Abdullah the Butcher Posted December 21, 2014 Share Posted December 21, 2014 http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/12/21/climate-change-beavers/20728405/ Beaver dams create shallow ponds, which can host growing levels of carbon as biological material accumulates on the floor. The result is methane, a greenhouse gas that doesn't dissolve in the ponds; instead, it travels into the atmosphere. These days, beaver ponds release 200 times more methane than they did in 1900, when centuries of hunting threatened the animals with extinction. Today, the animals are definitely doing better; in fact, there are about 10 million of them, researchers in Canada figured in a new study. One result of that is some 16,000 square miles of dammed ponds, which has led to the release of some 882,000 tons of methane, or 15% of what deer, antelope, and other cud-chewing wild creatures produce. Get Gangwish. 1 Link to comment
beanman Posted December 21, 2014 Share Posted December 21, 2014 The more beaver the better IMO. Link to comment
NUance Posted December 21, 2014 Share Posted December 21, 2014 This thread could use some pics! Oh wait, it's not in the Daily Skin forum? Nevermind. Link to comment
commando Posted December 21, 2014 Share Posted December 21, 2014 So PETA and the other animal activist are contributing to global warming? cool...another reason to mock them. Link to comment
carlfense Posted December 22, 2014 Share Posted December 22, 2014 So PETA and the other animal activist are contributing to global warming? cool...another reason to mock them.If we can all acknowledge that climate change is an important issue and we can simultaneously mock PETA I'm all for it. If you're skipping past the former to get to the latter you're doing it wrong. Link to comment
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