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  Well, milk cows CAN become burgers, but the whole feed regime, the discussion of grass-fed, etc., simply doesn't apply to milk cows across the board.  Grist just missed it on this one, dude.

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  Thought you should know those are milk cows in the picture, not beef cows. 

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  Warm on terror - Bassackwards

  Hate to say it, folks, but given the amount of pollutants we are putting into the atmosphere (and the upper atmosphere at that) through our seemingly endless warmongering, doesn't it seem that this is completely backwards.  Wouldn't it make more sense for Congress to take a look at what WE are doing to the atmosphere first, and then decide whether or not our actions are making us more or less vulnerable to what are increasingly violent disruptions in the global climate?  

  Out here in Montana, we are watching our glaciers disappear from Glacier National Park, our forests burn because they are killed by bugs that used to perish in our cold winters but don't now thanks to global warming.  Our world famous trout streams are drying up -- as are the crops.  The calamitous effects are upon us already.  It wouldn't take long to figure out how much fuel we're burning, how many explosives we're blowing up, how much depleted uranium dust we're throwing into the air with every tank shell, and what that might be doing to this fragile globe and its atmosphere.  Remember when the planes quit flying after 9-11?  Remember what happened?  The atmosphere suddenly got a lot cleaner and it got that way FAST. We fly big honking military jets night and day, every day.  Pollution has rarely even been considered by the Department of Defense -- only performance (Hanford Nuclear site would be one good example, but there are thousands).  So before we go looking at how we are going to be threatened vis-a-vis our vulnerabilities to global warming, maybe we should look more closely at just who is doing the threatening.  As Pogo said "we have met the enemy, and they is us."On Bipartisan bill calls for intelligence assessment of climate impacts posted 2 years, 7 months ago 10 Responses