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]]> By: OSR http://openspacerestoration.com/cows-global-warming-and-the-art-of-moodoo-economics/comment-page-1/#comment-357 OSR Sun, 07 Jun 2009 00:50:10 +0000 http://openspacerestoration.com/?p=514#comment-357 Thank you for your contribution Harmon. Those are great points. Bart Thank you for your contribution Harmon. Those are great points.

Bart

]]> By: harmon http://openspacerestoration.com/cows-global-warming-and-the-art-of-moodoo-economics/comment-page-1/#comment-356 harmon Sat, 06 Jun 2009 18:40:11 +0000 http://openspacerestoration.com/?p=514#comment-356 thanks for the comparison of trees to cows. it is obviously difficult to make an accurate calculation of carbon and methane in an ecosystem. we raise 60 calves a year on 60 momma cows. the ones that go for beef eat grass and hay most of their lives. some get mostly corn (but some hay) the last 100 days before market. the grass finished catlle are on eating grass before they are "finished". there is no law that says they must be 21 months old. i think you may be confusing some grading standards, but i am not sure. most importantly, to simplify the carbon equation (whether CO2 or methane), I like to think of when the carbon is trapped and when it is released. Carbon that cows - I'll say it- fart, was captured from plants a few days or months ago. All told that can't be changing the greenhouse affect that much. Carbon released from fossill fuels, however, had been bound up and out of the carbon cycle for millions of years. As long as we unlock millions of years worth of carbon deposits in a matter of minutes, with each mile we drive or watt we burn, we will never balance the carbon cycle. by the way, our farm has thousands of trees. but we share those. thanks for the comparison of trees to cows. it is obviously difficult to make an accurate calculation of carbon and methane in an ecosystem.

we raise 60 calves a year on 60 momma cows.
the ones that go for beef eat grass and hay most of their lives. some get mostly corn (but some hay) the
last 100 days before market. the grass finished catlle are on eating grass before they are “finished”.

there is no law that says they must be 21 months old. i think you may be confusing some grading
standards, but i am not sure.

most importantly, to simplify the carbon equation (whether CO2 or methane), I like
to think of when the carbon is trapped and when it is released. Carbon that cows – I’ll say it- fart,
was captured from plants a few days or months ago. All told that can’t be changing the greenhouse affect that much. Carbon released from fossill fuels, however, had been bound up and out of the carbon cycle for millions of years. As long as we unlock millions of years worth of carbon deposits in a matter of minutes, with each mile we drive or watt we burn, we will never balance the carbon cycle.

by the way, our farm has thousands of trees. but we share those.

]]> By: OSR http://openspacerestoration.com/cows-global-warming-and-the-art-of-moodoo-economics/comment-page-1/#comment-344 OSR Wed, 20 May 2009 02:56:50 +0000 http://openspacerestoration.com/?p=514#comment-344 Steve, I agree the saribus is a great palm. Steve,
I agree the saribus is a great palm.

]]> By: OSR http://openspacerestoration.com/cows-global-warming-and-the-art-of-moodoo-economics/comment-page-1/#comment-343 OSR Wed, 20 May 2009 02:51:03 +0000 http://openspacerestoration.com/?p=514#comment-343 Thanks for your comments, I for one walk away knowing more than I started with. Thanks G Elliot, Xnor, and Hope for your input. Today in the US we have 90 million head of cattle. At their peak we had estimates of over 60 million buffalo roaming the Western United States, something or someone is foot printing carbon, be it buffalo, cattle, SUV's or volcanoes. Thanks for your comments, I for one walk away knowing more than I started with. Thanks G Elliot, Xnor, and Hope for your input. Today in the US we have 90 million head of cattle. At their peak we had estimates of over 60 million buffalo roaming the Western United States, something or someone is foot printing carbon, be it buffalo, cattle, SUV’s or volcanoes.

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