For a humorous take on international global warming alarmism, check out this piece in the American Spectator. One excerpt:
[E]nvironmental ministers from 187 nations gathered in Poland this month to talk about a new treaty to fight global warming in a conference that was scheduled prior to the snowball fights on Bourbon Street.
Farm flatulence and belching will be “one of the main issues” on the agenda in Poland, reported the New York Times, explaining that “the trillions of farm animals around the world generate 18 percent of the emissions that are raising global temperatures, according to United Nations estimates, more than from cars, buses and airplanes.”
Going into this year’s Thanksgiving and Christmas holiday season, the USDA reported that frozen ham stocks in the U.S. totaled 160.5 million pounds, only about 2.2 million pounds below the record high pre-holiday figure for that date of 162.66 million pounds.
To control our carbon footprint, says Dr. [Rajendra Pachauri, head of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change], we should “reduce meat consumption.” A good world-saving lunch would be an internationally sanctioned broccoli burger, minus the cheese, unless we can find some zero-emitting heifers or develop some kind of methane-capturing cow diapers.
In a “Raise a Stink” campaign earlier this year, farmers in New Zealand mailed reeking parcels of sheep and cow manure to members of Parliament to protest a proposed flatulence tax. The new levy is designed to empty tens of millions of dollars from the pockets of farmers, raise meat prices, meet the government’s commitments under the Kyoto Protocol on global warming, and pay for research into methane gas emissions from agricultural animals. The nation’s postal service complained that the campaign was a threat to the physical and mental health of postal workers.
