California targets dairy cows to combat global warming

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California targets dairy cows to combat global warming

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(AP) — California is taking its fight against global warming to the farm. The nation's leading agricultural state is now targeting greenhouse gases produced by dairy cows and other livestock.

Despite strong opposition from farmers, Gov. Jerry Brown signed legislation in September that for the first time regulates heat-trapping gases from livestock operations and landfills.

Cattle and other farm animals are major sources of methane, a greenhouse gas many times more potent than carbon dioxide as a heat-trapping gas. Methane is released when they belch, pass gas and make manure.

"If we can reduce emissions of methane, we can really help to slow global warming," said Ryan McCarthy, a science advisor for the California Air Resources Board, which is drawing up rules to implement the new law........
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When they become a business and thus taxation desert... will anyone be surprised.

I know there are good people in CA, but F those political wingnuts and their feeeewwwings.

Why not just put a collector over the methane and use it to power a steam turbine to make electricity. Organic methane generated electricity should be a hippies wet dream.
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I think hippies are against more electricity generation, except for solar. They love them some solar, probably because there's no emissions.
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I'm surprised they're not against solar because manufacturing them involves mining, plastics and placing the cells in a way to deny all of the sunlight to whatever is underneath them.

And of course, wind is bad because dead birdies and infrasound effects on people living nearby.

That's why I'm happy with coal and nuclear power. It angers the right people.
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...and this is why I support CALEXIT
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And this is why I expect the production of California cheese, especially cheddar, to decline sharply. :mrgreen:
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You know what else contributes to global warming, C(Y)A politicians? A bunch of artists dying in a warehouse fire.
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The really sad thing is that this means somewhere high in the California state govt. is someone who thinks he is so powerful he can tell a cow how much she is allowed to fart.
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