Cow methane theory is so much hot air

THE call by the chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Dr RK Pachauri, for a reduction in the global consumption of meat signals the final nail in the coffin of scientific reality at the UN.

Not only is his negative propaganda damaging to Ireland’s beef and dairy export sector, the premise that it is necessary for preventing climate change is utterly false.

During the course of bovine husbandry, grains and grasses are cultivated to absorb carbon from the atmosphere and only a fraction of that carbon is released back by the animal in the form of methane.