Perreault Magazine - 17 -
As you may know, I am very concerned about global warming
and global climate change. The science of global warming is
long settled, and one may wonder why the United States, nominally the most technologically advanced country in the world, is not the world leader in addressing the threats enumerated by the U.S. military, the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), and others.
I hope people will take the facts we face into account as they head to the polls this year.
Scientist, engineer, and TV personality Bill Nye explains why he's challenging climate change deniers directly.
Even if the agricultural industry perfectly implemented all of today’s emission-reducing practices, greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture would still block the climate goals of the United Nation’s Paris Agreement, a recent study finds.
To limit global temperature increases to 2 degree Celsius, as set forth by the Paris Agreement in December, non-carbon dioxide emissions from the agriculture sector – such as methane and nitrous oxide – need to be reduced by one gigaton per year by 2030, the authors write.
If the world is to limit global warming to 2 degrees Celsius by 2100, greenhouse gas emissions from the agricultural sector will need to be addressed – and in a whole new way.