But methane, too, is a greenhouse gas, and an odiferous one.
Since the classical era this has usually been the case, so that west-prevailing winds would keep one side fragrant and the other odiferous.
Underneath it all, though, he's the same carnival barker that New Yorkers have had to put up with for decades: an aptly named tub of hot air, whose noisy and odiferous utterances rarely withstand serious scrutiny.
Tuld sweeps in by helicopter, assembles everyone in a conference room at 2 A.M., and, with debonair flourishes, devises a desperate strategy: dump the "greatest pile of odiferous excrement in the history of capitalism" the next day; sell all of it, at discounted rates, in a few hours, before word gets around to buyers that the paper is nearly worthless.
Who had five kitchens, one of them highly ventilated and devoted to "spicy" (i.e. odiferous) food?
It is as well designed as any collector's item and can vanquish odiferous New Yorkers in a single spritz.
In the throes of scurvy, his ship trapped in the ice in the black Antarctic winter, one of the leaders of the first major scientific expedition of the heroic age had been saved from death by a "last meal": penguin that tasted like "beef, odiferous cod fish and a canvas-backed duck, roasted together in a pot with blood and cod-liver oil for sauce".
"The rich magnolia covered with its odiferous blossoms, the holly, the beech, the tall yellow poplar, the hilly ground," he wrote in his journal, enumerating the wonders that greeted him.
Performers slo-mo across the stage, bash thunder sheets, or twirl round until they are sick (odiferous vomit).
In Australia we tend to think of garlic as well, garlic, but Woodward writes about us expanding our thinking, and our knowledge about this wonderful odiferous plant.
It actually fits very neatly between two buttocks and fulfils a variety of roles - faecal, sexual, melodious, odiferous - as well as providing us with an essential epithet for politicians.
