Klimaatgekte: IPCC copieerde leugens vegetariers

[Dr. Marc-Alexander Fluks]

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Bron:   Telegraph
Datum:  24 amart 2010
Auteur: Alastair Jamieson
URL:     
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/climatechange/7509978/UN-admits-flaw-in-report-on-meat-and-climate-change.html


UN admits flaw in report on meat and climate change
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The UN has admitted a report linking livestock to global warming
exaggerated the impact of eating meat on climate change.

A 2006 study, Livestock's Long Shadow, claimed meat production was
responsible for 18 per cent of greenhouse gas emissions – more than
transport. Its conclusions were heralded by campaigners urging
consumers to eat less meat to save the planet. Among those calling
for a reduction in global meat consumption is Sir Paul McCartney.

However, one of the authors of the report has admitted an American
scientist has identified a flaw in its comparison with the impact
of transport emissions.

Dr Frank Mitloehner, from the University of California at Davis
(UCD), said meat and milk production generates less greenhouse gas
than most environmentalists claim and that the emissions figures
were calculated differently to the transport figures, resulting in
an 'apples-and-oranges analogy that truly confused the issue'.

The meat figure had been reached by adding all greenhouse-gas
emissions associated with meat production, including fertiliser
production, land clearance, methane emissions and vehicle use on
farms, whereas the transport figure had only included the burning
of fossil fuels.

Pierre Gerber, a policy officer with the UN's Food and Agriculture
Organization, told the BBC he accepted Dr Mitloehner's criticism.
"I must say honestly that he has a point – we factored in everything
for meat emissions, and we didn't do the same thing with transport,"
he said. "But on the rest of the report, I don't think it was really
challenged."

He said a more comprehensive analysis of emissions from food
production was being produced and should be available by the end
of the year.

Dr Mitloehner told a meeting of the American Chemical Society in San
Francisco that producing less meat and milk would only result in
'more hunger in poor countries' and that efforts should be focused
on 'smarter farming, not less farming'.

Earlier this year, the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
apologised after wrongly claiming the Himalayan glaciers could vanish
within 25 years.

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(c) 2010 Telegraph Media Group Limited

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