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Australian scientists found that adding a certain seaweed to cattle feed could cut global methane emissions by 70 percent.

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As one of the group's leaders, Hsu Jen - hsiu, rightly says eating less or no meat is a way to love our planet because livestock emit large volumes of methane into the atmosphere, which contribute more to global warming than the emissions produced by all the vehicles around the world.

In this study, we created new per - animal emissions factors — that is measures of the average amount of CH4 discharged by animals into the atmosphere — and new estimates of global livestock methane emissions.»

In a project sponsored by the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) Carbon Monitoring System research initiative, researchers from the Joint Global Change Research Institute (JGCRI) found that global livestock methane (CH4) emissions for 2011 are 11 % higher than the estimates based on guidelines provided by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) inGlobal Change Research Institute (JGCRI) found that global livestock methane (CH4) emissions for 2011 are 11 % higher than the estimates based on guidelines provided by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) inglobal livestock methane (CH4) emissions for 2011 are 11 % higher than the estimates based on guidelines provided by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in 2006.

Overall, the new measures would lower global anthropogenic emissions of methane by 50 % and of black carbon aerosols, also known as soot, by 80 %.

All told, such efforts to restrain methane and soot emissions could help hold back global average temperature increases by more than 0.5 degree Celsius this century and improve public health.

«Our results suggest that sedimentation - driven methane emissions from dammed river hot spot sites can potentially increase global freshwater emissions by up to 7 percent,» said the report.

During the early 2000s, environmental scientists studying methane emissions noticed something unexpected: the global concentrations of atmospheric methane (CH4)-- which had increased for decades, driven by methane emissions from fossil fuels and agriculture — inexplicably leveled off.

The results of this work open up the possibility of reducing methane emissions and of contributing to a reduction in global temperatures which is caused by greenhouse gases.

Part of the reason is EPA is only considering the domestic cost of methane emissions in its calculations, a fact that critics say severely underestimates the global environmental harm caused by the gas.

Global energy - related emissions could peak by 2020 if energy efficiency is improved; the construction of inefficient coal plants is banned; investment in renewables is increased to $ 400 billion in 2030 from $ 270 billion in 2014; methane emissions are cut in oil and gas production and fossil fuel subsidies are phased out by 2030.

A group of scientists led by David Archer and Gavin Schmidt at realclimate.org say Arctic methane is still a small part of global methane emissions.

Our target is estimation of global total methane balances, including emission trends in time and their differentiation by region and emission category, with specific interest on methane emissions from northern wetlands, and transport and chemical sink of methane in the atmosphere.

It is shown that if global methane emissions were to increase by factors of 2.5 and 5.2 above current emissions, the indirect contributions to RF would be about 250 % and 400 %, respectively, of the RF that can be attributed to directly emitted methane alone.

Pierrehumbert said Howarth uses the figure for methane's 20 - year global warming potential — 86 times that of carbon dioxide — without seriously discussing the magnitude of warming caused by those methane emissions compared to warming prevented by the reduction in carbon dioxide emissions.

However, the stark reality is that global emissions have accelerated (Fig. 1) and new efforts are underway to massively expand fossil fuel extraction [7]--[9] by drilling to increasing ocean depths and into the Arctic, squeezing oil from tar sands and tar shale, hydro - fracking to expand extraction of natural gas, developing exploitation of methane hydrates, and mining of coal via mountaintop removal and mechanized long - wall mining.

There's a fantastic paper by the authors of the Beyond Zero Emissions Land Use Report explaining how there's an opportunity to reduce land sector emissions (especially methane) to temporarily halt global warming buying us time to get off fossils fuels if we reduced livestock production by say 5Emissions Land Use Report explaining how there's an opportunity to reduce land sector emissions (especially methane) to temporarily halt global warming buying us time to get off fossils fuels if we reduced livestock production by say 5emissions (especially methane) to temporarily halt global warming buying us time to get off fossils fuels if we reduced livestock production by say 50 % even.

