Never mind those scientists that say the earth is now cooling. The momentum of the global warming crisis-fighting machine cannot be slowed down.

Now they’re counting cow burps and changing the cows’ diets to try to get them to emit less greenhouse gases. Here’s a picture of one of the experimental cows with a big pink tank on its back to collect all of the burps.

Reuters/Marcos Brindicci

If I made this stuff up nobody would believe it. But it’s actually happening, and people are taking it seriously.

Guillermo Berra of the National Institute of Agricultural Technology says that up to 30% of Argentina’s greenhouse gas emissions could be produced by cows.

No doubt this will be used to argue that we should all become vegans. I wonder whether this new discovery will result in less food to feed hungry people, as public opinion is turned against gassy cows and meat eaters by those whose religious fervor drives them to shame us for having the audacity to want to feed our families and maintain our standard of living.

The folly of ethanol showed us that if we care more about battling the illusory crisis of global warming than we do about feeding humans, we end up with the unintended consequence of human starvation, with its impact being felt by the poor of the world.

Cross posted at www.steamvalveblog.com