New Zealand Taxes Cow Fa*ts U. N. Concerned About Flatulence and Burps

Farm animal flatulence and belching is "one of the main issues" on the dictator dominated U. N. agenda in Poland where 187 nations gathered this month, reported the New York Times. The Times went on to explain 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." "We haven't come to grips with agricultural emissions," morose warned Dr. Rajendra Pachauri, head of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in a front page article in the New York Times on December 4, "From Hoof to Plate, a New Bid to Cut Emissions."

A week later the Associated Press reported that "2008 is on a pace to be colder than last year" On December 11, the palm trees were snow-covered in New Orleans in the earliest snowfall ever recorded in the city's history. Enjoying a rare blizzard on the Outer Banks, kids were building snowmen on the beach a week before Thanksgiving. "Alaskan glaciers grew this year instead of retreating," reported Investor's Business Daily on December 15, while "Fairbanks had its fourth coldest October in 104 years of records," and "the temperature at Denver International Airport dropped to 18-below-zero on December 14, breaking the previous record of 14-below set in 1901."

A report on Hypocrisy.com last week by Canadian climatologist Dr. Tim Ball is an indictment of the IPCC for outright manipulation of its statistics to prove its point. Its favored tactic is to prematurely publish preliminary study results to create the false impression about global warming so scientifically challenged but politically inspired reporters sensationize those studies to spew pablum to largely ignorant publics.

The IPCC is not dissuaded by facts continuing to flog its agenda and adding cow flatulence and hog burps to its doomsday scenario all the while collecting nearly a billion dollars - mostly from the U. S. - to flit around the world on what has become little more than a taxpayer paid global junketeering program. Not unlike Al Gore's mamouth carbon footprint this collection of hypocrites disgorge more carbon than all the world's cows on bad diet collectively.

To control our carbon footprint, says Dr. Pachauri, 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, hogs 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 poop to members of Parliament to protest a proposed flatulence tax. The new levy is designed to filch 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 New Zealand postal service had something of a "poop protest" of its own arguing the campaign threatened the physical and mental health of postal workers.

Under the Kyoto Protocol, New Zealand is required to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions to 5.2 percent below 1990 levels by 2012. "According to government figures, New Zealand's 45 million sheep and cattle burped and farted about 90 percent of the country's methane emissions," reports London's Telegraph.

Next year, Sweden is launching a green labeling program for food, so consumers can readily see that a turkey is allegedly better than a pig for keeping the ocean levels down, and that carrots are even better. "Producing a pound of beef creates 11 times as much greenhouse gas emissions as a pound of chicken and 100 times more than a pound of carrots, according to Lantmannen," a Swedish environmental group, reports the Times.

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