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The Good Stuff
Good
News
Less
Gas
Sheep
Gunson, Christopher
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Reducing
the Gas
Global
warming is disturbingly enhanced by the gaseous emissions from sheep and
cattle. Australian scientists might have the solution.
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"The
scientific method," Thomas Henry Huxley once wrote,
"is
nothing but the normal working of the human
mind."
That
is to say, when the mind is working;
that
is to say further, when it is engaged in correcting its
mistakes.
Neil
Postman
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Reducing
the Gas
Australia’s
CSIRO (Commonwealth
Scientific & Industrial Research Organisation) is testing a
vaccine that reduces methane production in sheep.
Methane is breathed out by sheep and cattle as part of
their normal digestive process. It is 23 times more potent (and therefore more damaging) in
its global warming capabilities than carbon dioxide, and is estimated
to currently contribute about 12 per cent of Australia's total
greenhouse gas emissions.
It
is estimated that a single sheep will emit approximately seven
kilos of gas per year, while methane emissions from cattle can
range from 60-114 kilos per head, per year.
For
more
information: CSIRO
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Dead End
Van Dijk, Ans
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