Moose Burps More Worser Than Car Exhaust

  •  August 22, 2007

I think this means cars really aren’t that bad.

The poor old Scandinavian moose is now being blamed for climate change, with researchers in Norway claiming that a grown moose can produce 2,100 kilos of methane a year — equivalent to the CO2 output resulting from a 13,000 kilometer car journey.
Norway is concerned that its national animal, the moose, is harming the climate by emitting an estimated 2,100 kilos of carbon dioxide a year through its belching and farting.

If this keeps up they’ll have to rename Frostbite Falls Minnesota.

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  • http://Array Pilgrim

    good job, Random!

    It was in fact, Jinx who said it, and the meese were Pixie and Dixie, old Hanna Barbera cartoon characters from when cartoons were still funny.

    You, sir (or ma’am, whatever) may fit in here nicely since many of us on this site have piles of equally useless information in our brains.

  • http://proof-proofpositive.blogspot.com/ proof_positive

    Keel moose and squirrel!

  • http://SayAnythingBlog.com The_Whistler_ofnd

    Random: Interesting signature in that Larry Niven said never waste calories on fake whipping cream I believe.

  • docdave

    whistler, you cwazy wabbit. I’m going to get you.
    /E. Fudd

  • http://SayAnythingBlog.com The_Whistler_ofnd

    Watch me pull a rabbit out of my hat.

  • http://randomnumbers.us/ Random Numbers

    Whisler: He was quoting his wife, known as Fuzzy Pink for the house shoes she always wore at cons. Thus Fuzzy Pink’s Law.

  • http://www.willisms.com/ Zsa Zsa

    Poor little Bullwinkle.

  • http://randomnumbers.us/ Random Numbers

    Got it! The meese were Pixie And Dixie!

  • http://proof-proofpositive.blogspot.com/ proof_positive

    Reminds me of the time I climbed Whychataka Peak. Pretty smoggy up there, too!

  • http://sayanythingblog.com/readers/author/Anna/ Anna

    Well… at least I didn’t google to get the answer ;-P

  • http://www.bikebubba.blogspot.com/ Robert Perry

    The article says carbon dioxide, not methane, but then later alludes to that. For the record, if you eat 2000 calories per day, your carbon dioxide output is around 400kG. Scales roughly with weight, really.

    No comment on your likely methane output.

  • kbiel

    Wow. The moose’s emission of “green house gases” is limited to belching and flatulence? Does it not respirate as well? Perhaps is breathes in nitrogen and expels ammonia?

    Won’t these global warming worries be shocked to find out that, after volcanism, animals, both land and sea, are the greatest source of carbon dioxide and methane.

  • http://sayanythingblog.com/readers/author/Anna/ Anna

    Amazing group of people you have here Rob… they go from moose farts to pink fuzzy slippers all in one post

  • http://randomnumbers.us/ Random Numbers

    Pilgrim: That would be Jinx. Now if you asked me to name said meece, I would have trouble.

  • http://SayAnythingBlog.com The_Whistler_ofnd

    Whatsamatta U

  • Pilgrim

    “I hate those miserable meeses to pieces!”

    (anybody place the quote?)

  • http://SayAnythingBlog.com The_Whistler_ofnd

    Whisler: He was quoting his wife, known as Fuzzy Pink for the house shoes she always wore at cons. Thus Fuzzy Pink’s Law.

    OK, I didn’t know that he was married to a fuzzy pink.

    Another one of Niven’s personal rules I wish I followed better is that when a mechanical device isn’t working perfectly get it fixed or throw it away immediately.

  • http://sayanythingblog.com/readers/author/Anna/ Anna

    Tom and Jerry?

  • http://SayAnythingBlog.com The_Whistler_ofnd

    meeses.

  • http://randomnumbers.us/ Random Numbers

    Sorry, thinking about moose gets me thinking about mousse.
    That gets me thinking about whipped cream.
    That gets me thinking about Fuzzy Pink (Marilyn?) Niven.
    And so we get to fuzzy pink slippers.

    The Six Degrees of Fuzzy Pink Niven.

  • http://sayanythingblog.com/readers/author/Anna/ Anna

    I guess that explains Canada choosing the moose as one of their official national mascots

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