Shonky,

You are pissing in the wind, the science is unequivocal, CLIMATE CHANGE due to human activity is real, and its with us now, not tomorrow, not next week, NOW! No matter how much an old conservative like you wants to deny it, the reality is climate action is required NOW!. Whether farting cows are a problem or not the reality of the situation needs to be dealt with in a positive way. You will get agreement from other old octogenarian deniers, who are not far off being carbonised themselves, but its meaningless. We would be better off discussing your belief that the earth is flat, than the pros and cons of CLIMATE CHANGE.

Shadow,
'Tis not a myth. The calculations of the global warming potential of methane do take its atmospheric half life into account.

Denialists keep assuming the scientists are doing it wrong, but fail to actually check. Every time they discover anything that's new to them, they assume the scientists don't already know, whereas in most cases the scientists have been well aware for decades.

Meanwhile farmers have the option of supplementing the cows' diet to reduce the amount of methane they produce.

What utter god damn twaddle Aidan.

The CO2 & methane passed by cows came from guess where Aidan? Could it be from the air that supplied the carbon to enable the grass to grow. Cows, & all other life forms supply a sequestering service, tying up carbon for a number of years.

Without the cows the CO2 in the grass would rot, or be consumed by termites, returning the CO2 to the air more quickly. Kill off the cows, & an immediate boost in CO2 will follow.

Cowshit, coal and gas are all good; they have given us the standard of living we have enjoyed for decades in Australia. Leftists, politicians and climate crooks are all bad, because they are taking our wealth and way of life away from us.

Village idiot,

Once again you display your stupidity. This is not about climate change as a whole but rather the idiocy of including methane from cows in the PERMANENT contribution to GHG.

The effect on global warming 30 years after a cow is gone is close to zero.

Aidan, Look up the calculations and you will see how bogus it is.

In Adelaide today, the CMO, having reduced her usefulness to society by dropping from real doctor (paediatrician) to public servant, has now become a witchdoctor, blurting out during a radio discussion on Covid, that climate change has an effect on human health. The fact that the world has never been healthier and wealthier doesn't seem to have shown up in the chicken bones she threw down on the table this morning.