Rheghead
25-Jun-05, 17:45
I had to break my silence to bring you an amusing and interesting story
Some years ago, I learnt that heathland and moorland would turn back to woodland if grazing animals were taken off the land. So during the 2001 Foot and Mouth outbreak, I started off a conspiracy theory that the F&M was started off deliberately by government agents so that the Dept of the Environment could justify any increased CO2 emission quotas under Kyoto because former grazing land was now going to be used as a CO2 sink(woodland). I was deadly serous in my delivery of this theory down in the pub and I was surprised how many thought that I was being serious. I lived in Cumbria at the time, an area seriously affected by F&M and where there are a lot of hillfarmers who rear sheep, I guess that because they saw themselves as pawns in an international situation they were more prepared to believe in this theory. :evil
However, this story has taken a new twist because I believe that there is going to be a satellite that is designed to measure the amount of woodland in countries so they could now justify CO2 emissions if they have sufficient CO2 sinks!!
I must be ahead of my time or somebody in authority had taken my bait hook line and sinker? :)
However the hill farmers are fighting back to justify their existence under the Kyoto agreement,see below
Sheep answer to Kyoto emissions?? (http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_1424428.html?menu=news.scienceanddiscovery)
Sheep wee eh? And I thought I was extracting it, someone else is doing a better job though! :lol:
Some years ago, I learnt that heathland and moorland would turn back to woodland if grazing animals were taken off the land. So during the 2001 Foot and Mouth outbreak, I started off a conspiracy theory that the F&M was started off deliberately by government agents so that the Dept of the Environment could justify any increased CO2 emission quotas under Kyoto because former grazing land was now going to be used as a CO2 sink(woodland). I was deadly serous in my delivery of this theory down in the pub and I was surprised how many thought that I was being serious. I lived in Cumbria at the time, an area seriously affected by F&M and where there are a lot of hillfarmers who rear sheep, I guess that because they saw themselves as pawns in an international situation they were more prepared to believe in this theory. :evil
However, this story has taken a new twist because I believe that there is going to be a satellite that is designed to measure the amount of woodland in countries so they could now justify CO2 emissions if they have sufficient CO2 sinks!!
I must be ahead of my time or somebody in authority had taken my bait hook line and sinker? :)
However the hill farmers are fighting back to justify their existence under the Kyoto agreement,see below
Sheep answer to Kyoto emissions?? (http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_1424428.html?menu=news.scienceanddiscovery)
Sheep wee eh? And I thought I was extracting it, someone else is doing a better job though! :lol: