Sentences with phrase «land and water equivalent»

In land and water equivalent, this translates into 168 million tons of grain.

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Each day, a person who eats a vegan diet saves 1,100 gallons of water, 45 pounds of grain, 30 sq ft of forested land, 20 lbs CO2 equivalent, and one animal's life.

As well as explaining that the production of meat — on its journey from farm to fork — is responsible for 15 per cent of the planet's harmful greenhouse gas emissions, it underlines that raising equivalent amounts of grain or vegetables for human consumption uses far less land, water and resources.

Compare that to 20 sq meters of land, 2200 liters of water, and 1000 grams of feed for an equivalent amount of beef.

The surface heat capacity C (j = 0) was set to the equivalent of a global layer of water 50 m deep (which would be a layer ~ 70 m thick over the oceans) plus 70 % of the atmosphere, the latent heat of vaporization corresponding to a 20 % increase in water vapor per 3 K warming (linearized for current conditions), and a little land surface; expressed as W * yr per m ^ 2 * K (a convenient unit), I got about 7.093.

Over land the northern hemisphere; Globsnow snow - water - equivalent SWE product and over sea the EUMETSAT OSI - SAF sea - ice concentration product.

Over land the northern hemisphere Globsnow snow - water - equivalent SWE product and over sea the OSI - SAF sea - ice concentration product.