typical example of a BS argument applied to confuse uneducated people :

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what caused those? Latest report I read shows that "COWS" not man emits more damaging gas (methane) that all of the fossil fuel burning means of transportation etc put together. SO LETS EAT THE COWS!!!


Methane is a burnable gaz and as such will not be emitted by any significant quantities by internal combustion engines as, of course, those will BURN the gas before it gets to the exhaust.

Fossil fuels predominantly exhaust CO2 which, together with methane, is one of those greenhouse gases. In affect both cows and cars produce quantities of green house gases but only of different kinds.

With uneducatedness like this going around, any scientific discussion with the larger populace is useless. And any easy to understand "science" will get thrown out because the people who don't understand any more complex will quote some scientifics who says that it is "fast and loose"

Nice situation to be in.

Wouter


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