# Worms Cause Global Warming! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 25, 2007, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worms-cause-global-warming/409412 "2007-06-25T23:48:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2007, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worms-cause-global-warming/409412/1 "2007-06-25T23:48:19Z")
I don’t know why, but I found [this](http://www.shortnews.com/start.cfm?id=63227) amusing. > [@](#): > > Jim Frederickson, the research director at the Composting Association has called for data on worms and composting to be re-examined after a German study found that worms produce greenhouse gases 290 times more potent than carbon dioxide. (Mods: It is a very tiny article, have I quoted too much?) ---
**Author:** ![phouka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c5a1d2/32.png) [@phouka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phouka)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2007, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worms-cause-global-warming/409412/2 "2007-06-25T23:51:14Z")
Wait, I thought the lack of pirates caused global warming… ---
**Author:** ![Marlitharn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/779978/32.png) [@Marlitharn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marlitharn)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2007, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worms-cause-global-warming/409412/3 "2007-06-26T00:53:35Z")
Heh. Worm farts. If a worm farts in a tunnel, and there’s no one there to hear it, does it still impact the environment? Ask not for whom the worm farts…it farts for thee. It’s quiet. Too quiet. So quiet you can hear a worm fart. Yeah, it’s official. “Worm farts” has now replaced “Nutbunnies!” as my new favorite non-swear word.