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Cow-made Global Warming October 2, 2005

Posted by Resident Egoist in : Ecology , comments closed

Yep! It’s official now: global warming is no longer solely Man-made; it is cow-made, too!!

Agence France Press reports:

The world may not end with a bang or even a whimper — just a burp.

This is the worrying scenario sketched by a French expert, who has discovered that the world’s cattle are huge contributors to global warming because of the methane emitted by

But, according to a researcher at the Climate Mission at the Caisse des Depots, a French state-owned bank, farm animals must also shoulder some of the blame.

France’s 20 million cows account for an astonishing 6.5 percent of national greenhouse-gas emissions, according to his estimates.

Each year, their belches send 26 million tonnes of these gases into the atmosphere.

Their faeces — “dejection bovine,” to use the poetic-sounding French phrase — account for another 12 million tonnes.

Compare that with the 12 million tonnes of gas emitted by French oil refineries, demonised by greenies as climate-killers.

Nor is bovine gas just any old gas.

It comprises methane and nitrous oxide, which volume-for-volume are 21 and 310 times more effective at trapping solar heat respectively than boring CO2.

By itself, methane is to blame for a fifth of the man-made greenhouse effect of the past 200 years.

So, when do you think Greens are going to call for the total extermination of cows in order to comply with the projected goals of the Kyoto Protocol? I for one do not think that this is too-far-fetched of an idea. If cows cause just as much [or even more] “global warming” as cars by the spewing of those develish, “satanic gases,” why not call for their extermination just as the “extermination” of cars is called for?

But then we might run into problem with the animal worshipers — who are often embodied in the same person as your usual green. So I propose a compromise: lets us force cow manufacturers — from now on — to manufacture only hybrid cows. After all, we can’t have our planet — our sole and fragile planet — be sent to oblivion by cows.

P.S: When are they going to pull the estimates on how much human breathing contributes to “global warming” anyway? We do exhale CO2, you know — and that is the main stanic gas. With a global population of 7 billion — and counting — that has got be a lot of CO2. I think the salvation of the planet might require the extermination of the human species itself. But then again … we can always manufacture hybrid humans.

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New Objectivist Magazines October 2, 2005

Posted by Resident Egoist in : Philosophy , comments closed

At Noodlefood, Don Watkins just announced the inauguration of Axiomatic magazine — his new “forum for Objectivists who want to write about Objectivism for other Objectivists.”

This first issue will include

[a]n analysis of the relationship between risk and values (?The Value of Risk? by Don Watkins); a new perspective on Albert Einstein and his role in the development of quantum theory (?Einstein?s Contributions to Quantum Theory? by Travis Norsen); a look at what it means to say Ayn Rand created a scientific ethics (?The Last Gasp for The God of the Gaps? by Greg Perkins); and a fascinating interview with Andrew Bernstein, author of the recently published book, The Capitalist Manifesto.

Another Objectivist publishing platform that is soon to come to life, is The Objective Standard — which is

[a] quarterly journal of culture and politics written from the perspective that man?s life on earth is the proper standard of morality [and] provides a rational, principled alternative to the ideas of both liberalism and conservatism …

Contributing writers [will] include Craig Biddle, Yaron Brook, Alex Epstein, Elan Journo, John Lewis, Keith Lockitch, Larry Salzman, and Lisa VanDamme.

[Hat Tip to the Armchair Intellectual.]

The first issue of The Objective Standard is scheduled to come out in Spring of 2006.

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