Elephants in the popular imagination: Feted and confounded in equal, undeserved, measure...
...not usually being one to take offence from what I see in the popular press, being, as it happens, one that pretends not to have time to read the popular press, I will now blow my carefully built cover to bring to your attention a couple of throwaway images that caught my eye yesterday.
Firstly, without wanting to get after the Tourism Authority of Thailand too much, without quibbling with their use of elephants as the face of Thailand and not wanting to deny that elephants are the best four by four by far (to borrow someone else's tag line) whoever came up with the zero carbon emissions idea has obviously not spent an afternoon in my office-above-the-babies or stood behind Boun Na as she prepares herself to climb the hill.
Methane, if I remember my A-level Chemistry, is a basic hydrocarbon (CH4) and is certainly emitted here - eles must take some blame...
...but not all of it - I thought the following, from the Bangkok Post, was a little unfair.
Firstly, without wanting to get after the Tourism Authority of Thailand too much, without quibbling with their use of elephants as the face of Thailand and not wanting to deny that elephants are the best four by four by far (to borrow someone else's tag line) whoever came up with the zero carbon emissions idea has obviously not spent an afternoon in my office-above-the-babies or stood behind Boun Na as she prepares herself to climb the hill.
Methane, if I remember my A-level Chemistry, is a basic hydrocarbon (CH4) and is certainly emitted here - eles must take some blame...
...but not all of it - I thought the following, from the Bangkok Post, was a little unfair.
Posted by John Roberts at Wed, 08 Oct 2008 07:41:00 GMT 
Categories: Footnotes unworthy of an intelligent internationalist
Categories: Footnotes unworthy of an intelligent internationalist
According to wiki-answers (and it was not I who asked the question), elephants produce 2000 litres of methane a day. This compares to 300 - 500 a day for cows.
I suppose the question is, how did they measure it?
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Quite so, I well recall long Tiger Tops, TV free, kukhri rum sodden, cold winter evenings by the fire in Nepal devising methods by which it might be trapped and used to run the Land Rovers.
Lot's of dustbin liners and duct tape envisaged but we never solved the tail problem.
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