Scientists unite to push Bush on climate
Pressure on the White House to act on scientific assessments of global warming mounted yesterday after the world’s largest general scientific society said that climate change was a “threat to society”.
The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) joined the growing clamour for political action in a public statement approved by its board.
Clearly Bush should ban cows:
It's not just the well-known and frequently joked-about flatulence and manure of grass-chewing cattle that's the problem, according to a recent report by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). Land-use changes, especially deforestation to expand pastures and to create arable land for feed crops, is a big part. So is the use of energy to produce fertilizers, to run the slaughterhouses and meat-processing plants, and to pump water.
"Livestock are one of the most significant contributors to today's most serious environmental problems," Henning Steinfeld, senior author of the report, said when the FAO findings were released in November.
And yet people are still taking these guys seriously.
Source: Scientists unite to push Bush on climate-News-World-US & Americas-TimesOnline
