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Climate Change Starts With Us

January 12, 2016 By Stephanie James Leave a Comment

"yellow polluted river"

Livestock pollute water sources with fecal matter that could be filled with bacteria.

The Climate Conference that took place in Paris at the end of 2015 seems like it didn’t even end because all the promises made remained just that, promises. Everybody was rooting for a better planet, had expectations for others to start behaving and saving, but climate change starts with us.

The majority of topics discussed at the Climate Conference in Paris revolved around our burning need of replacing fossil fuels with sustainable energy. To give people who want to make a change a choice between solar panels and power plant electricity. The talks revolved around energy, a better education and plans on how to keep greenhouse gases under control. A fight against pollution, more precisely against the big polluters.

But what the members forgot is that we can’t save our planet by making other people do something that we deem healthy for mother Earth, no, climate change starts with us. And we can start by pointing out just how much water, oxygen and acres of forest were used and destroyed so that the participants could enjoy a beef steak after the conference.

If we look at the numbers, big facilities that emit high amounts of carbon dioxide are a small percentage (13%) out of the total of pollution factors. The higher polluter is not a plant that uses fossil fuels and emits thick, grey carbon smoke, although they are not innocent, either. No, the main culprit are livestock.

Numbers aren’t clear yet because studies have only been conducted on small samples of livestock, but it is estimated that pollution figures are somewhere in between 14.5% and 51%. It is a harder concept to grasp than the idea of evil factories, but it is true. A cow pollutes more than an average American with an old coughing car and a habit of long showers and grills. Such a thing is possible because a cow’s manure contains large quantities of nitrogen dioxide, a gas that has a warming potential 289 times greater than carbon dioxide.

But the danger is not only in the manure. A flock of livestock consumes incredible amounts of water. It takes approximately 1850 gallons to obtain only a pound of beef. By comparison, an average American with a taste for daily refreshing showers needs 3.5 months to reach such an amount of water consumed.

Cows are raised for food consumption, but what about their diet? A great part of the Amazon forest was cut down in order to create more grasslands in order to feed the cattle. Those trees used to filter the carbon dioxide. The cows release methane.

The conclusion is, obviously, not to kill all the cows and start a vegan diet, but change starts with us. We could start by adopting a more diverse diet, shrinking our red meat necessities. We need to limit the numbers of animals raised for human consumption because we are hurting the planet more than we expected.

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Filed Under: Science Tagged With: animals raised for consumption, carbon dioxide, climate change, climate change solutions, livestock, methane spike in mars atmosphere, Paris Climate Conference, pollution

Fjords are a major carbon sinker which sinks 18 million tons of carbon annually

May 5, 2015 By Doyle Buehler 4 Comments

FjordAccording to a new study, it is found that fjords are a major carbon sinker. It is playing an important role in the regulation of the climate.

Fjords are narrow, long and deep estuaries.

Researchers have studies the sediment data from worldwide fjord system and they have found that 18 million tones of organic carbon is buried in fjords each year, this estimate is equivalent to 11 percent of marine carbon burial globally each year.

For the research they have analyzed data from 573 surface sediments sample and 124 sediment cores from fjords around the world.

Dr Candida Savage of New Zealand’s University, Otago and her colleagues calculated fjord organic burial per unit area and they found that it is actually twice as large as the ocean average.

Dr Savage said, “Therefore, even though they account for only 0.1% of the surface area of oceans globally, fjords act as hotspots for organic carbon burial.”

Fjords are known for their beauty and are formed at high latitudes during the glacial period as the glaciers incise major valleys near the coast.

Fjords are found in Greenland, North America, New Zealand, Antarctica, and North Western Europe.

Fjords are deep and low oxygen marine system, thus providing a site for carbon rich sediments to accumulate.

Carbon burial is a natural process where carbon sediments are buried, and it is the largest carbon sink on the planet.

This process also influences atmospheric carbon dioxide levels at multi thousand year time scales.

Researchers said that during the times when ice sheets are retreating, fjords can play an important role as a driver of atmospheric carbon dioxide levels.

Earth is currently in Interglacial period, before entering into the Interglacial period Earth was in a period where ice sheets receded; this period is around 11,700 years ago.

During glacial retreat, fjords would trap large volumes of organic carbon flowing out to the continental shelf, where carbon dioxide is produced by some chemical processes.

Once glaciers start advancing again the organic carbon would then be pushed out onto the shelf and co2 production will increase.

Savage said: “In essence, fjords appear to act as a major temporary storage site for organic carbon in between glacial periods. This finding has important implications for improving our understanding of global carbon cycling and climate change.”

Filed Under: Discovery Tagged With: 18 million tones of organic carbon, Candida Savage, carbon burial, carbon dioxide, Fjords, fjords are deep narrow esturies, fjords are major carbon sinker, fjords burru 18 million tons of organic carbon, fjords help fight global warming, glacial retreat, inter glacial period, organic carbon burial

China’s weather officials warns climate change would have huge impact

March 23, 2015 By Doyle Buehler

pollutionThe climate change could have a great impact on the country said the Zheng Gougang, chief of the China’s Metrological Administration.

He further added that the global climate change will create unstable rivers, lead to ecological degradation and reduce the crop yield.

China is world’s largest source of carbon dioxide which is one of the important greenhouse gases, and Zheng called china to take low carbon development path.

The temperature in china are increasing at a faster level and it is higher than global average, and such a rate of increase is not seen in any country

This will have an adverse impact not only on the environment but also on the infrastructural projects like the Three Gorges Dam.

Filed Under: Discovery Tagged With: carbon dioxide, china, China’s Metrological Administration, greenhouse gases, pollution, Three Gorges Dam

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