Because meat production is so resource intensive, livestock farming actually accounts for 18% of global greenhouse gas emissions.
According to a recent article from Scientific American, agriculture is responsible for one third of global greenhouse gas emissions from human activity.
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Global greenhouse gas emissions have risen even faster during the past decade than predicted by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and other international agencies.
Built into it was a stipulation that it would become legally binding only once it had been ratified by 55 separate countries, but also by enough Annex 1 countries to collectively account for 55 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions.
For example, Merrill Lynch shares the view of many environmental and conservation NGOs that the most effective way to address deforestation which is responsible for 20 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions is to create a financial incentive to keep forests standing.
Consider what would be necessary to slash global greenhouse-gas emissions just 50% below 2000 levels by 2050--a far less aggressive goal than what the enviros say is necessary to avert climate catastrophe.
"Considering the rapid depletion of the world's oil reserve, the heightened global interest in addressing greenhouse gas emissions and the geopolitical complications of global oil supply and demand, " a report by the U.S. Department of Energy concluded.
If it expires with no successor lined up, some worry that global efforts to curb greenhouse gas emissions will fall apart.
"I'm convinced that if we work at it, that we will be able to convince India and China that it is in their interest to be part of a global agreement to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, " McCain said.
Specifically, the 3C wants governments to set maximum permissible levels for a global temperature increase and define greenhouse gas reduction targets by 2030 and 2050.
"Rapid deployment of energy-efficient technologies would postpone this complete lock-in to 2022, buying time to secure a much-needed global agreement to cut greenhouse-gas emissions, " says the IEA outlook.
But data from global weather satellites and more comprehensive weather balloons show no hotspot, and no fingerprint, which means no serious global warming due to human greenhouse gas emissions.
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The inability to establish a legally-binding, global agreement to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions has been attributed to lack of political will, the lobbying efforts of industry groups, incompetent journalists, impotent international institutions, uncompromising environmentalists, greedy capitalists, public apathy and stupidity.
Scientists presume that carbon sinks can slow the effects of global warming by trapping the main greenhouse gas, carbon dioxide.
Only during the last quarter of the century was there an appreciable correlation between greenhouse gas trends and global temperature trends.
At a climate change conference in Brussels on Tuesday, the Deputy Prime Minister, John Prescott, told European Union ministers there was a "causal link" between greenhouse gas emissions, global warming and the serious flooding affecting much of Britain.
Others note that Mr Bush's speech also repeated his support for un-green measures such as his Clear Skies Initiative, a bill to regulate emissions from power plants that excludes carbon dioxide (the principal greenhouse gas responsible for global warming), and his energy bill, which strongly boosts coal and nuclear power and proposes opening up protected areas of Alaska to oil-drilling.
But they emphasise that anthropogenic global warming (AGW) driven by greenhouse gas emissions is very much in their picture.
He pledged his government's commitment to developing clean energy sources and reducing greenhouse gas emissions that cause global warming.
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Destruction of the world's forests releases large quantities of CO2, which form part of the greenhouse gas emissions that cause global warming.
The UN models agree with established science that if human greenhouse gas emissions were causing global warming, there should be a hot spot of higher temperatures in the troposphere above the tropics, where collected concentrations would have the greatest effect, and the warming would show up first.
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One obvious way to raise the funds is to sell greenhouse gas emissions permits on a global basis, rather than giving them away as under the current Kyoto Protocol.
Other companies also appear to be making more progress than Apple on reducing greenhouse gas emissions that are blamed for global warming.
President Bush said Friday the United States and the rest of the world's worst polluters should work together to set a goal for reducing greenhouse gas emissions that have triggered a global increase in temperature.
But to do so on a global scale would require turning trillions of tons of greenhouse-gas emissions into a substance that could be stored cheaply and easily underground or in ocean beds.
So its greenhouse gas output is an infinitesimal fraction of the global total.
Rejected as unworkable and unacceptably costly the Kyoto Protocol aimed at reducing manmade greenhouse gas emissions that are said to contribute to global warming.
In an effort to find a solution to this roadblock, the Pew Center on Global Climate Change released the report, Developing Countries and Global Climate Change, that details four alternative paths to cut greenhouse gas emissions.
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In 2001, however, President George Bush withdrew the U.S. -- the world's largest greenhouse gas polluter, responsible for approximately 25% of global emissions -- from the Protocol (Australia also withdrew).
The way to deal with climate change we are causing is to see the opportunity for a new global economy and new ways of living in the effort to bring net greenhouse gas emissions to an end.
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