Wetlands, permafrost, termites, oceans and freshwater are all natural sources of the potent greenhouse gas methane. However, the majority of the methane that is changing our climate is caused by human-related activities such as fossil fuel production, biomass burning, waste management and animal husbandry (due to cow farts). The release of methane into the atmosphere by cattle and other large grazing mammals is estimated to account for 12 to 17% of the total global methane release.
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I cannot believe that one huge corporation after another pays no taxes, while everyday people are skinned alive by the IRS if they are off by a few bucks, and the rich are screaming for the end of Social Security and Medicare so they can save a few pennies in taxes they don’t pay anyway. The great lie is that we will get rich ourselves and have lower taxes if we let the rich and the big companies run the country. The people need to take the power from the right AND the left. They only care about their selfish agendas, not us.
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It was almost 7 years ago: Oct. 16, 2004 to be precise. Whitley was scheduled to be on Coast to Coast AM that night, starting at 10 pm. His friend Art Bell was still hosting the show at the time. That afternoon, I staggered up the long flight of stairs from the laundry room at the apartment building where we were staying at the time, complaining of a terrible headache. Then I collapsed on the floor and began having seizures. Whitley immediately knew what was wrong and called an ambulance, which took me to the nearest hospital, one that Whitley was dismayed to discover had an obviously second-rate neurology department.
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