

Moose farts are partly responsible for the climate change:

Norway is concerned that its national animal, the moose, is harming the climate by emitting an estimated 2,100 kilos of carbon dioxide a year through its belching and farting.

Norwegian newspapers, citing research from Norway’s technical university, said a motorist would have to drive 13,000 kilometers in a car to emit as much CO2 as a moose does in a year.

Tell that to Al Gore. (via Instapundit)



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{ 4 comments }

1 Ed August 22, 2007 at 11:54 am

Mynd you, a moose fart can be pretty nasty.

2 Evan August 22, 2007 at 12:30 pm

Or actually examine the facts. Moose have been alive and on earth for a long time.

Moose have not changed.

Therefore the amount of carbon moose are putting in the atmosphere is not a contributor to any increase in the global CO2 content.

See how easy it is when you use your brain?

3 Anonymous August 22, 2007 at 7:46 pm

Cars have not been around for a long time and yet the climate has been cycling for a long time. No cars were around when Greenland once had forests. Put that in your brain

Another thing, we don’t put any CO2 in the air that wasn’t there before. The carbon in fossil fuels came from the atmosphere.

4 Catron August 22, 2007 at 9:39 pm

Maybe someone should send a couple of shiploads of Beano up there.

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