<![CDATA[Grist - Comment Feed for Big Ag: give us carbon credit, but don’t cap our emissions]]> Grist Comment Feed en Comment #1 by max ajl http://www.grist.org/article/2009-04-08-ag-carbon-emissions/ Fri, 10 Apr 2009 16:44:38 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/2009-04-08-ag-carbon-emissions/1 Tom--

I agree with the gist of your post, but am curious about some numbers. You say that industrial meat production may contribute more than a fifth of American total GHG. I don't have a number for that, but I have cited these numbers:

http://groups.google.com/group/news-from-will-brownsberger/web/how-much-does-the-u-s-agriculture-sector-contribute-to-climate-change?pli=1

in my writing on climate change and agriculture. Not accounting for the change in measuring NO2's contribution to emissions, the number is 10 percent. Where are you drawing your guesses from?

by the way: chicken and poultry apparently contribute about 1/60th of the GHG per/calorie that beef production does.

]]> Tom--

I agree with the gist of your post, but am curious about some numbers. You say that industrial meat production may contribute more than a fifth of American total GHG. I don't have a number for that, but I have cited these numbers:

http://groups.google.com/group/news-from-will-brownsberger/web/how-much-does-the-u-s-agriculture-sector-contribute-to-climate-change?pli=1

in my writing on climate change and agriculture. Not accounting for the change in measuring NO2's contribution to emissions, the number is 10 percent. Where are you drawing your guesses from?

by the way: chicken and poultry apparently contribute about 1/60th of the GHG per/calorie that beef production does.

]]> Comment #2 by Stephanie Ogburn http://www.grist.org/article/2009-04-08-ag-carbon-emissions/ Tue, 14 Apr 2009 23:56:48 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/2009-04-08-ag-carbon-emissions/2 Tom, I wrote a piece for High Country News that covered the emerging market for carbon payments to farmers and ranchers last year. It's an interesting topic. One thing that I noted while reporting the piece is that in order for senators from ag states to get behind a climate bill, there might have to be concessions, like carbon sequestration dollars paid to farmers, in order for it to pass. I'm not saying it won't be a boondoggle, but these things have been known to happen. Just something to note about our political system.

]]> Tom, I wrote a piece for High Country News that covered the emerging market for carbon payments to farmers and ranchers last year. It's an interesting topic. One thing that I noted while reporting the piece is that in order for senators from ag states to get behind a climate bill, there might have to be concessions, like carbon sequestration dollars paid to farmers, in order for it to pass. I'm not saying it won't be a boondoggle, but these things have been known to happen. Just something to note about our political system.

]]> Comment #3 by charmingirl http://www.grist.org/article/2009-04-08-ag-carbon-emissions/ Mon, 23 Nov 2009 19:35:34 -0800 http://www.grist.org/article/2009-04-08-ag-carbon-emissions/3 sexy lingerie.Google. Microsoft still has the infrastructure, the support and, in some semblance, the technical documentation to make corporations feel comfortable in pouring millions of dollars into upgrades. ]]> sexy lingerie.Google. Microsoft still has the infrastructure, the support and, in some semblance, the technical documentation to make corporations feel comfortable in pouring millions of dollars into upgrades. ]]>