Critics round on Lord Stern over vegetarian call
Farmers and meat companies across Britain reacted with a mixture of anger and exasperation yesterday after one of the world’s leading climate change campaigners urged people to become vegetarian to...
View ArticleStudy claims meat creates half of all greenhouse gases
Climate change emissions from meat production are far higher than currently estimated, according to a controversial new study that will fuel the debate on whether people should eat fewer animal...
View ArticleStudy Says Undersea Release of Methane Is Under Way
Climate scientists have long warned that global warming could unlock vast stores of the greenhouse gas methane that are frozen into the Arctic permafrost, setting off potentially significant increases...
View ArticleMethane 23 times more potent than CO2 averaged over a 100 year period
Methane is 23 times more harmful to the climate than CO2 averaged over a 100 year period. Source: Livestock’s Long Shadow – Environmental Issues and Options Date: 2006
View ArticleLivestock produces more GHG than cars
Rearing cattle produces more greenhouse gases than driving cars. “Livestock are one of the most significant contributors to today’s most serious environmental problems”, said Henning Steinfeld, senior...
View ArticleAbrupt Climate Change Could be Brought About by Leaking Methane
Significant amounts of methane found to be leaking from permafrost in the East Siberian Arctic Shelf could push the world closer to the tipping points for abrupt climate changes. According to a study...
View Article‘Frozen’ methane gas molecules, when melted, expand to 164 times their frozen...
Methane gas molecules locked in cages of water ice are in such a concentrated form that when ice melts they expand to 164 times their frozen volume and are 72 times more potent than carbon dioxide as a...
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Methane concentrations have increased 150% since 1750, far exceeding natural...
NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies have found that that methane concentrations have increased 150% since 1750, far exceeding the natural range of the past 650,000 years. In line with these...
View ArticleMeat production responsible for 31% of EU GHG emissions; livestock reduction...
According to a paper presented to the Society of Animal Feed Technologists (UK), food production from farm to fork is responsible for up to 31 percent of EU greenhouse gas emissions and 20% of UK...
View ArticleLivestock produce 37% of human-induced methane
The livestock sector produces 37% of all human-induced methane (a much more strongly warming greenhouse agent than CO2), which is largely produced by the digestive system of ruminants such as cattle....
View ArticleMethane to have the greatest effect on global warming in the next 20 years,...
While less than half of the warming in the next 20 years will be caused by CO2, other gases such as methane, and black carbon particles (soot) will have the greatest effect. According to Professor Kirk...
View ArticleMethane reduction should take precedence as climate change mitigation...
Given that only half of global warming is due to CO2, while another half is caused mainly by methane, world-leading scientists such as Professor of Global Environmental Health Kirk Smith and NASA’s...
View ArticleMethane nearly 100 times more warming over 5 years than CO2; can be removed...
In the article “Global warming in the twenty-first century: An alternative scenario“, world-leading climatologist James Hansen looks at the effects of non-CO2 on climate change. Citing this and other...
View Article1 ton of methane emitted today warms more in one year than one ton of CO2...
A ton of methane emitted today will exert more warming in one year than a ton of CO2 emitted today would exert until 2075. In the article “Methane controls before risky geoengineering, please“, UC...
View ArticleGlobal warming could release tons of methane locked in permafrost that will...
Vast amounts of methane are locked in permafrost layers of Siberia, Northern Europe and North America. Global warming could trigger thawing that could release billions of tons into the atmosphere...
View ArticleMethane is 72 times more potent than CO2 over a 20 year period
While the 23-times figure of Methane’s CO2 equivalence is still widely cited, this figure is not reflective of methane’s true global warming potency, as it is based on a 100-year activity window....
View ArticleCO2 emissions have zero effect in the near-term due to cancelling effect of...
CO2 emissions are actually having roughly zero effect on global temperatures in the near-term, due to the cancelling effects of aerosols, which are produced by fuel burning such as in cars and power...
View ArticleRuminant livestock emit 80 million tons of methane per year, with US cattle...
According to the US Environmental Protection Agency: “[g]lobally, ruminant livestock produce about 80 million metric tons of methane annually, accounting for about 28% of global methane emissions from...
View ArticleResearch Suggests Large Mammals Influenced Global Climate
More than 13,000 years ago, millions of large mammals such as mammoths, mastodon, shrub-ox, bison, ground sloths and camels roamed the Americas and may have had profound influences on the environment...
View ArticleMammoths contributed to global warming with methane emissions
Together with other large plant-eating mammals that are now extinct, they released around 9.6 million tonnes of the gas each year, experts estimated. When the ”megafauna” disappeared there was a...
View ArticleEU sets out sustainable biofuel criteria
The UK’s biofuel industry will have to deliver “substantial improvements” if it is to comply with new EU-wide sustainability standards that are due to come into effect by the end of the year. Late last...
View ArticleExperts Warn Climate Change Is Beginning to Disrupt Agriculture
With the added environmental stresses of climate change, prices of staple crops could double Every nation — developed and otherwise — is dependent upon a stable agricultural sector, and climate change...
View ArticleMethane releases in arctic seas could wreak devastation
Massive releases of methane from arctic seafloors could create oxygen-poor dead zones, acidify the seas and disrupt ecosystems in broad parts of the northern oceans, new preliminary analyses suggest....
View ArticleCan we control black carbon in the Arctic by reducing agricultural fires?
Looking forward to seeing the presentations and meeting reports from the ‘International Meeting on Open Burning and the Arctic: Causes, Impacts, and Mitigation Approaches‘ conference held in St....
View ArticleShorter Lived Climate Forcers: Agriculture Sector and Land Clearing for...
In this video presentation, Gerard Wedderburn-Bisshop, World Preservation Foundation Senior Scientist, puts forward the case for how, with the devastating effects of climate change being felt...
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Radical Natural Climate Solutions
In the lead up to COP18, climate scientists are desperate for solutions, but few countries are willing to take bold action. The world is on track for 6° warming: we have reached a point where radical...
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