The Political Page, T+318 -- December 5, 2017: Answer To An Earlier Pop Quiz -- Dairy Cows

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Later, 5:24 p.m. Central Time: another reader wrote:

Well, I knew those poor Holstein cows were going to get blamed.

This article says faulty meters in CA spew 6.6  Bcf of methane a year.

Most folks will get blocked out of the linked article, but if you can get to it, it provides more information on this nonsense. If you are blocked out and are interested in the article let me know.

Later, 4:57 p.m. Central Time: see first comment --Before dairy farm there were millions of buffalos roaming the country and mammoths, sabretooth tigers, wolves, deer, elk and other very large mammals. I guess they didn't make methane or maybe if they did might have cause the end of the last ice age:)so was that good or bad if they did! The globalist new religion is "green" and "mother-earth" is their god, oh wait "they-earth", whatever!

How many buffalo were there before the Industrial Age? Estimates of bison numbers vary from 30 to 75 million. 50,000,000 to 60,000,000 are the most common numbers cited as total buffalo population in the early 1800s. 

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Illegal border crossings. Based on arrests, number of illegal immigrants streaming across the "southern border" is at a 46-year low ... and as far as I can tell, most Americans are doing just fine without an illegal immigrant doing their yard work or working farms in California.

This story is from the BBC so you know it has to be true. Many, many data points at the linked article.

Methane emissions: speaking of California -- back to that question asked the other day. This is the answer to an earlier pop quiz in which we asked what is the number one source of California's methane emissions: dairy cattle.

From Bloomberg via Rigzone:

Methane is responsible for about a quarter of human-generated global warming. While it's not nearly as prevalent as carbon dioxide, and it breaks down in the atmosphere faster, methane is many times more effective than CO2 at trapping heat. And avoiding a man-made climate catastrophe will require limiting emissions from farms as well as oil and gas pipelines, landfills, and other sources.

In California, most methane emissions are from cows -- chiefly the state's 1.7 million dairy cows, whose manure is typically washed into methane-spewing lagoons. This is why the state, which has pledged to reduce methane emissions by 40 percent by 2030, is looking to the big Central Valley dairy farms for substantial reductions.

Wow, the hyperbole never quits ... to avoid a man-made climate catastrophe. Well, at least folks reminding us about cattle farts keeps our collective minds off nuclear waste. And North Korea. And volcanoes. 

Why doesn't California simply mandate that California dairy producers barn their cows in Nevada? It works for coal. Or ship the manure to Nevada by rail -- maybe a spur off the "bullet train" route.