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

[Chris Ness]

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.