Updated Analysis
Walking by fruits, vegetables, or other plant material growing in sunshine, the fragrance is often exhilarating. That’s in part because plant material in sunshine creates oxygen, at the same time as it absorbs greenhouse gas from our atmosphere. But walking by livestock, the opposite happens in both daylight and nighttime, as untreated manure emits unpleasant odors along with huge volumes of greenhouse gases. ..
UN Climate Talks
In the news, James Hansen, dubbed the “father” of climate change awareness, has denounced the new Paris climate change agreement as a “fraud”. But it’s not exactly news for him to denounce a major climate change agreement. Mr. Hansen pronounced the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, the preceding international climate agreement, to be “ineffectual”, and predicted no pathway ..
Updated Analysis
The world needs to prepare for the raising of 70% more livestock by 2050, according to FAO livestock specialists. That projection presumes that it’s possible for the livestock sector to continue expanding. But the authors of that projection were livestock specialists, not environmental specialists, and the FAO is just one of nineteen UN specialized agencies. In contrast, Bill ..
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A New York Times article by Robert Goodland, co-founder of Chomping Climate Change, explaining climate risk and opportunity in food and agriculture a few years ago seems just as relevant today, so following is an excerpt, and the full original article is at http://nyti.ms/1NouRzx. The past year has been the warmest ever in the United States, with record heat ..
Updated Analysis
A new “Clean Power Plan” has been announced by President Obama, asking U.S. state governments to create tailored plans to meet the goal of reducing U.S. carbon dioxide emissions by 32 percent from 2005 levels by the year 2030. But the plan does not provide what projections indicate is needed. The International Energy Agency projects that climate outcomes may no longer be ..
Inspiration to Act
Contact: Hope Katz Gibbs, founder Inkandescent Public Relations, email: hope@inkandescentpr.com cell: 703-346–6975 Signed copies of the “Meat Free Monday Cookbook” by Paul, Mary, and Stella McCartney will go to the two people who donate the most money to the “No More Bull” crowdfunding campaign Washington, DC, April 20, 2015 — In celebration of Earth Day 2015, ..
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Livestock specialists have estimated that livestock account for 14.5% of human-caused greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. In contrast, environmental specialists have estimated that livestock account for at least 51% of human-caused GHG emissions. That difference in the numbers – i.e., between 14.5% and 51% – is much bigger than is normally seen in GHG accounting. Yet both numbers have been ..
Inspiration to Act
Government meetings might not normally be interesting – but in a meeting last week where public comments were made on recommendations for U.S. dietary guidelines, some fascinating comments can be seen and heard in a video of the meeting. A man representing McCormick Spices played to the crowd, saying “let’s spice up the guidelines!” He proposed that consumers ..
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Environmental activists were said to incorporate flawed reasoning in their efforts today to promote an “expert” panel’s report that may be reflected in forthcoming new U.S. dietary guidelines. The panel’s work has focused for the first time on food and environmental sustainability. Today’s efforts were connected to the U.S. Meatless Mondays campaign and involved a presentation by activists to ..
We’re launching a newly designed Chomping Climate Change website – which we hope you’ll look over, and we welcome your feedback – and we’re doing this because politicians have promised to reverse climate change for more than 20 years, but greenhouse gas emissions have increased by 61% during those 20+ years. Now it’s said that we may ..