United Kingdom-Carbon Emissions Tax for farmers.

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CARBON EMISSIONS.
Farmers globally are all on alert about the proposed tax for carbon emissions. The propped new tax for farting cows is going to cost the average farmer around AU$6,000 a year.

If the research is to be believed that cows are the culprits for the climate change, not the motor cars that have been blamed for the last 50 years, the history, would have to be re-written.

Nineteenth-century cities depended on horses to move people and goods from place to place. There were 11,000 horse drawn taxis in London at the turn of the century, along with several thousand horse drawn buses, each one requiring 12 horse a day, as well as tens of thousands of traps, carts and drays.

It is estimated there were100,000 horses on the streets of London every day, each one producing around 10 kilos of manure. This is two thousand tons of manure a day in London alone and one can safely assume a good deal of passing wind.

If the manure was not scooped up immediately, which it was not of course, it dried into a powder form, blowing over peoples cloths and into their hair and eyes. As the cities grew more horses were needed.

A report in the London Times in 1894, estimated that in 50 years, the streets of London would be buried under 3 metres of horse manure, in fact within 45 years the horses were replaced by the car.

Before the war with the burning of coal in every home north of Taunton, known today as dirty coal, steam ships driven by coal, every town with a local gas works burning coal 24 hours a day, factories with towering chimneys pouring out smoke and swailing every year on the moors of England, which was burning off the dry bush. Trains burning coal criss- crossing the world 24 hours a day, burning coal and billowing out steam from one chimney and coal smoke from the other, are we now to believe that the horses and cattle were to blame all the time for the ozone problems.

So before the farmers on the world get out their cheque, books to pay the demanded carbon emissions tax. How did we get from the Ice Age to today’s climate, was that not global warming on a far bigger scale, who was responsible for that particular meltdown !.

We are taught at school that was evolution.

Anyone from the baby boomer era will recall the song “A Foggy Day in London Town”, where the fog was in fact smog known as pea soup. North of Birmingham was known as the Black Country, as the soot from the houses and factories turned all the brickwork on buildings black.

Yes indeed there may be things we can do to help the ozone layer, but seriously are we to believe it the fault of our farting cattle and blame the farmer again..