Amazing sporting facts from the President
of the Clarence Environment and Sports Club. 
That global warming is proven to be caused by the Greenhouse Effect?
That the Greenhouse (hothouse) Effect is the build-up of carbon dioxide (CO2), Nitrous Oxide (NO), methane (CH4) and fluorocarbons in the upper atmosphere?
That this forms a blanket around the earth which keeps heat from being reflected back into space?
That to feed a US family beef for a year requires over 1000 litres of fossil fuel?
That that quantity of fuel releases 2.5 tonnes of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere?
That in the United States, 70% of all grains grown are fed to livestock, mostly cattle?
That Australia is following in the U.S. wake?
That to grow grain crops needs plowing, seeding, pesticide and herbicide spraying, harvesting etc of the land – all mechanised. Then there is transport.
That living trees produce alkaloids and terpenes that constrain termite activity?
That once the tree is killed (either naturally or after logging, clear felling or burning) termite populations expand?
That when timber/forest is burnt, it emits not only carbon dioxide but methane also?
That cattle emit approximately 12% of the world's methane emissions?
That a methane molecule traps 25 times as much heat as a carbon dioxide molecule?
That in the next 40 years, methane will supplant CO2 as the primary greenhouse gas?
That termites emit methane?
That termite populations increase by up to a factor of ten in cleared forest land?
That the earth’s rapidly expanding termite population is believed to contribute additional millions of tonnes of methane to the atmosphere each year?
That nitrous oxide is released in to the atmosphere from petrochemical fertilizers?
That nitrous oxide is another of the greenhouse producing gases?
That chemical fertilizers are increasingly used to produce the grain for feeding livestock, principally cattle?
That nitrous oxide accounted for 6% of the global warming effects in 1990?
-Jim Knight