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Originally Posted by ottopilot
Interesting, had not seen this one until now. It is absolutely a greater factor in the overall discussion on climate change and falls in line with the disregard of "inconvenient truths" by the IPCC and the man-made global warming proponents.
In my earlier post, I cited the IPCC had reported on the livestock industry. We had discussed this in threads many months ago and I'd forgotten that the IPCC actually failed to include the findings of the 2007 Rome report by the FAO - Food and Agriculture Organization of the U.N. entitled Livestock's Long Shadow.
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Otto...I'm pretty certain the latest IPCC report included the data from the 2006 FAO study.
In the 2007 IPCC report, 57% of global anthropogenic GHG emissions are CO2 (fossil fuel use) .... CH4 and N2O (primarily agriculture) combined are 22%.
In terms of industry sector contributions: 26% energy supply (power plants, coal), 19% heavy industry, 17% forestry, 14% agriculture (your farting cows), 13% transport, 8% residential/commercial buildings.
If you really want to read the
2007 Summary for Policymakers (pdf)
(see Figure SPM.3 - page 5)
The difference between fossil fuel combustion (CO2) and cow farts (CH4) is far more pronounced in the US:
U.S. Anthropogenic Greenhouse Gas Emissions by Gas
Round and round we go.
