- Governments worldwide are imposing strict regulations on farmers to reduce methane emissions from livestock, using supplements like Bovaer.
- A study from the CO2 Coalition argues that methane’s warming potential is negligible compared to CO2.
- Methane concentrations are increasing 300 times slower than CO2, and its warming effect is minimal due to saturation at higher concentrations.
- Recent research indicates that microbial sources, not fossil fuels, are the primary contributors to rising methane levels.
- Policies targeting methane from agriculture are based on shaky science and threaten farmers’ livelihoods and food affordability.
As climate alarmism continues to take over headlines in the mainstream media, methane emissions from cows have become the latest target of overzealous policymakers. Governments worldwide, from the Netherlands to the United Kingdom, are imposing draconian regulations on farmers, forcing them to feed their livestock methane-reducing supplements like Bovaer. But is this war on methane justified? A growing body of scientific evidence suggests that the climate impact of methane has been grossly exaggerated, and the policies targeting agriculture are based on shaky, if not outright pseudoscientific, foundations.
The “Methane and Climate” study, authored by physicists William Happer and W. A. van Wijngaarden, has emerged as a critical rebuttal to the prevailing narrative. Published by the CO2 Coalition, the study meticulously dismantles the claim that methane from agriculture poses a significant threat to the planet. By analyzing the radiative properties of methane, the authors conclude that its warming potential is negligible compared to carbon dioxide (CO2). Despite this, climate activists and policymakers continue to push for costly and disruptive measures that threaten the livelihoods of farmers and the affordability of food for consumers.
The science behind methane’s limited impact
At the heart of the debate is the concept of radiative forcing, which measures how greenhouse gases trap heat in the atmosphere. While methane is often labeled a “super pollutant,” Happer and van Wijngaarden’s research reveals that its warming effect is minimal. Methane molecules are far less abundant than CO2, and their warming potential is heavily “saturated” at higher concentrations. In other words, adding more methane to the atmosphere has a diminishing effect on global temperatures.
Research also highlights that methane concentrations are increasing at a rate 300 times slower than CO2, making its annual contribution to warming roughly one-tenth that of CO2. This stands in stark contrast to the apocalyptic rhetoric often used by climate activists, who portray methane as a dire threat to the planet.
Methane’s true sources are microbes, not fossil fuels
Adding to the growing skepticism of methane alarmism is a recent study published in PNAS, which found that the surge in atmospheric methane is primarily driven by microbial sources, not fossil fuels. Using isotopic analysis, researchers determined that wetlands, agriculture, and waste—not oil and gas production—are the main contributors to rising methane levels. This finding undermines the narrative that targeting fossil fuels is the key to reducing methane emissions.
Moreover, a study published in Nature Geoscience revealed that methane’s warming effect has been overstated. The research found that methane’s absorption of solar radiation actually reduces its overall warming impact by about 30 percent. This counterintuitive discovery challenges the simplistic view of methane as a major driver of climate change and raises questions about the validity of current climate models.
Climate alarmism is costing farmers
Despite the mounting evidence, governments are doubling down on policies that punish farmers. In the U.K., major supermarkets like Tesco and Aldi are already sourcing milk from cows fed Bovaer, a supplement that inhibits methane production. While some consumers have boycotted these products, many have no choice but to purchase them as alternatives become scarce.
The British government has gone a step further, mandating that all suitable cattle be given Bovaer by 2030. This decision has sparked widespread concern about the long-term health effects of consuming dairy products from medicated cows. Critics argue that the safety of Bovaer has not been sufficiently studied, and its potential risks to human health remain unknown.
The war on methane is a prime example of how climate alarmism is driving irrational and harmful policies. Farmers, who are essential to feeding the world, are being scapegoated for a problem that is largely exaggerated. The scientific evidence clearly shows that methane’s impact on global warming is minimal, and its sources are more natural than anthropogenic.
It is time for policymakers to reject the pseudoscience fueling the methane panic and embrace a more balanced approach to climate policy. Instead of punishing farmers, governments should focus on supporting agricultural innovation and ensuring food security. The public must demand greater transparency and rigor in climate science, and resist the fearmongering that has come to dominate the debate.
The methane myth is just one example of how climate alarmism is being used to advance a radical agenda. It is time to push back against these false narratives and restore common sense to the climate conversation.
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Two Storms, One Harvest
Every food crisis in living memory has been a one-shock event. The 2008 price spike was a commodity bubble. The 2020 shortages were a logistics failure. The 2022 grain scare was a war on one exporter’s ports. Each time, the system bent, adjusted, and recovered, and each time the experts assured us afterward that global markets are simply too big and too diversified to fail.
What nobody in Washington seems eager to discuss is that 2026 is shaping up to be something the modern food system has never actually faced. Two independent shocks, one climatic and one geopolitical, are converging on the same harvest cycle at the same time. Not sequentially. Simultaneously.
