Cow-fart gate.

Cartoon: By Nicholson.

Well, first there was 'climategate', then the floodgates really opened and the whole sorry scam of the global warming junkies started to come apart at the seams. It appears now that when one gate opens another gate opens, then another and another .......

I got this item from 'Newsmax' which appears to be excerpted from an article in the Telegraph reporting on yet another favourite alarmist sacred (belching and farting) cow, or should I say item of faith going down the gurgler.

‘Cowgate’ Is Latest Global Warming Scandal

Another claim by global warming alarmists has been discredited — this time assertions about the role livestock play in producing greenhouse gases.

In 2006, a United Nations report entitled “Livestock’s Long Shadow” claimed that “the livestock sector is a major player, responsible for 18 percent of greenhouse gas emissions. This is a higher share than transport.”

This led to demands for a “cow tax” in the U.S. and a campaign in Europe last year called “Less Meat = Less Heat,” political commentator Gerald Warner points out in Britain’s Daily Telegraph.

Now Dr. Frank Mitloehner, an air quality expert at the University of California at Davis, calls the U.N. report “scientifically inaccurate.”

In a report to the American Chemical Society, he reveals that the U.N. added all greenhouse-gas emissions associated with meat production, including fertilizer production, land clearance, methane emissions, production of feed, milk processing, and vehicle use on farms, to get the highest possible result.

But the transport figure included only the burning of fossil fuels, resulting in an “apples and oranges analogy that truly confused the issue,” Mitloehner disclosed.

In fact, just 3 percent of greenhouse gas emissions in the U.S. are attributable to the raising of cows and pigs, compared to 26 percent from transport, according to Mitloehner.

“It is becoming difficult to keep pace with the speed at which the global warming scam is now unraveling,” Warner writes, noting that the Washington Times has called the latest flap “Cowgate.”

“Himalayan glaciers, polar bears, Arctic ice, Amazon rainforests, all discredited.”

One of the authors of the U.N. report, Pierre Gerber with the U.N.’s Food and Agriculture Organization, told the BBC he accepted Mitloehner’s criticism: “I must say honestly that he has a point — we factored in everything for meat emissions, and we didn’t do the same thing with transport.”

The antics of these scumballs on the GW gravy train are not only reprehensible from the ethical point of view but the revelations that are continually coming out on this fraud are likely to discredit honest scientists for years to come. Sort of, "Don't tell mum I'm a research scientist, she thinks I'm a ukulele player in a brothel."

I am particularly happy for my old mates Ben and Bawb over in the US as they will be able to continue managing their livestock empires in Montana and Iowa without that haunting feeling of guilt they have never alluded to about destroying the planet and making things terribly hot for those in Washington who seek to 'serve' them by telling them what to do.