Norway's Moose Population in Trouble for Belching

[alocispepraluger102]

SPIEGEL ONLINE - August 21, 2007, 05:40 PM

URL: http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitge...,501145,00.html

GLOBAL WARMING FEARS

Norway's Moose Population in Trouble for Belching

The poor old Scandinavian moose is now being blamed for climate change, with researchers in Norway claiming that a grown moose can produce 2,100 kilos of carbon dioxide a year -- equivalent to the CO2 output resulting from a 13,000 kilometer car journey.

Now poor moose are being blamed for global warming.

Norway is concerned that its national animal, the moose, is harming the climate by emitting an estimated 2,100 kilos of carbon dioxide a year through its belching and farting.

Norwegian newspapers, citing research from Norway's technical university, said a motorist would have to drive 13,000 kilometers in a car to emit as much CO2 as a moose does in a year.

Bacteria in a moose's stomach create methane gas which is considered even more destructive to the environment than carbon dioxide gas. Cows pose the same problem.

Norway has some 120,000 moose but an estimated 35,000 are expected to be killed in this year's moose hunting season, which starts on September 25, Norwegian newspaper VG reported.

Edited August 23, 2007 by alocispepraluger102

[mikeweil]

Cows have been accused of the same .....

[Chuck Nessa]

I've done my share.

[T.D.]

Every once in a while, I read about proposals to harness bovine flatulence, using the collected methane as an energy source and cutting down on CO2 emissions...I always wind up thinking that they should reserve one of those machines for me.

[alocispepraluger102]

...and trombones and oboes?

Edited August 24, 2007 by alocispepraluger102

[mikeweil]

I'm afraid the collecting gear could be somewhat cumbersome to wear - some direct rocket drive, that would be a real innovation ...

[BruceH]

Is this a normal moose population or a jazzmoose population?

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

Sheep give rise to the same problem.

The sheep population of Wales is enormous and hugely expensive - they're all subsidised like crazy.

My solution to the economic development problem in Wales, as well as to the global wrming problem, is to turn each sheep farm into a hunting ground, for types like Dick Cheney, and to compel each sheep farmer to buy at least one circus cannon. Thus, sheep could be fired out over the heads of the hunters at the signal of "PULL!".

Politicians viewed this as a joke.

MG

[MoGrubb]

.....I always wind up thinking that they should reserve one of those machines for me.

This must be why NYcity and other big towns smell like one humongous fart.