3.07.2006

20% of world's methane emissions caused by bug-farts!

No joke. Source: The Compleat Cockroach by David George Gordan

More from Andromeda Strange:

Insect flatulence may account for one-fifth of all the methane emissions on this planet. (Termites are also prodigious farters; indeed, dogs trained to sniff out termites are actually following their farts.)

Cockroaches are among the biggest contributors to global warming, since they break wind every fifteen minutes. Furthermore, they continue to release methane gas for eighteen hours after they die.

And, oddly enough, another 20 percent (or up to) of the world's methane emissions comes from flooded rice fields. From Radio Briefs.

Today's worthless knowledge brought to you by one bored papa who doesn't want to clean the house.

1 Comments:

Blogger Gyrobo said...

All I can say is "awsome."

7:36 PM  

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