Posted on 11/26/2019 8:21:22 PM PST by Olog-hai
Denmark announced Monday a plan to speed up its battle against greenhouse gases, targeting nitrogen emissions due to farming, in a decision criticised by the agricultural industry.
New rules targeting nitrogen aim “to guarantee a reduction of 3,500 tonnes in 2020,” a year earlier than promised by the previous government, the environment and food ministry said in a statement.
The measure is part of wider government plans to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 70 percent by 2030.
Denmark estimates that between 48,000 and 54,000 tonnes of nitrogen are emitted as a result of agriculture each year.
The national farmers’ federation said reducing nitrogen emissions was a mission impossible. …
(Excerpt) Read more at thelocal.dk ...
The earth’s atmosphere is over 70% Nitrogen. Nitrogen is an inert gas and has no ability to trap heat and is not a green house gas. Idiots.
DAFUQ?
I hope they don’t mean elemental nitrogen.
Don't try to confuse us with facts, you racist!
Nitrous oxides.
badly written article. Nitrogen fertilizer runoff is a valid concern in water bodies but has nothing to do with greenhouse gas. IE missisippi dead zone.
Well, good for them. People might want to study up on home gardening.
In Socialism, Starvation of the masses is not a bug... It’s a feature!
My first thought...I guess they don’t want to eat...IDIOTS ARE EVERYWHEREEEEE
Nitrogen? They’re doubling down on stupid.
#FakeScience
It is but the article isn't referring that at all. It refers to "nitrogen emissions" several times and ends by specifically citing that "Nitrous oxide plays a major role in destroying the ozone layer..."
The article is not badly written. It says exactly what it intends to say and what the Denmark government is trying to do. The farmers of Denmark know it is folly too ...
The national farmers' federation said reducing nitrogen emissions was a mission impossible. "The consequences would be extremely costly and require a huge workforce," according to the federation's head Martin Merrild.
Denmark come up with a new way to create famine!
All nitrogen in the soil originally came from the atmosphere through nitrogen fixing of bacteria. Has everyone lost their minds?
Denmark is an insignificant European backwater. If the country vanished global atmospheric impacts would be negligible.
“Nitrous oxide plays a major role in destroying the ozone layer...”
Doesn’t nitrous oxide make you laugh when your dentist drills your teeth ?
When people laugh hard they emit methane
Methane and sparks go boom
Some of the main pillars of science here and Denmark is all over it.
F yeah Denmark !
Now they’re going to war against nitrogen? What’s next - oxygen? These people are batsh*t crazy.
That's what I thought. Maybe Denmark should go after the dentists instead of farmers!?
I read that these people think the world population should be 500 million, they have to get rid of a lot of people.
Yeah, that 80% of air made up of N2, that would be catastrophic if it got to 80.00000000000001%
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