There are a surprising number of people who believe that
global warming is a hoax, even though the vast
majority of actively publishing climate scientists – 97 percent – agree that humans
are causing global warming and climate change. Most of the leading science
organizations around the world have issued public statements expressing this,
including international and U.S. science academies, the United Nations
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and a whole host of reputable
scientific bodies around the world
https://climate.nasa.gov/faq/17/do-scientists-agree-on-climate-change/
Although humans contribute to global warming in a number of
ways, the creature shown below is also a major contributor to global warming.
6% of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions comes from 1.5 billion cows that burp out lots of methane. In addition, a small percentage of methane gas also escapes due to flatulence.
Despite all the warnings about global warming from trusted scientific sources, the person who has done the most to most to raise awareness of global warming is a 17- year old girl from Sweden named Greta Thunberg, who started her silent protest outside the Swedish parliament when she was 15 years old.
The incoming Biden administration will address global warming in a number of ways, one of which is the appointment of John Kerry to the newly created position of climate envoy on the National Security Council.
Kerry helped negotiate the
Paris climate agreement, signing it in 2016 with his granddaughter on his lap.
Biden has pledged to rejoin the pact after Trump withdrew from it, but Kerry
could face skepticism as he seeks to reassert U.S. leadership and gain the
trust of other countries for more aggressive climate action.
One of the most surprising
ways to reduce global warming is an ingredient that you would not suspect.
Seaweed.
The red seaweed is called
Asparagopsis taxiformis, or A. taxiformis for short. The startup that’s turning
it into a supplement for livestock is called Symbrosia. Research has shown that
replacing just 0.4% of a cow’s feed with A. taxiformis reduces the amount of
methane the cow produces by more than 90%. Methane is 34 times more potent than
carbon dioxide when it comes to contributing to climate change.
Symbrosia uses an on-land aquaculture
system to grow the seaweed. They dry the seaweed to preserve it naturally, then
turn that into a feed product with the not-so-catchy name of SVD.
Just a sprinkle of the
SVD to existing livestock feed and poof: less methane from the cow. Symbrosia
was recently selected as part of the 2020 Solver class by MIT Solve, an initiative of the Massachusetts
Institute for Technology. Symbrosia will receive a portion of more than $2 million in prize funding and
more opportunities via investors and venture capitalists.
Symbrosia has already
received funding from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to analyze the use of
its seaweed feed supplement at Z
Farms Organic in Dover Plains, New York. A pilot began there in
June, testing the seaweed supplement on a commercial grazing system.
The founder of Symbrosia
is Alexia Akbay, who lives in Kailua-Kona Hawaii. Akbay, a chemist by training, co-founded Symbrosia about two and a half years ago with Jonathan
Simonds.
“All research prior had
been in an academic feedlot or controlled dairy setting,” Akbay says.
“Meanwhile, the majority of methane emissions in the beef or dairy supply chain
come from the grazing cycle — digesting grass is more difficult than corn or
soy.”
https://tohell-andback.blogspot.com/2015/02/oh-poop.html
There are still far too many people who simply aren’t going to believe the truth about global warming, but the more enlightened souls among us are doing something about it.
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