[ale] [OT] Psychology of Denial about Climate Change

[Lightner, Jeff]

The PETA/Vegan types better hope they never get their way.  If I can't
buy meat I'll start eating them instead - they'll be too weak to resist
anyway.

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From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of
Chris Ness
Sent: Thursday, February 25, 2010 12:17 PM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts - Yes! We run Linux!
Subject: Re: [ale] [OT] Psychology of Denial about Climate Change

On Thu, 2010-02-25 at 06:46 -0500, Jeff Hubbs wrote:
> The popular media and those who feed into it seem to only talk about
CO2 
> as it pertains to anthro climate change but it's my understanding that

> that the real elephants in the room aren't CO2 but methane and water 
> vapor.  The tinfoil-hat part of me suspects that part of the reason
you 
> don't hear more about this is that methane concentrations are strongly

> affected by agriculture.  "Drive hybrid/electric cars" isn't as 
> unpalatable a mantra as "eat less beef." 

 I suppose we should be thankful that all those wild animals like
buffalo, rhinos and elephants are going or gone - They fart more than
cows do.

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