A special kind of stupid: WEF leader promoting cow masks. Screenshot from YouTube
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Newsweek: Prince Charles Mocked For Backing ‘Crazy’ Climate Change Face Mask For Cows
Reality Check:Physicist Dr. Tom Sheahen: ‘Methane: The Irrelevant Greenhouse Gas’ – ‘Water vapor has already absorbed the very same infrared radiation that Methane might have absorbed’– ‘The tiny increases in methane associated with cows may elicit a few giggles, but it absolutely cannot be the basis for sane regulations or national policy.’
By: Marc Morano
It sounds like a belated April Fool’s joke: On May 24, 2022, the online portal Agrarheute reported that the British startup ZELP ( Zero Emissions Livestock Project ) had developed masks for cows. In this case, however, not to protect them from Corona, but to filter methane.
ZELP is currently testing various prototypes of the cattle masks, according to Agrarheute. These are already able to filter around 30 percent of the methane emitted by ruminants. In the future, this value should be increased to around 60 percent.
The highlight: ZELP was awarded the climate protection prize “Climate Design Award” for the “revolutionary” idea, which was created by WEF figurehead Prince Charles and designer Sir Jony Ive. The cattle mask was one of four winners and received a cash prize of the equivalent of 58 000 euros. Prince Charles supports face masks for cows to fight climate change.
The British monarch is one of the architects of the Great Reset, the name of the 50th annual meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF), held in June 2020. It brought together high-profile business and political leaders, convened by Prince Charles. At the launch event for the Great Reset, he listed key areas for action, similar to those listed in his Sustainable Markets Initiative. These included draconian measures for net zero emissions globally as well as the introduction of carbon pricing.
To prove that this report was not a joke, the portal linked a video in its article that showed the enthusiastic heir to the throne presenting the project.
The 100-gram rubber masks with solar-powered fans are designed to direct the animals’ exhalations into a small chamber and then use chemical processes to convert methane into carbon dioxide, Agrarheute explained. But first farmers have to be convinced to actually use the masks.
One obstacle could be the rather high price: The use costs 45 dollars per cow and year, the equivalent of 41 euros. In addition, the masks would not bring any advantage for the farmer from an economic point of view.
In the comments below the article, readers legitimately wondered whether this message was some kind of joke. Agrarheute immediately confirmed that this was unfortunately not the case.
The claims about methane have been debunked
One reader commented: “Madness or stupidity? Every thinking person understands what nonsense the story about cow’s methane is. A cow is not a perpetual motion machine and it does not create energy out of thin air. The cow lives in the earth’s natural carbon cycle and is not ‘climate-damaging’ (if such a thing exists). Even the climate heroes at Climate Facts know that, although some people don’t like it. They are just producing a lot of garbage, trying to get more money out of the farmers’ pockets, end of the story.”
The three main greenhouse gases, carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide, all impact the environment differently. Methane is known as a “flow gas”, removed from the atmosphere at a rapid pace. Methane’s lifespan in the atmosphere is approximately 10 years, but flow gases will stay stagnant as they are destroyed at the same rate of emission.
Thus the initial method for calculating greenhouse emissions misrepresents the impact of short-lived flow gases, like methane, on future warming.
The hypocrisy of the global elite
The global elite pushing the Great Reset this week emitted thousands of units of carbon dioxide with an estimated lifespan in the atmosphere of 1000 years, meaning carbon dioxide emitted from the year 2022 will still be in the atmosphere in 3022. Meeting via Zoom for example, would have been a much better choice, given their “concerns” about climate change.
Traveling in private jets to the Davos Summit in Switzerland to foist their climate agenda on the rest of the world to “limit global temperature rise and stave off disaster” as stated on its website, “10 private one-way flights departed various European cities on Wednesday evening and landed in St. Gallen-Altenrhein Airport, the closest airstrip to Davos, emitting approximately 43 440 pounds of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere”.
For the WEF annual meeting in 2019 in Davos, according to an analysis from Air Charter Service, The Guardian reported at the time that around 1 500 private jets flew to and from airports near the Swiss town.
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Prince Charles backs face masks for cows in bid to tackle climate change
Prince Charles has backed a radical plan to tackle greenhouse gas emissions.
Methane-catching masks could be attached to cows in an unlikely method of reducing the carbon footprint of the beef industry.
Francisco Norris, founder of design group Zelp (Zero Emissions Livestock Project) – which designed the product, said it was a “great honour” to speak with the Prince, whom he had met previously when presenting a prototype of his product in 2018.
Charles asked with concern whether the device, which is worn around a cow’s head, was “annoying” for the animal, but Mr Norris reassured him that “it doesn’t bother them at all”.
Zelp has been working with one of the UK’s largest meat producers in order to trial the device on cows.
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Related:
Physicist Dr. Tom Sheahen: ‘Methane: The Irrelevant Greenhouse Gas’ – ‘Water vapor has already absorbed the very same infrared radiation that Methane might have absorbed’– ‘The tiny increases in methane associated with cows may elicit a few giggles, but it absolutely cannot be the basis for sane regulations or national policy.’
Study: ‘Methane emissions have a negligible impact’ on climate
Seems to me in these woke times when Washington and Jefferson are pilloried for owning slaves and there is serious talk of reparations that the imprerial royal family should be punished , possibly imprisoned for all the wealth stolen from colonizing the world . Englishman John Hawkins founded the African slave trade . Britain gained vast wealth by the most heinous means and today we celebrate the royal family that subjugated so many indigenous people . Crazy world . Prince Charles is the beneficiary of the biggest thieves on the planet . “ steal a little and they’ll put you in jail ; steal a lot and they’ll make you king “ bob Dylan.
It would be really cool if they could make the masks look like Darth Vader’s mask. There could even be Cow Wars movies with Mook Grasswalker and Princess Mooah. It would be awesome.
You would think this kind of unbridled sheer idiocy would turn people off and make them laugh – sooner or later.
Look ma the emperor has no brain!
Vegans are the modern family of ruminants with outdated bulk processing.
Why does the prince back such masks? Because he is a believer.
Why is the prince a believer? Because he’s not very bright.
Why is he not very bright? It runs in the gene pool of the aristocracy.
“The global elite pushing the Great Reset this week emitted thousands of units of carbon dioxide with an estimated lifespan in the atmosphere of 1000 years, meaning carbon dioxide emitted from the year 2022 will still be in the atmosphere in 3022.”
It is a huge disservice to the world to use the idiot NASA 1000 year half-life for CO2 in the atmosphere.
And all CO2 is the same. The half-life of CO2 is about 5 years, NOT 1000 years, as claimed by politicized NASA. And “lifespan” is verbal abuse because it would be a 1000 year half-life, meaning that half would be gone in 1000 years.
Instead, the average 5 year half-life, which has been established from dozens of studies for CO2 and methane, is much more realistic and even a 10-year half-life would indicate a rapid turnover of atmospheric CO2.
It is a serious error to use false numbers used by the alarmists to try to argue against their actions. It’s playing into their hands.
“It is a serious error to use false numbers used by the alarmists to try to argue against their actions. It’s playing into their hands.”
Excellent point.
The cow’s burps produce methane but the cows farts do too. So wouldn’t the cow also need an rear end mask?
Now I recognize the wisdom of immovable stone altars, minus the priests and enforcers of course.
Remind me again why we dispensed with inbread monarchy for leadership.
He’s a fool . .
Isn’t it about time to convert to a wax figure for the monarchy and keeping tradition? It worked well for Lenin. Only the hottest of the hot climate change predictions could melt it.