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![]() CO2, I heard on a Radio 4 (BBC) news article last week, is mainly
produced (in nature) by insects and farm animals. Apparently insects, mainly termites, generate more CO2 than automobiles. The news article tried to be serious, however comments about how to stop insects from farting lowered the tone greatly. Also feed stocks (diet) can reduce CO2 produced from livestock, not from the gas emitted from the tail end, but from the breath that is emitted from the front end (especially by ruminants). No matter what one says, the facts that I have read imply that cars & trucks generate less than 3% of the world's CO2. Last year Porsche GB put out a pretty strong argument in a large daily paper against the congestion charge being levied by the then left wing "Red" Ken Livingston, mayor of London, claiming that CO2 from cars was miniscule compared to the natural production by nature's best. Bloody insects, cows, sheep and pigs generate more, so I am being told. Issue for me and I guess some of you too, is that there are a lot of conflicting facts and opinions. e.g. as the Artcic ice recedes, the Antarctic increases. Some say on radio and press that as a result of shifting ice concentrations, the earth will become lop-sided as a result and cause even more climate change due to some latitudes going further north and some further south. Go figure! Clyde |