Experts: GHG pollution 50% greater than thought, livestock give over 51% of GHGs pa

News Type: Event — Seeded on Wed Nov 18, 2009 3:27 PM EST

Article Source: World Watch

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Seeded by Gideon Polya

World Bank Group environmentalists have re-examined greenhouse gas (GHG) pollution due to methanogenic livestock - total GHG pollution is 50% greater than thought previously and livestock contribute over 51% of total.

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Gideon Polya

Climate criminal Australia has utterly ignored the huge contribution of livestock for man's annual GHG pollution and this latest huge upward re-assessment.

US lackey, war criminal and climate criminal Apartheid Australia has effectively sabotaged the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference before it has even begun and Apartheid Australia has effectively declared "climate war" on the Developing World (see "Australia ignores agriculture GHGs, commits to >50% of current GHG emissions FOREVER & kills Copenhagen": Australia ignores agriculture GHGs, commits to >50% of current GHG emissions FOREVER & kills Copenhagen )..

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#1 - Wed Nov 18, 2009 3:33 PM EST

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demo scout

Wow, the planet is dying because cows fart. Whoda thunk? Can the animal rights people please stop talking nonsense. I love animals too but I'm not giving up chicken, pork, or beef and neither are very many other people going to do so. My brother-in-law's farts are a much bigger threat to me than Bossy's are. Please don't pull his finger!

Let's all meet at the power plant to discuss this. Bring your head lamps so we can find each other in the smoke.

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#2 - Wed Nov 18, 2009 4:04 PM EST

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Gideon Polya

Unfortunately, - as illustrated by the awful example of climate criminal Apartheid Australia that proposes to permanently exclude agriculture from GHG capping - most people are probably not going to readily give up meat or agree to compensatory GHG-reducing mechanisms (renewable energy, retuning carbon to the soil as biochar) - in which case, most of Humanity and the Biosphere are simply DOOMED.

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#3 - Wed Nov 18, 2009 4:35 PM EST

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