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This is what happens when intelligent folks don't biatch slap stupid folk for opening their mouths. Did somebody say,"Who is John Galt", :lol:

California regulates cow farts

 

GALT, Calif. (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 adviser for the California Air Resources Board, which is drawing up rules to implement the new law.

Livestock are responsible for 14.5 percent of human-induced greenhouse gas emissions, with beef and dairy production accounting for the bulk of it, according to a 2013 United Nations report.

Since the passage of its landmark global warming law in 2006, California has been reducing carbon emissions from cars, trucks, homes and factories, while boosting production of renewable energy.

In the nation's largest milk-producing state, the new law aims to reduce methane emissions from dairies and livestock operations to 40 percent below 2013 levels by 2030, McCarthy said. State officials are developing the regulations, which take effect in 2024.

"We expect that this package ... and everything we're doing on climate, does show an effective model forward for others," McCarthy said.

The dairy industry could be forced to move production to states and countries with fewer regulations, leading to higher emissions globally, Sousa said.

"We think it's very foolish for the state of California to be taking this position," said Rob Vandenheuvel, general manager for the Milk Producers Council. "A single state like California is not going to make a meaningful impact on the climate."

Regulators are looking for ways to reduce so-called enteric emissions — methane produced by bovine digestive systems. That could eventually require changes to what cattle eat.

But the biggest target is dairy manure, which accounts for about a quarter of the state's methane emissions.

State regulators want more farmers to reduce emissions with methane digesters, which capture methane from manure in large storage tanks and convert the gas into electricity.

The state has set aside $50 million to help dairies set up digesters, but farmers say that's not nearly enough to equip the state's roughly 1,500 dairies.

New Hope Dairy, which has 1,500 cows in Sacramento County, installed a $4 million methane digester in 2013, thanks to state grants and a partnership with California Biogas LLC, which operates the system to generate renewable power for the Sacramento Municipal Utility District.

Co-owner Arlin Van Groningen, a third-generation farmer, says he couldn't afford one if he had to buy and run it himself.

"The bottom line is it's going to negatively impact the economics of the California dairy industry," Van Groningen said of the new law. "In the dairy business, the margins are so slim that something like this will force us out of state."

State officials say they're committed to making sure the new regulations work for farmers and the environment.

"There's a real opportunity here to get very significant emissions reductions at fairly low cost, and actually in a way that can bring economic benefits to farmers," Ryan said.

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California's brain deficient voters just approved by a small margin an obtusely worded ballot proposition to ban grocery store plastic bags and force us to pay 10 cents per paper bag.  But I've saved plastic bags and offer them free to anyone willing to tie them over the head of our total nut job legislators.  THAT would eliminate the worst source of pollution in this once great state.  Best hope:  send all illegals from the other 49 to CA, close the CA border, and give it back to Mexico. 

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1 hour ago, Xtaxguy said:

California's brain deficient voters just approved by a small margin an obtusely worded ballot proposition to ban grocery store plastic bags and force us to pay 10 cents per paper bag.  But I've saved plastic bags and offer them free to anyone willing to tie them over the head of our total nut job legislators.  THAT would eliminate the worst source of pollution in this once great state.  Best hope:  send all illegals from the other 49 to CA, close the CA border, and give it back to Mexico. 

:bravo::bravo::bravo:

I use to live in Redwood City back in the 70's (back in the Patty Hurst days) and it was stupid then and had to leave it behind I cant imagine how much stupider it has gotten since I left. Maybe if I woulda stayed I woulda made a difference there but who am I kidding :lol:.

 

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7 hours ago, Xtaxguy said:

California's brain deficient voters just approved by a small margin an obtusely worded ballot proposition to ban grocery store plastic bags and force us to pay 10 cents per paper bag.  But I've saved plastic bags and offer them free to anyone willing to tie them over the head of our total nut job legislators.  THAT would eliminate the worst source of pollution in this once great state.  Best hope:  send all illegals from the other 49 to CA, close the CA border, and give it back to Mexico. 

It's insanity, alright.

Apparently they're admitting that cow farts are making them mental...:eek:....

and it shows at their polls.

They're nuts !

Just make sure that evil insane tool nancy Pelosi is there before we slam the door shut !

That mental-deficient kook has been free-rangin' long enough.

Time she was locked away in the Kalifornia Mental State forever !

 

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IMHO the reasons the "idiots" came up with this plan in the first place is as best I recall a study was done to demonstrate that "Global Warming"(now called climate change after the Arctic Freezes that occurred) was a hoax... the results of that study revealed that the methane produced by the various species of "bovine" animals around the world had more of an effect on the Ozone layer than all of the man-made sources combined....perhaps some of our DV sleuths will remember or locate a link to it....:lmao:

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That's how we remember it, too, EAGLE....

 

Every time they get called out for their stupid climate crap, they build yet another

Trojan horse, mount it and try riding it over the finish line -- again.

 

Animals of all kinds have been farting their way across the global landscape for thousands of years,

to hear them tell it, just because we put 'em in a barn or fenced 'em in, NOW IT'S A HAZARD...?

 

Ya can't fix 'stupid'.  <_<

And to prove it, the left just re-elected that moron nancy Pelosi to be their mouthpiece Again !

What a dream come true for Trump and the final nail in the coffin of what used to pass for the dem party.

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