In a recent article published in the London Observer last week, UN Climate guru, “Dr. Rajendra Pachauri, chair of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which last year earned a joint share of the Nobel Peace Prize, said that people should cut down their meat consumption in order to save the planet. It’s the contention of the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization that one fifth of global greenhouse emissions are caused by cattle flatulence. They neglected to add that cows burp as well.  Therefore, according to these “climate experts,” most of mankind should change its diet of thousands of years in order to lessen a problem that likely, in the opinion of many including me, doesn’t exist. As you may gather, I think global warming is nonsense.

He was quoted in the article as saying. “In terms of immediacy of action and the feasibility of bringing about reductions in a short period of time, it clearly is the most attractive opportunity. Give up meat for one day [a week] initially, and decrease it from there,’ said the Indian economist, who is a vegetarian.” It’s an interesting coincidence that he, a Hindu, doesn’t eat meat anyway and therefore isn’t required to change his lifestyle at all. If everyone in the world became a vegetarian, wouldn’t that increase human flatulence—particularly if ones diet included a lot of legumes and beans? Surely that wouldn’t suit the activists either. Dr. Pachauri didn’t say how adopting this drastic change in lifestyle would delay the end of the world.

Dr. Pachauri is not a climatologist. He has numerous degrees including a PhD in Industrial Engineering and a PhD in Economics. This indicates that he’s intelligent and well educated. It does not; however, mean that he knows any more about the climate than Al Gore, with whom he shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize. A lot of folks, me included, wonder what being a global warming activist has to do with world peace?

Most anything that comes from the UN is suspect. The organization that was founded to promote peace and prevent war is now run by third world bureaucrats and despotic governments. Their ultimate goal is to set up a universal tax so that citizens of all western civilized countries have to support the organization and finance their schemes designed to fill the pockets of headquarters staffers—remember the “Oil for Food” scandal? I’m for moving the UN out of New York and shifting it to Mtakataka or Timbuktu.

On a more positive note, scientists in New Zealand have developed a "flatulence inoculation" aimed at cutting down on the massive amount of methane produced by its sheep and cows—sort of an ovine and bovine Beano. As a signatory to the Kyoto Protocol, a useless document that the US wisely declined to adopt, New Zealand must reduce its greenhouse gas emissions to 5.2 percent below 1990 levels by 2012. New Zealand's farmers have expressed their disgust at government plans to impose an animal "flatulence tax" by sending parcels of manure to members of parliament.

It might be a good idea if American scientists got the New Zealand recipe and gave it to our own livestock. While it isn’t likely to prevent global warming, it might serve to get the “animal flatulence” activists off our backs for a while.

This story is a good example of what we can expect in the future. Activists of all stripes will be demanding that everyone in the world change their ways and follow the social change kooks in order to save the world from global warming or the disaster du jour.