US Attack on Nordstream 1 & 2?
How many planet destroying cow farts does the release of natural gas from the pipelines equate to?
Natural gas is bubbling to the surface of the Baltic between Sweden and Germany right now, almost certainly as a result of the Biden administration targeting Nordstream 1 and 2 for destruction. Sanctions weren’t enough apparently; they had to be sure. Germany and Europe now face a very dark, cold winter indeed.
The gas bubbling to the surface from both ruptured pipelines is methane, which is a greenhouse gas, which Green fanatics assure us contributes to global warming and is in fact a more powerful GHG than even carbon dioxide. What they don’t tell you is that the half-life of methane in the atmosphere is very short (no more than months or years), so its effect is temporally limited, unlike CO2 which they claim accumulates in the atmosphere over many years.
But nevertheless, rabid eco-fascists are keen to clamp down on all man-made (and cow-made) emissions of methane, so they’ve targeted animal farming as a source of planet destroying emissions in the form of farting livestock.
What I ask myself is, with the millions of cubic metres of methane now escaping into the atmosphere from the Nordstream pipelines, what is the equivalent in cow farts? To be more precise, when all that gas has been released (I presume that Russia has now switched off the taps at their end) what will be the methane equivalent in cow farts expressed in terms of the number of cows expelling the average number of farts per hour over a set period? I don’t have the figures to hand, but it would be interesting to know.
My guess is that the US administration is responsible for releasing enough methane into the atmosphere over a short period such that it is equivalent to hundreds of thousands, if not millions of livestock farting over that same period. Naughty Biden; we’ll now have to cull millions more animals to make up for the increase in atmospheric methane occasioned by the US administration’s obsessive, batshit crazy geopolitical manoeuvrings.
UKColumn have fresh information on this, see from 24:23 in https://www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-28th-september-2022
They refer to recent Nato mine detection exercises in the area of the attack and the very recent presence (at 34:00) of USS Kersarge, a ship with "landing dock" capability.
Of course that's probably all just coincidence.
So, this is interesting. In February this year, just before Biden said Nordstream would 'no longer be' if Russia invaded Ukraine, the BBC reported on oil and gas fields leaks of methane and the supposed contribution of methane to global warming.
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-60203683
"Huge plumes of the warming gas methane have been mapped globally for the first time from oil and gas fields using satellites.
Plugging these leaks would be an important step in buying extra time to curb climate change.
The new research found plumes covering vast areas, sometimes stretching to 200 miles - the leaks are thought to be mostly unintended.
Scientists believe that cutting methane emissions is an "easy win" in tackling climate change, because it's a very potent gas usually released by humans in leaks that can be stopped relatively easily.
An IPCC study last year suggested that 30-50% of the current rise in temperatures is down to methane."
So, is this good news for Germany and northern Europe? With the vast amount of methane now spilling into the atmosphere from the Nordstream pipelines in the Baltic, perhaps that region will warm considerably this winter and the Germans will not have to rely upon gas and electricity to heat their homes because they will be basking in the warm glow of a greenhouse gas created sub tropical winter! Or maybe not.