Re: Methane - and its sources ...

philip.marshall Wrote:
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> Actually, the issue isn't cow farts but cow
> belches.  Cattle and other ruminants are
> foregut fermenters, so their waste methane
> comes out of their mouths. We humans are
> hindgut fermenters, so our methane comes
> out the other end.

Johnson Barr Wrote:
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> Speak fore yourself, Philip -
> SFAIK, lawyers & polly-tishuns produce hot
> expanding gases from both ends - butt dis-
> proportionately from fore rather than aft.


But that's not methane, Willie -

Climate scientists have confirmed that the gases produced by the lungs & larynxes of lie-ars & polly-tishuns (the former are mostly a subset of the latter) consist mainly of hydrogen sulphide (H₂S) and n-butyl mercaptan (essence of skunk).

- El Abuelo Histœrico, Greengo y Curmudgeoño de los Locomoturas Viejos y Verdes,
aka Der Grossväterlich DünkelOlivGrünDampfKesselMantelLiebHabender