Joe Street wrote: > Well there may be something to this. It may not be the main source of > greenhouse gas but IIRC methane is 6 times more potent as a greenhouse > gas than CO2 and there are a lot of cows being grown to serve the > north american obsession with beef. And they do fart a hell of a lot! > Consider also that the lion's share of oxygen comes not from trees as > many a tree hugger has suggested but from algae in the sea. Tiny > bubbles..... Well I have heard that more methane is released by > termites than any other single source. Is this information > debunkable? I'd like to know. > > Joe
According to this page: http://www.uwsp.edu/geo/faculty/ritter/geog101/textbook/atmosphere/atmospheric_composition_p2.html termites are responsible for 20 to 40% of atmospheric methane. doug -- Contentment comes not from having more, but from wanting less. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * This email is constructed entirely with OpenSource Software. No Microsoft databits have been incorporated herein. All existing databits have been constructed from recycled databits. _______________________________________________ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
