Agriculture a culprit in global warming, says U.S. research

Reuters ^ | August 22, 2017 | Ellen Wulfhorst

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Agriculture has contributed nearly as much to climate change as deforestation by intensifying global warming, according to U.S. research that has quantified the amount of carbon taken from the soil by farming.

Some 133 billion tons of carbon have been removed from the top two meters of the earth's soil over the last two centuries by agriculture at a rate that is increasing, said the study in PNAS, a journal published by the National Academy of Sciences.

The 133 billion tons of carbon lost from soil compares to about 140 billion tons lost due to deforestation, he said, mostly since the mid-1800s and the Industrial Revolution.

But the findings show potential for the earth's soil to mitigate global warming by absorbing more carbon through such practices as better land stewardship, more extensive ground cover to minimize erosion, better diversity of crop rotation and no-till farming, he said.

[Eagles6]

And stop exhaling all that CO2.

[JimRed]

Sounds like the world has a few billion too many people. If you are a true global warming believer, you need to personally act upon your beliefs.

U.N. Agenda 21 proposes reducing the population by about 85%... the elite and their servants are spared. Maybe we should kill them first!

[Oscar in Batangas]

How can there be a culprit when there’s no crime?

[glennaro]

The adherents of the climate change religion should follow the plan: No more eating and no more exhaling. Problem solved! (actually, a lot of problems solved.)

[backwoods-engineer]

COMPLETE LIES. There are more acres of timber in the United States today than when the Declaration of Independence was written.

And, there is no global warming.

[5th MEB]

If we kill’em and eat’em we wont have to grow so much corn or alfalfa to feed the cows we currently eat.
Thus less cow farts or idiot pseudoscience hot air.