Gauging animal emissions 'too hard'

And those damn corks just won't stay in place | The Australian

PLANS to include agriculture in the Rudd Government's climate change regime should be abandoned because the industry's greenhouse emissions are almost impossible to measure.

One of Australia's foremost greenhouse gas measurement authorities, Hugh Saddler, told The Weekend Australian that emissions from cows and sheep -- thought to account for about 15per cent of Australia's greenhouse gases -- were too difficult to measure and impossible to avoid.