The dairy sector accounts for around four percent of all global anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) according to a new FAO report. This figure includes both emissions associated with the production, processing and transportation of milk products as well as emissions related to meat produced from animals originating from the dairy system. Read more . … Continue reading
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Asia / China / Climate Change / Livestock
Cows absolved of causing global warming with nitrous oxide
Livestock could actually be good for the environment according to a new study that found grazing cows or sheep can cut emissions of a powerful greenhouse gas. Dr Butterbach-Bahl said the study overturned assumptions about grazing goats and cattle. “It’s been generally assumed that if you increase livestock numbers you get a rise in emissions … Continue reading
New Zealand optimistic after agricultural greenhouse gases meeting
The Global Research Alliance on Agricultural Greenhouse Gases’ inaugural meeting went well, the Government says. The meeting of senior officials and scientists from the alliance’s 29 member countries, with China, Brazil and Korea attending as observers, was largely about giving organisational form to the political decision in Copenhagen last December to launch a collaborative effort … Continue reading
Grazing cattle reduce some greenhouse gases
A new report published in Nature addresses the impact of nitrous oxide, or N2O, which is about 300 times as powerful as CO2 at trapping heat in the atmosphere. But the Nature study throws an unexpected twist into the N2O story. Biologists had long assumed that the farming of cattle and other livestock was part … Continue reading
Where’s the beef? Scientist takes a second look at UN numbers that have led many environmentalists to forego meat
For those advocating for urgent action on the climate change file, it’s been a rough few months. From the “Climategate” email scandal at the University of East Anglia to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report’s now-debunked claim that Himalayan glaciers could melt by 2035, advocates have been hit by a series of damaging credibility … Continue reading
New Zealand talks on farm emissions start
New Zealand will support developing countries getting benefits from its Global Research Alliance on agricultural greenhouse gases for free, Prime Minister John Key says. The government launched the alliance last year and the first meeting of member countries began in Wellington on Wednesday. The alliance was expected initially to divide its work into four sectors: … Continue reading
Meat vs. mile: Coverage of livestock, transportation emissions hypes controversy
For the last four years, media outlets such as The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and Fox News have repeatedly cited a United Nations study which found that livestock production is responsible for about 18 percent of global greenhouse-gas emissions—a larger share than comes from all planes, trains, and automobiles combined. Last week, … Continue reading
Australia ‘reef and beef’ project launched
An Australian scientist Friday launched what he called a “reef and beef” study into whether feeding cows seaweed would reduce their flatulent carbon emissions, in a move that could help save the Great Barrier Reef. Tony Parker, from James Cook University, said cattle produced up to 20 per cent of global man-made methane emissions, and … Continue reading
Unsupported claims about livestock and climate change in the media
An air quality scientist at UC Davis, Professor Frank Mitloehner, has been in the press talking about implications of his research on livestock production and GHGs. He has been quoted as saying it is “scientifically inaccurate” and a “distraction” to encourage a reduction in meat consumption as part of an effort to combat climate change. … Continue reading
Now it’s CowGate: expert report says claims of livestock causing global warming are false
It is becoming difficult to keep pace with the speed at which the global warming scam is now unravelling. The latest reversal of scientific “consensus” is on livestock and the meat trade as a major cause of global warming – one-fifth of all greenhouse gas emissions, according to eco-vegetarian cranks. Now a scientific report delivered … Continue reading
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