Reference: Paddy field methane emissions could be cut, Bangkok Post, September 3, 2007

I was astonished to read that ASEAN has allowed itself to be bamboozled by the West into culpability for producing methane gas in rice fields and thereby endangering the planet. Methane production is a natural thing. A dead tree rotting in the wilderness produces methane as does farting by humans and all other animals. Rice production worldwide produces less than 1% of the methane. If the ASEAN wants to do something meaningful it might wish to stick with its supposed Agreement on Transboundary Haze Pollution and see if it can convince us that it really is an agreement.

Cha-am Jamal