SOIL 5813 Homework Summary
Name
Cameron
Murley
% Global
Warming
(Livestock)
3.8, 18, 51
Sources
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Eric Miller
12–23%
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Andrew
Mueller
18-20
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Steinfeld H., P. Gerber, T. Wassenaar, V. Castel, M. Rosales, and C. Dehaan. 2006. Livestock’s Long
Shadow—Environmental issues and options. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations,
Rome, Italy.
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA). 21012. Inventory of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions and
sinks: 1990—2010. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC.
www.epa.gov/climatechange/ghgemissions/usinventoryreport.html. (Accessed 27 January 2014)
PETA /issues/Animals Used for Food/ Fight Global Warming by Going Vegetarian
http://www.peta.org/issues/animals-used-for-food/global-warming/ (Accessed 27 January 2014)
Denman KL, Brasseur G, et al. (2007) Couplings between changes in the climate system and
biogeochemistry. In ‘Climate Change 2007: the physical science basis. Contribution of working group I to
the fourth assessment report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’. (Eds S Solomon, D Qin, M
Manning, Z Chen, M Marquis, KB Averyt, M Tignor and HL Miller) pp. 499–587. (Cambridge University
Press: Cambridge, United Kingdom and New York, NY, USA)
Harper, L.A., O.T. Denmead, J.R. Freney, and F.M. Byers. 1999. Direct measurements of methane
emissions from grazing and feedlot cattle. J. Anim. Sci. 77:1392-1401.
Neitzert, F., Olsen, K. and Collas, P. 1999. Canadas Greenhouse Gas Inventory: 1997. Emissions and
removals with trends. Greenhouse Gas Division, Pollution Data Branch, Environmental Canada, Ottawa,
ON.
Johnson, K.A., and D.E. Johnson. 1995. Methane emissions from cattle. J. Anim. Sci. 73:2483:2492.
US EPA (Environment Protection Authority) (1994). ‘International Anthropogenic Methane Emission:
Estimates for 1990.’ EPA 230-R-93-010. (Office of Policy, Planning and Evaluation: Washington DC.)
Steinfeld H., Gerber P., Wassenaar T., Castel V., Rosales N., De Haan C., 2006. Livestock’s Long Shadow:
environmental issues and options. (Rome: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United States)
Lassey K., 2007. Livestock methane emission: From the individual grazing animal through national
inventories to the global methane cycle. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. Volume 142, Issues 2–4, 12
February 2007, Pages 120–132
Lawrence Aula
18
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FAO. 2006. Livestock’s long shadow: environmental issues and options.
ftp://ftp.fao.org/docrep/fao/010/a0701e/a0701e.pdf
Bruno
Morandin
Figueiredo
18
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Steinfeld, H., et al. 2006. Livestock’s long shadow: environmental issues and options. FAO, Rome, Italy.
Goodland, R., Anhang, J., 2009. Livestock and Climate Change. What if the Key Actors in Climate Change
Were Pigs, Chickens and Cows? Worldwatch Institute, Washington DC, pp. 10–19.
Thornton, P., Herrero, M., and Ericksen, P. (2011). Livestock and climate change. ILRI (International
Livestock Research Institute). Livestock exchange Issue Brief 3.
FAO
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Shawntel Ervin
Xiufen
(Sophia) Li
18
18
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Kyle Parmley
2, 18, 20
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Camron Nisly
8-18
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Rubin, E. S., R. N. Cooper, R. A. Frosch, T. H. Lee, G. Marland, A. H. Rosenfeld, and D. D. Stine.
1992. Realistic mitigation options for global warming. Sci. 257:148-149, 261–265.
Koneswaran, G. and D. Nierenberg. 2008. Global Farm Animal Production and Global Warming:
Impacting and Mitigating Climate Change. Environ. Health Perspect. 116:578–582.
Steinfeld, H., P. Gerber, T. Wassenaar, V. Castel, M. Rosales, C. de Haan. 2006. Livestock’s Long
Shadow: Environmental Issues and Options. Rome:Food and Agriculture Organization of the
United Nations.
Paustian, K., M. Antle, J. Sheehan, and P. Eldor. 2006. Agriculture’s Role in Greenhouse Gas
Mitigation. Washington, DC: Pew Center on Global Climate Change
Johnson and Johnson (1995)
McAllister et al. (1996)
Johnson and Ward (1996)
Vries and Boer (2009)
"Climate Change and Animal Agriculture: The Facts." Climate Change and Animal Agriculture: The Facts.
American Meat Institute, Aug. 2009. Web. 28 Jan. 2014.
"Fight Global Warming by Going Vegetarian." PETA Fight Global Warming by Going Vegetarian
Comments. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, n.d. Web. 27 Jan. 2014.
Koneswaran, Gowri, and Danielle Nierenberg. "Abstract." National Center for Biotechnology Information.
U.S. National Library of Medicine, 31 Jan. 2008. Web. 28 Jan. 2014.
Powers, Crystal A. "Sources of Greenhouse Gases." - EXtension. EXtension, n.d. Web. 28 Jan. 2014.
"The Role of Livestock in Climate Change." Livestock, Environment and Development: Climate Change.
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, n.d. Web. 28 Jan. 2014.
Stephen
Stanphill
18, 25-30
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Brandon
Burgess
2,
1/3*
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Koneswaran, Gowr & Nierenberg, Danielle. Global Farm Animal Production and Global Warming
Impacting and Mitigating Climate Change.
Environ Health Perspect. 2008 May; 116(5): 578–582. Published online 2008 January 31. doi:
10.1289/ehp.11034 PMCID: PMC2367646 Commentary
FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations) Livestock a Major Threat to the
Environment: Remedies Urgently Needed. 2006.
Gerber, Pierre. 2007. Livestock’s Long Shadow. Methane to Markets Partnership Expo.
Moss, A. R., Jouany, J., Newbold, J. (2000) Methane production by ruminants: its contribution to global
warming. Ann. Zootech. 49 (3) 231-253 (2000)
Johnson, K. A., Johnson, D. E. (1995) Methane emissions from cattle. J ANIM SCI August 1995 (vol. 73)
no. 8 2483-2492
* A third of 10.2 million tons of methane is due to livestock