Atlantic Hurricane Season slowest since 1997; Global tropical cyclone activity near 30-year lows...Remember, hurricane's are Mother Gaia's way of eliminating excess heat. If there are few hurricanes Mother Gaia must not be having hot flashes.
Saturday, October 31, 2009
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My Sweet Polly Purebred chortled at your witty ending comment, Rick!
Hot flashes indeed. . .
In the run up to the Copenhagen climate change conference, it is vital the following information be disseminated to the public as well as to our political leaders.
A widely cited 2006 report by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, Livestock's Long Shadow, estimates that 18 percent of annual worldwide greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are attributable to livestock….however recent analysis by Goodland and Anhang co-authors of "Livestock and Climate Change" in the latest issue of World Watch magazine found that livestock and their byproducts actually account for at least 32.6 billion tons of carbon dioxide per year, or 51 percent of annual worldwide GHG emissions!
http://www.worldwatch.org/files/pdf/Livestock%20and%20Climate%20Change.pdf
The main sources of GHGs from animal agriculture are: (1) Deforestation of the rainforests to grow feed for livestock. (2) Methane from manure waste. – Methane is 72 times more potent as a global warming gas than CO2 (3) Refrigeration and transport of meat around the world. (4) Raising, processing and slaughtering of the animal.
Meat production also uses a massive amount of water and other resources which would be better used to feed the world’s hungry and provide water to those in need.
Based on their research, Goodland and Anhang conclude that replacing livestock products with soy-based and other alternatives would be the best strategy for reversing climate change. They say "This approach would have far more rapid effects on GHG emissions and their atmospheric concentrations-and thus on the rate the climate is warming-than actions to replace fossil fuels with renewable energy."
You can't reverse climate change. The climate is always changing, always has. The earth stopped warming in 1998 and no amount of flatulent cows is going to change that. Quick drinking the global warming Kool-Aid, Anonymous.
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