How to solve climate change

[ivor]

Can we just feed them Beano?

[Swatopluk]

Hey, no serious proposals in this thread!   

[Sibling Zono (anon1mat0)]

So, a tent made of a non-permeable material on top of said cows is a serious or non-serious proposal?

[Swatopluk]

Wouldn't that float away after some time?

[Sibling Zono (anon1mat0)]

If properly made it would inflate a bit while it collects the methane and you put piping on top to pull it out to a generator. It's likely to be far from being cost effective but depending on the amount of methane burped proportional to the air on top of the 'tent' it may be workable.

[ivor]

Can't we just put plumbing in them to collect the gas?

[Sibling Zono (anon1mat0)]

Cyborg cows?

[Griffin NoName]

Cows with colostomy bags?

[Swatopluk]

Can't we just put plumbing in them to collect the gas?

We discussed that already. Putting a tube into the anus is (relatively) easy and putting a storage tank on the cow's back too (direct connection to the stables is impractical or the tubes of the whole herd would intertwine during the day). But how to get to the burping methane without blocking the mouth and/or esophagus? A one-way valve would get stuck soon by the solids going down (and it has to go up again for rumination anyway).

[ivor]

Was it serious? 

[Swatopluk]

Was it serious? 

There were indeed serious plans for anti-burping pills for cows in order to reduce methane emissions.

[ivor]

What about human flatulence?  What do we do for that?

[Swatopluk]

I think the main problem there is not the methane but the sulphur compounds.
Some interesting info can be found here and of course in the Historia naturalis vaporum

[Swatopluk]

Spread rumors that higher temperatures and CO₂ levels turn kids gay and increase the probability of conversions to Islam. (for Islamists drop the latter and add "increases the brain power of females")

[Sibling Zono (anon1mat0)]

... and increase the probability of conversions to Islam.

Islam arose and set it's foot hold in desertic areas, so it's plausible that if more desertification happens more 'sense' the nomad Bedouin ethos will make.