The idea that huge herds of cows produce enough methane from various bodily functions to effect the earths climate has been floating around for awhile now.  Although one common misconception is that most of this methane comes from, well… cow farts.  In actuality most of the methane is burped up during digestion.  Cellulose in the grasses the cows eat are digested by [...]

Recently you may have heard a lot about Al Gore, global warming (or climate change), and the energy crisis. But what are we supposed to make of all this? New evidence presented to the Intergovernment Panel on Climate Change may shed new light on this problem. The History channel recently aired a special on just [...]