• Similarly, Eillott et al (2011), Reagan (2011) and Reagan and Moridis (2008), for the equivalent of RCP 8.5 50 % CL methane emissions from global marine methane hydrates could be 0.3 GtCH4 / yr by 2100.

More importantly, the atmospheric methane flux from the Arctic Ocean is really small (extrapolating estimates from Kort et al 2012), even compared with emissions from the Arctic land surface, which is itself only a few percent of global emissions (dominated by human sources and tropical wetlands).

That Shakhova 2010 paper opens with: «The sharp growth in methane emission (50 Gt over 1 - 5 years) from destructed gas hydrate deposits on the ESS should result in an increase in the global surface temperature by 3.3 C by the end of the current century instead of the expected 2C.»

And while methane from Siberian lakes is a relatively modest contributor to climate change compared to human greenhouse emissions by industry and automobiles, it helps intensify a positive feedback mechanism for global warming.

A new NASA - sponsored study shows that global methane emissions produced by livestock are 11 percent higher than estimates made last decade.

Although APS plans to reduce its coal burn from the current 35 % to 17 % by 2029, by increasing its natural gas burn from 19 % to 35 %, it will actually increase its greenhouse gas emissions in the near term, since the global warming potential from methane, which is leaked at multiple points of the natural gas supply chain, is 86 times that of carbon over 20 years, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's 2013 report.

Detailed studies at the State Hydrology Institute in St. Petersburg allow one to assume that biogenic methane emission in the Russian permafrost zone can not increase by more than 20 %, or at the most 30 %, compared to the current level, which would cause global warming by 0.01 degrees Celsius by 2050.

From providing cleaner cookstoves to rural families and improving rice cultivation to reduce methane emissions to reducing emissions from deforestation and cutting deepening dependence on carbon - emitting coal, the solutions to global warming pursued by countries across Asia are specific to their unique needs and opportunities.

As I mentioned previously, the recent IPCC report has plenty of detractors and failed to mention the issue of melting methyl hydrates and methane emissions from melting permafrost, over strong objections, which the June, 2013 IEA - WEO follow - up climate change report did include when it forecast a 3.6 - 5.3 degree Celsius jump in average global temperatures by 2100.

The warming is expected to increase algal blooms, and to mean global methane emissions will rise by 4 % over the next decade.

In order to stay below the two - degree warming limit, global agriculture needs to slash non-CO2 emissions, like methane and nitrous oxide, by one gigaton per year by 2030.

Estimates for the global size of the CO2 utilization market by 2030 in carbonate aggregates, fuels (methane and liquid fuels), concrete, methanol, and polymers are as large as $ 700 billion, utilizing 7 billion metric tons of CO2 per year, which is equivalent to approximately 15 percent of current global CO2 emissions.

The new global study comes out of an announcement made by EDF and several oil and gas companies in 2015 at COP21 in Paris to better quantify the industry's contribution to global methane emissions across the value chain.

UNEP has predicted that 40 % of global greenhouse gas emissions could come from methane released by thawing permafrost in the Arctic and Tundra regions by 2200.

In other words, even if claims by EDF and virtually every other environmental group that U.S. oil and gas methane emissions are underestimated — they are almost certainly not a significant percentage of global emissions.

The global methane emissions estimates included in this report, while more detailed and robust than anything currently available, are limited by the lack of credible, up - to - date estimates for most countries.

the atmospheric methane flux from the Arctic Ocean is really small (extrapolating estimates from Kort et al 2012), even compared with emissions from the Arctic land surface, which is itself only a few percent of global emissions (dominated by human sources and tropical wetlands).

Evaluating a 1 % reduction in current global emissions, benefits with a high discount rate are greatest for reductions of co-emitted products of incomplete combustion (PIC), followed by sulfur dioxide (SO2), nitrogen oxides (NOx) and then CO2, ammonia and methane.

Cumulative emissions from 1854 to 2010 traced to historic fossil fuel production by the largest investor - owned and state - owned oil, gas, and coal producers, in percent of global industrial CO2 and methane emissions since 1751.