THE COWS’ DONE IT….A LOONEY ENVIRONMENTAL THEORY
http://www.spectator.co.uk/melaniephillips/5476426/blame-the-cows.thtml
Blame the cows!
Tuesday, 27th October 2009
Really, this is beyond parody. Sir Nicolas Stern, whose absurd and ignorant report on the economic consequences of man-made global warming has embarrassed even the warmists because of the scorn and ridicule it provoked from other economists let alone scientists, has now decided what we must all do to avoid the imminent climate Armageddon: stop eating meat. The Telegraph reports:
Lord Stern, author of the 2006 Stern Review on the cost of tackling global warming, predicts that eating meat could in the future become as socially unacceptable as drink driving. Livestock farming has come under fire in recent years from environmental campaigners because methane from cattle and pigs is a significant source of greenhouse gases. Lord Stern, a former chief economist of the World Bank, believes that the Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen in December should call for an increase in the price of meat and other foods that contribute to climate change. In an interview with The Times, he said: ‘Meat is a wasteful use of water and creates a lot of greenhouse gases. It puts enormous pressure on the world’s resources. A vegetarian diet is better.’
So even though man-made global warming theory has now imploded under the pressure of falling global temperatures, increasing global ice cover, static seas and record numbers of happy polar bears, not to mention more and more evidence that the research underpinning the theory is flawed or bent and the opinion of hundreds of leading scientists that the whole thing is total rubbish, Lord Stern not only continues to predict imminent doom for the planet but has now decided that the cause of this non-catastrophe is the farmyard cow or pig.
I blame Noah.
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