Sounds like an idea of a 12 year old scientist, but it’s actually true. Argentina like to know how much gas their 55 million cows produce and science wouldn’t be science if you wouldn’t measure it correctly.

In my mind I only see floating cows over Argentina, causing a panic when they cross over to the Falklands and capture the islands once and for all …

More? Telegraph - Cow farts collected in plastic tank for global warming study

Documentary / Fiction - 1hour 46minutes - 1990 - the sound is a bit out of sync in the second half

I am a huge fan of James Burke - he is one of the great writers and thinker who can connect the dots and explain it all to mere mortals like myself. A science historian and TV producer with an impressive resume.

The first part is an excellent analysis of human history and how the weather influenced human development and history - and he we have influenced the weather. The second part is more fictional - a docu drama if you will - how a global climate watchdog battles global warming and which measures have to be done to change our current unsustainable lifestyle.

This two part series "After the Warming" was produced 1990 - and it freaked me out.

First - it shocked me, that he had already such an insight and clear suggestions in the year 1990, when hardly anyone - and certainly not the mass media - was talking about climate change and global warming.

Second - his "predictions" or better say insights are spot on, especially watching it now almost 20 years after it has been produced.

Third - we have already wasted so much time to change our lifestyle and we are still far behind what would actually be possible to re-balance the weather system.

Although the quality of the video isn’t brilliant - the content is. So please watch it.

BBC News: Vast cracks appear in Arctic ice

It’s melting and melting and melting. I wonder when we start to RALLY do something about climate change? When New Orleans is an underwater museum or Venice a diver’s Disney Land?