Wild pigs are bigger polluters than farting cows and 1 million gas-driven cars

In a recent study of feral pigs, researchers found that these innocent critters have a bigger impact on climate than gas-driven cars and even farting cows, which they refused to discuss. [H/T Study Finds]

A research team from the University of Queensland [Go, Fightin' Faeries!] say that by uprooting carbon trapped in soil, these delicious animals are releasing almost 5 million tons of carbon dioxide annually across the planet. That's more climate impact than 1.1 million cars and who knows how many gassy cows. [Sorry, AOC].

This finding is most disturbing to wealthy Democrats who complain that if you don't let the pigs dig in the dirt, or play in muddy puddles, there will be a huge truffles shortage. [I always wondered how the chocolate doesn't get ruined.]

I'll try not to get too scientific, but an international research team used predictive population models and advanced mapping techniques to pinpoint the damage wild pigs are causing across five continents. The little jerks plow through fields and turn over the soil to find food. You will soon understand why their foraging is a problem.

Dr. Christopher O’Bryan from the University of Queensland warns that the world’s ever-expanding population of feral pigs could be a “significant threat” to the climate.

“Wild pigs are just like tractors ploughing through fields, turning over soil to find food,” O’Bryan says in a media release. “When soils are disturbed from humans ploughing a field or, in this case, from wild animals uprooting, carbon is released into the atmosphere.” And this is a far bigger problem than cow farts and plastic bags.

“Since soil contains nearly three times as much carbon than in the atmosphere, even a small fraction of carbon emitted from soil has the potential to accelerate climate change,” the study author continues. “Our models show a wide range of outcomes, but they indicate that wild pigs are most likely currently uprooting an area of around 36,000 to 124,000 square kilometers, in environments where they’re not native.” 

Thus, illegal alien pigs are a threat to the planet, whereas farting cows provide milk and cheese.

So get rid of the pigs or we're all going to die in whatever is left of the 12 years AOC warned us about.

The findings actually appear in the journal Global Change Biology.

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