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Half of WorldâEUR(TM)s Greenhouse Gas Emissions Caused By Livestock : EcoWorldly


Environment  (tags: greenhouse gas, Jeff Anhang, livestock emissions, meat production, meat substitutes, methane, Robert Goodland, United Nations, world bank, Worldwatch Institute )

Pirjo
- 42 days ago - ecoworldly.com
According to a new report published by the Worldwatch Institute, global emissions caused by the "lifecycle and supply chain of animals raised for food" are much higher than previously thought.
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Judy Cross (84)
Wednesday November 4, 2009, 6:07 pm
There is no reason to restrict anything. The emphasis is now switching to methane because CO2 is soooo over.

Al Gore Admits CO2 Does Not Cause Majority Of Global Warming

Startling concession devastates legitimacy of carbon tax, cap and trade agendaIn a new development that is potentially devastating to the agenda to introduce a global carbon tax and a cap and trade system, Al Gore admits that the majority of global warming that occurred until 2001 was not primarily caused by CO2.

Before we get too excited, Gore is not backing away from his support for the theory of man-made climate change, but his concession that carbon dioxide only accounted for 40% of warming according to new studies could seriously harm efforts to tax CO2, that evil, life-giving gas that humans exhale and plants absorb.

“Gore acknowledged to Newsweek that the findings could complicate efforts to build a political consensus around the need to limit carbon emissions,” reports BB News.

Yesterday we reported on how Gore was set to become the first “carbon billionaire” on the back of vast profits from companies invested in the “green revolution” that the former vice-president has a hefty stake in.

We also highlighted how the Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX) has direct ties to both Al Gore and Maurice Strong, two figures intimately involved with a long standing movement to use the theory of man made global warming as a mechanism for profit and social engineering. Gore’s investment company, Generation Investment Management, which sells carbon offset opportunities, is the largest shareholder of CCX.

Gore stands to make windfall profits from his stake in carbon trading systems that would be used to manage the cap and trade system currently being readied for passage in the Senate, but his admission that CO2 is far less of a threat than global warming alarmists have been claiming could be a terminal blow for such a proposal.

As Andrew Bolt writes in today’s Australian Herald Sun, his flip-flopping “Suggests not only that was Gore wrong to claim the science was “settled”, but that the hugely expensive schemes to “stop” warming by slashing carbon dioxide emissions will be less than half as effective as claimed.”

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