Start with the weather. The Pacific Ocean is currently building toward what forecasters now openly call a record event. NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center puts the odds of at least a strong El Niño near 88 percent, with roughly two in three odds it reaches “very strong” status, the tier reserved for perhaps three or four events in the entire satellite era. Every major global model now projects a median peak in Super El Niño territory, and most of them project it exceeding the 2015-16 event, which until now held the modern record. Sea surface anomalies were already brushing the super threshold in mid-July, months before these events normally peak. The atmosphere has already shifted into El Niño mode, and the event is forecast to crest in late fall and early winter.
This is not about “climate change.” It’s about the standard cycles of weather, and the cycle we’re currently in is one that has likely devastated societies in the past. We’re better prepared as a society today, but not all Americans are equally prepared.
Serious households have started doing the quiet math on their own. Grocery bills tell part of the story, and the forecast maps tell the rest, which is why long-term food storage has moved from fringe hobby to mainstream line item in the family budget, with established suppliers like Heaven’s Harvest seeing demand from people who five years ago would have rolled their eyes at the idea. That instinct is not paranoia. It is pattern recognition, and the pattern is worth walking through carefully.
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The Fertilizer Clock Is Already Running
While the Pacific warms, the second shock has been unfolding in the Strait of Hormuz. The conflict with Iran turned the world’s most important energy chokepoint into a contested waterway, and the consequences reach far beyond the gas pump. Roughly a third of global fertilizer trade moves through Hormuz, and the disruption sent urea prices up 86 percent year over year by March, with a 53 percent jump in a single month.
The World Bank projects energy prices rising about 24 percent in 2026 and fertilizer about 31 percent. By its own accounting, fertilizer prices ran 35 percent higher in the first five months of this year than the same period last year.
Here is the mechanism the nightly news will not explain. Fertilizer is not a grocery item. It is a time-delayed input. The nitrogen a farmer in Iowa or Punjab could not afford to apply this spring does not show up as a problem this spring. It shows up as a thinner harvest six to twelve months later.
The World Bank’s own food security brief concedes that the effects of reduced applications earlier this season “are likely to become visible only later in harvest outcomes.” Translate that from institutional language into plain English and it means this. The damage is already done, it is already in the ground, and we are simply waiting for it to arrive on the shelf.
Now check the calendar. Six to twelve months from the spring planting season lands us squarely in late 2026 and early 2027. Which is precisely when the strongest El Niño in the instrumental record is forecast to peak, bringing its signature droughts to Southeast Asia, Australia, southern Africa, northern Brazil, and South Asia, the very regions that grow the world’s rice, sugar, and oilseeds.
The World Bank warns openly that a strong El Niño “could disrupt multiple crop belts simultaneously” on top of the conflict-driven input costs. Their baseline projection assumes the Middle East disruptions ease by autumn. What in the last two years of Middle East history suggests that assumption is safe?
The System Has No Slack Left
The comfortable answer is that global markets always adjust. But adjustment requires slack, and the slack is gone. Global cereal production is expected to decline from last year’s records even before El Niño does its work. The UN World Food Programme, hardly a den of right-wing preppers, is calling this the most significant disruption to its supply chains since Covid and the invasion of Ukraine, and its supply chain director put the stakes bluntly.
Today’s supply chain challenges are tomorrow’s hunger crisis.
There is also a political dimension that markets cannot price. When food gets scarce, governments do not behave like economists. They behave like politicians. Export bans, hoarding mandates, and panic buying at the national level turned the modest rice shortfall of 2008 into a global crisis, and analysts are already warning that import-dependent nations are the first dominoes.
The 2015-16 Super El Niño, a far weaker event than what is now forecast, threw tens of millions into food stress across Africa and Asia. This one is projected to be stronger, and it arrives with fertilizer already rationed by price and shipping lanes already contested by missiles.
What Joseph Knew
Scripture does not treat preparation for lean years as faithlessness. It treats it as wisdom delivered in advance to those willing to act on it.
Behold, there come seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt: And there shall arise after them seven years of famine; and all the plenty shall be forgotten in the land of Egypt.
Joseph did not respond to that warning with a hashtag or a committee. He stored grain during the years of abundance, and when the famine came, Egypt stood while its neighbors begged. The lesson is not that famine is certain. It is that the time to prepare is precisely when preparation still looks optional.
Nobody who filled a pantry in a year of plenty has ever regretted it, and nobody standing in an empty aisle has ever been glad he waited for certainty.
None of this calls for panic, and panic is the enemy of sound judgment anyway. It calls for the same unglamorous prudence our grandparents considered ordinary. Keep some cash margin, know your local growers, and put real food in deep storage while it is cheap and available, because the entire arc of this story is that cheap and available is a closing window.
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