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As I said, 18 percent of
greenhouse
gases are attributed to livestock production.
Eighty-five to 95 percent of species at this time die out, and simultaneous to that is a huge, dramatic spike in carbon dioxide, that a lot of scientists agree comes from a simultaneous eruption of volcanoes and a runaway
greenhouse
effect.
Humans made this air, but it's also the most potent
greenhouse
gas that has ever been tested.
This is primarily due to a decrease in seasonal sea ice, which is a direct result of human
greenhouse
gas emissions.
Drawdown is that point in time when atmospheric concentrations of
greenhouse
gases begin to decline on a year-to-year basis.
More simply, it's that point when we take out more
greenhouse
gases than we put into Earth's atmosphere.
The problem is global warming, provoked by the increasing concentrations of
greenhouse
gases caused by human activity.
The only way we know how is to draw down, to avoid putting
greenhouse
gases up and to pull down what's already there.
But they were replaced by HFCs, which are hundreds to thousands of times more potent a
greenhouse
gas than carbon dioxide.
If we were to account for the impact of the Kigali agreement of 2016, which calls for the phaseout of hydrofluorocarbons and replace them with natural refrigerants, which exist today, this number could increase to 120, to nearly 200 gigatons of avoided
greenhouse
gases.
But they are increasingly displaced by modern agriculture, which promotes tillage, monocropping and the use of synthetic fertilizers and pesticides which degrade the land and turn it into a net emitter of
greenhouse
gases.
Moreover, approximately a third of all food produced is not eaten, and wasted food emits an astounding eight percent of global
greenhouse
gases.
But taken together, educating girls and family planning is the number one solution to reversing global warming, reducing approximately 120 billion tons of
greenhouse
gases.
Now this is just another great service provided by the oceans since carbon dioxide is one of the
greenhouse
gases that's causing climate change.
China is committed to reducing
greenhouse
gas emissions, but what its leaders care even more about is transitioning their economy to consumer-led economic development.
Carbon dioxide is a
greenhouse
gas, we're emitting a lot of it, and the planet is heating up.
The result is a very powerful
greenhouse
effect.
We've got low clouds that act like a sunshade, cooling the planet, and high clouds which act like a greenhouse, warming the planet.
If global warming triggers cloud changes that make for a less powerful
greenhouse
or a more effective sunshade, then that would enhance the cooling power of clouds.
This intensifies the
greenhouse
effect.
If only half of those workers would telework even 50 percent of the time, the savings in the states would exceed 500 billion dollars, and it could reduce
greenhouse
gases by 54 million tons.
So, these are the
greenhouse
tents.
And furthermore, because many of those ozone-depleting substances are also very potent
greenhouse
gases, the Montreal Protocol has actually delayed global warming by more than a decade.
When Montreal was signed, we were less certain then of the risks from CFCs than we are now of the risks from
greenhouse
gas emissions.
Nor does anyone ever mention the
greenhouse
gases already locked in the system.
We have the reckless burning of fossil fuels along with other
greenhouse
gasses, so called, leading to climate change.
They take up just three percent of the world's surface area, but they account for more than 75 percent of our energy consumption, and they emit 80 percent of our
greenhouse
gases.
If your hometown might get swept away or destroyed by a natural disaster, we now have a blueprint suspended in time for how to restore that on Earth, or perhaps even in a
greenhouse
on Mars.
Five percent of our
greenhouse
gases are produced by mowing our lawns.
Their construction also frequently destroys important ecosystems like mangroves and marshes, which protect coastal areas from storms, provide habitats, and absorb tons of
greenhouse
gases.
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