Switch from cattle fields to 'carbon farms' could tackle climate change, save endangered animals

Phys.Org ^ | April 28, 2014 | Provided by University of Sheffield

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Changing cattle fields to forests is a cheap way of tackling climate change and saving species threatened with extinction, a new study has found.

Researchers from leading universities, including the University of Sheffield, carried out a survey of carbon stocks, biodiversity and economic values from one of the world's most threatened ecosystems, the western Andes of Colombia.

The main use of land in communities is cattle farming, but the study found farmers could make the same or more money by allowing their land to naturally regenerate.

Under carbon markets designed to stop global warming, they could get paid to change the use of their land from growing cows to 'growing carbon' – receiving around US$1.99 per tonne of carbon dioxide the trees remove from the atmosphere.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

The money to pay for this "carbon biodiversity" fraud comes from unicorns.

[A_Former_Democrat]

How about kicking out all the illegals and Muslims and using that space for forests?

[Paladin2]

Agenda 21.

[Da Coyote]

And one wonders what work D students get following graduation.

[DaveyB]

My solution is slightly more realistic than unicorn farts - solar cows.

[Homer1]

but the cow manure helps to provide the fertilizer for that carbon farm

[doc maverick]

Global Warm=Religion of Fools

[Le Chien Rouge]

Well, most of the grazing ground in Texas for cattle are natural grasslands....good luck turning them into a forest.

[Mr. Blond]

And less food for people, hooray!

[andyk]

No mention where the lack of cattle production will be made up. Simple oversight, I’m sure.

[Zhang Fei]

Marxists are pretty good at taking money from other people to pay the idle.

[broken_arrow1]

Soylent Green is people!!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IKVj4l5GU4

[rktman]

Lolololololo lolo! These didiots. Omg!

[cripplecreek]

Dick Lugar got in on the carbon sequestration scam early. I remember the Chicago Climate exchange cheering him as the first republican member.

[musicman]

"And one wonders what work
D students get following graduation."



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[cripplecreek]

From 2009

Chicago Climate Exchange Has Important Partner: Sen. Richard Lugar

Three years ago, Lugar, who grows corn, soybeans and trees on his family's 604 acres of property in Marion County, Ind., became the first farmer in his state to sign up with the new commodity market called the Chicago Climate Exchange, which is likely to play a major role in President Obama's $650 billion cap-and-trade initiative. In the process, Lugar became what the exchange called an offset producer, entitling him to a financial reward in return for keeping his part of his property untouched.

[unixfox]

Well, most of the grazing ground in Texas for cattle are natural grasslands....good luck turning them into a forest.

Good luck getting it to rain enough to grow anything. The drought is killing us.

But of course they don't think about THOSE little things.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

They will never realize that a major contributor to global warming is the constant stream of b.s. coming out of the proponents of the theory.

[RedMDer]

When government controls the food supply they control the people.

[Avid Coug]

“Soylent Green is people!!!!!”

Thanks for posting that. If you didn’t, I would have to. But you had the YouTube clip. Nice!