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Re: Methane production
> Furthermore, why didn't the near extermination of
> the North American Bison also produce a
> mini-cooling event? There were tens of millions
> of bison roaming the Great Plains, and within 50
> years their numbers were reduced to a few hundred
> animals in Yellowstone Park.
>
> The number of cattle that "replaced" them was only
> a miniscule percentage of the original number
> of bison.
How much methane do you suppose nearly seven billion humans produce?
Anything like 60 million buffalo plus all the other megafauna humans have
eliminated worldwide in the last 125 years?
-- Donna Braginetz