This Global Warming problem is getting out of hand, today we read the increasing temperatures could lead to the end of the moose and wolf population at Isle Royale.

“Humans have made summers increasingly hot, which likely exacerbates moose ticks,” says John Vucetich, a population biologist in Michigan Tech’s School of Forest Resources and Environmental Science. “Both the heat and the ticks are detrimental to moose. If wolves go extinct for a lack of moose, humans will be to blame.”

Clearly something needs to be done to protect these animals from extinction! As many scientists will tell you, human beings are a plague on the planet and need to be stopped. It was one thing when our careless actions only affected our own life’s, but now that we are beginning to threaten the life of the moose with our man made global warming, maybe the only thing that will save us will be less people on the planet.

Obviously the above paragraph is meant to be satirical, although as anyone who knows me will tell you, I do not have the best sense of humor so I won’t be offended if you didn’t find it amusing. What you should find amusing however is an article printed only 2 days ago stating grown moose can produce 2,100 kilos of carbon dioxide a year — equivalent to the CO2 output resulting from a 13,000 kilometer car journey.

Norway is concerned that its national animal, the moose, is harming the climate by emitting an estimated 2,100 kilos of carbon dioxide a year through its belching and farting.

Norwegian newspapers, citing research from Norway’s technical university, said a motorist would have to drive 13,000 kilometers in a car to emit as much CO2 as a moose does in a year.

Bacteria in a moose’s stomach create methane gas which is considered even more destructive to the environment than carbon dioxide gas. Cows pose the same problem.

So as you can see, these moose who scientists are worried about dying off, are actually the cause of global warming. The increasing temperatures caused by their gaseous emissions is increasing the earth’s temperature, and the increasing temperatures are in turn killing off the moose. Seems like a self correcting problem to me, once there are no more moose, there will be less carbon dioxide, meaning no more global warming!

I wonder if this is what happened to the dinosaurs?

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