Via Aftenposten:
Amidst all the talk about carbon dioxide emissions and global warming comes news that Norway's national mascot may be contributing to the destruction of the environment, through burping and other bodily functions. . . .
The research web site www.forskning.no has calculated that the annual gas emissions from a moose are equal to those from an individual's 36 flights between Oslo and Trondheim.
A grown moose will burp and pass so much methane gas in the course of a year that it amounts to 2,100 kilos of carbon dioxide emissions.
Newspaper VG reported that a motorist would have to drive 13,000 kilometers in a car to emit the same.
Holy smokes, Bullwinkle! Cut it out for crying out loud.
Posted by: joated | August 21, 2007 at 07:54 PM
That's right, Joated. Blame the moose.
Posted by: gail | August 21, 2007 at 08:00 PM
That should have been: "Hokey smokes, Bullwinkle!" (I misremembered the squirrel's lines!)
THE moose always got it wrong, but they always got it right in the end.
Posted by: joated | August 22, 2007 at 07:08 AM
They expect to kill around 35,000 moose (meese?) of the 120,000 population during the upcoming hunting season. Proof again that hunters really care for the environment!
Posted by: joated | August 22, 2007 at 09:57 AM
I always knew we'd find the root cause of global warming.
Posted by: jondoe | August 22, 2007 at 02:13 PM