Holy cow, the climate crowd is full of bull

Wildfire smoke has again spread across large swaths of the United States, some of it settling into our Montana valley.

As I watch it drift across the landscape, I have questions.

Until climate activists learn proportion, humility, and a willingness to live under the rules they prescribe for everyone else, let the cows fart in their general direction.

For most of my adult life, I have heard that cattle are harming the climate. The public warning is often reduced to a crude slogan: Cow flatulence is destroying the planet.

Cattle actually release far more methane by belching than by farting. That distinction is easily missed by people who lecture ranchers about animals they have never raised.

Some of those lecturers also live on a scale few ranchers could imagine.

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