Now that the EU is up in arms about cow flatulence as a cause of global warming, I'm afraid there's a grave risk that people will simply ignore the newest threat to climate stability -- namely, moose flatulence.
Natasha: Look, Dahlink, it's moose and squirrel.
Rocky: Hokey Smoke, Bullwinkle! We're in real trouble now!
Boris (to Natasha): Hoo boy, I can feel it getting hotter already.
The research web site http://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.
The good news is that this article suggests that moose flatulence is a problem only in countries that use the metric system. My personal car drives in miles, not kilometers.
The bad news is that even though it's therefore the Europeans' metric moose that will create a dangerous number of kilometers of global warming, the Euro-trash will simply blame it on the United States, when actually they should blame it on the dog.
It really worries me that the only obvious solutions appear to be genocide of the moose population or massive "moose offsets." Me, I'm going to cancel my 36 flights from Oslo to Trondheim, wherever that may be.
And when I'm awarded my Nobel, I'll just have to do it by teleconference.