In what can only be described as a scandalous act of deception it has been revealed that the IPCC has grossly overstated global livestock emissions.
The FAO report, Livestock’s Long Shadow, [pictured] made public last year to world acclaim, states that livestock contributes 18 per cent of the global warming effect, even more than transport.
But buried in the report is the information that deforestation - mainly in the Amazonian rainforest - is included in that figure. Without it, livestock’s contribution falls to less than 12 per cent.
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One of the report’s main authors, Pierre Gerber, a Food Agriculture Organization of the United Nations livestock policy officer, has been openly critical of IPCC Chairman Dr Rajendra Pachauri and others, saying they had misused the information in the report.
If you recall, based on the report Dr Pachauri [pictured] an Indian Economist and Vegetarian has been campaigning for the world to eat less meat to fight global warming.
In Professor Ross Garnaut final report last week he devoted an entire section to cutting Australia’s livestock emissions, extensively quoting the trumped up 18% figure for Australia’s livestock emissions.
This is just another example of how the IPCC has distorted and misconstrue the science. Yet they still maintain credibility. This is the science that Kevin Rudd and his Labor team are relying on to set policy in Australia.
The emissions trading scheme Rudd intends to introduce in just 14 months time will cost ordinary Australians $5 billion dollars in Carbon Taxes in the first year. Based on this kind on dodgy representation of the science, it will be an abject disaster, particularly for Australian Agriculture.
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(thanks to Agmate - Jeff)
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On Cutting Australia’s livestock emissions.
On SBS Television today (13/10/08 ~ 3:10pm)
http://askmorenow.com.au/
Is the image that was in the advertisement.
Then look at the page and see it is from “Supreme Master Ching Hai: Our inspiration.”
The pie chart shows how livestock emissions are affecting our atmosphere.
Under the chart - “Be Green, Go Veg!”
Just thought our livestock producers would like to know.
“Please don’t kick you computer”
Jeff
Some scientific facts.
1. In Australia termites emit more methane than all our livestock
2. A whale emits 40 times as much methane as a cow
3. Wetlands emit as much methane as our livestock
4. Rainforests emit more methane than our wetlands
If Go Veg is serious about saving the planet by stopping methane emissions they must have a secret agenda to eradicate termites, clear fell the rain forests, drain the wetlands and exterminate whales.
I don’t care if they eat meat or mung beans. They should be honest in promoting their lifestyle choice.
The IPCC , the Garnaut report, the livestock emissions estimations are all so stupid and ludicrous it is hard to believe that people talk with a straight face about them . I ain’t paying for no livestock emmissions EVER.