Posted on 02/01/2022 4:39:25 PM PST by devane617
The worldwide phase out of animal agriculture, combined with a global switch to a plant-based diet, would effectively halt the increase of atmospheric greenhouse gases for 30 years and give humanity more time to end its reliance on fossil fuels, according to a new study by scientists from Stanford University and the University of California, Berkeley.
"We wanted to answer a very simple question: What would be the impact of a global phase-out of animal agriculture on atmospheric greenhouse gases and their global-heating impact?" said Patrick Brown, a professor emeritus in the department of biochemistry at Stanford University. Brown co-authored the paper with Michael Eisen, a professor of genetics and development at UC Berkeley.
Based on the model, published in the open-access journal PLoS Climate, phasing out animal agriculture over the next 15 years would have the same effect as a 68 percent reduction of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions through the year 2100. This would provide 52 percent of the net emission reductions necessary to limit global warming to 2 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels, which scientists say is the minimum threshold required to avert disastrous climate change.
The changes would stem, the authors say, from the spontaneous decay of the potent greenhouse gases methane and nitrous oxide, and the recovery of biomass in natural ecosystems on the more than 80 percent of humanity's land footprint currently devoted to livestock.
Yeah I’m gonna give up meat for a fiction.
As if there aren’t enough soy boys already.
How about a worldwide phase out of commies? It would work.
Let’s compromise and ban only libtards from eating anything they don’t like while the rest of us carry on without having to listen to them? 🤪
Wouldn’t a plant based diet also make the population weak, and unable to fight back against a Communist Tyranny?
Computer models. Is there anything they can’t do?
Maybe liberals taste like chicken. Nah, they’d taste like a sewer smells.
Piss off commies!
What do you need to grow plants you can eat??
Water
Sunlight
Fertile soil...which comes from herbivores grazing and pooping...you know....animal agriculture.
Literally leftists are stupid but always work to make the next level of leftists even more stupid.
Tweek the models the way you want, make the assumptions you want to make, and the models will deliver any answer you want.
What the modelers claim to be able to do in this case cannot be done.
We do not have the data or the knowledge of how the atmosphere and feedback loops work to do it.
Garbage in = Garbage out.
The model is likely very good at generating government funds.
Their climate “models” never predict today’s “climate” when historical data is fed into them
There is one model that is 93% accurate; the solar cycle.
But the solar cycle does not give them the result the want, so the worship fake computer “models” instead.
Wonder if whoever came up with this hairbrained tripe is planning to pull a Hilary and short sell a bunch of cattle futures? I’m sure the FTC is on top of things😖😖
No more chicken
No more pork
No more beef
Enjoy your beans
Oh, boy - cricket paste, here we come! Yummers!
OR!
We can humanely harvest liberals from blue cities, at a pace that will preserve our world.
Exactly the opposite of what needs to be done.
It’s that “civilization” thingy, it triggers the left.
They come for my “animal agriculture”, and I and my neighbors will come out shooting. Seriously, elite monsters, DO NOT TRY THIS.
Berkeley. 🙄
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