Globalno zagrevanje

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On 15.12.2019. at 5:57, Indy said:

Preporučujem (besplatno!) Online kurs koji daje Prof. M. Mann (Penn State University). Sve što vam treba je prosečan engleski.

 

Climate Change: The Science and Global Impact

We need to understand the science behind global warming to avoid the most damaging and irreversible climate change impacts on people and planet.

 

stvarno odlican i za preporuku!

 

[Gojko & Stojko]

Good on ya CSIRO!

 

In a breakthrough in the war on climate change, CSIRO is on the cusp of commercialising a seaweed product, which when sprinkled into feed, makes cattle grow faster and cuts their greenhouse gas emissions to near zero.

 

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[Indy]

Meni taj link udara u paywall, ali ovde ima detaljnih informacija: https://research.csiro.au/futurefeed/faq/

[Gojko & Stojko]

7 minutes ago, Indy said:

Meni taj link udara u paywall, ali ovde ima detaljnih informacija: https://research.csiro.au/futurefeed/faq/

Ah, OK, ni ja nemam pretplatu  za AFR, upravo sam čitao u novinama u kuhinji na posluu i potražio članak da ga stavim ovde, nisam imao problema da ga otvorim. Evo ga ceo (fali slika Roba Kinlija sa kaubojskim šeširom među kravama):

 

CSIRO seeks investors for super-seaweed fix to cattle emissions

In a breakthrough in the war on climate change, CSIRO is on the cusp of commercialising a seaweed product, which when sprinkled into feed, makes cattle grow faster and cuts their greenhouse gas emissions to near zero.

 

The super seaweed carries with it the potential to make the under-fire livestock industry carbon-neutral well before 2050, while also helping to feed a growing global population using less resources.

 

CSIRO is weeks away from releasing a prospectus as it seeks big investors in an internationally significant discovery that cancels out methane emissions from cattle, and, as a bonus, has the waste in digestion – normally associated with burps and farts – converted into faster growth rates.

 

The latest trials at a research station south of Townsville give every indication people will be able to go on eating meat and dairy products without causing global warming, and should please even Bill Gates, who has said that if cattle were a country they would sit only behind China and the US in greenhouse gas emissions.

 

The discovery and imminent commercialisation has attracted the attention of international companies and billionaires in and outside the cattle and dairy industries.

 

CSIRO research director Michael Battaglia said this had also led to companies in Australia, New Zealand, the US, Europe and south-east Asia moving to grow a red seaweed called asparagopsis, in anticipation of the heavy demand.

 

Two varieties of asparagopsis are commonly found in Australian waters; it is also known to occur off other continents.

 

CSIRO and its project partners Meat & Livestock Australia and James Cook University own the intellectual property rights to its use as a feed supplement for livestock and are now in line for huge royalties.

 

Only tiny amounts, less than one per cent of the total feed, are needed to dramatically reduce emissions of methane, a greenhouse gas 28 times more powerful than carbon dioxide.

 

The seaweed additive has been shown to work on cattle in feedlots and dairies, which would apply to about 2.6 million head in Australia. The next big challenge will be to find a way to apply it on farms and stations where cattle graze over vast areas.

 

Cattle producers are eying a premium in marketing emission-free meat and could also find themselves reaping a windfall through the emissions reduction fund.

Mr Battaglia said CSIRO was still going through the approval process on how it would approach the market, but expected to release a prospectus this month as it looked for the investment needed for Australian and global supply chains.

 

CSIRO is setting up a commercialisation vehicle and Andrew Gatenby, an executive director at unlisted unit trust AgFood Fund and principal at Indigo Agriculture, will be the acting chief executive while Future Feed Pty Ltd is being set up.

 

It is understood Future Feed will seek multiple capital injections in the range of $10 million to $15 million from strategic investors and take a favourable view on Australian backing.

 

Mr Battaglia said the company was likely to manage the licences and the quality assurance around the product, which will be grown in seaweed farms before being turned in a totally natural feed additive.

Clock ticking

“It (the company) is probably going to look initially at some aggregation activities to make sure it sets off and starts all right,” he said.

 

“We’ve got a clock ticking for us. Under our commercialisation agreement, we want to try to get first product into the market within a two-year time frame."

 

Mr Battaglia said it would be small-scale but within five years would be taken up in a big way across the sector. "We would hope to see 10-30 per cent penetration into the Australian feedlot markets, possibly similar overseas," he said.

 

“Dairy is starting to come along, possibly a little bit behind, but again we anticipate those levels of market penetration.

 

“Just because why wouldn’t they? It’s going to increase production, it’s going to overcome social licence to operate issues. It’s going to potentially generate, at least for early movers, a carbon benefit in the market.”

 

The work on seaweed by the CSIRO, Meat & Livestock Australia and James Cook University was kickstarted with funding under the Filling the Research Gap program introduced in 2012 when the then Gillard government introduced Australia’s first carbon tax.

 

The results are being finalised for the most recent trial concluded last year at CSIRO’s Lansdown Research Station, but they are built on already amazing results in the laboratory and in sheep.

 

Over the 100-day trial, cattle with the seaweed added into their feed grew 20 per cent faster on average than those not given the additive. The CSIRO team detected no greenhouse gas emissions from cattle on the most concentrated level of the bioactive ingredient in asparagopsis that prevents the formation of methane by inhibiting a specific enzyme in the gut.

 

Independent research on dairy cattle by Penn State University in the US found methane emissions were cut by 80 per cent with no loss in milk production when asparagopsis was added as 0.5 per cent of total feed. The Penn State researchers also noted a potential gain in feed efficiency, or same milk production for less feed.

 

Mr Battaglia said the Australian researchers used asparagopsis with a higher concentration of the relevant bioactive ingredient. He expects growing and harvesting aimed at maximising that ingredient to be a focus of seaweed farming enterprises already springing up in Tasmania, Sweden, Vietnam and California.

 

Farming of seaweed is not uncommon, and Blue Ocean Barns, which grows seaweed off San Diego, and Sweden’s Volta Greentech have both signalled commercial-scale production of asparagopsis.

 

CSIRO estimates millions of tonnes of asparagopsis could eventually be required by a worldwide market.

 

It is understood global cattle and dairy giants are monitoring the seaweed research and commercialisation opportunities closely along with big operators in the Australian cattle industry.

 

Gina Rinehart's Hancock Prospecting is the biggest business in Australian cattle but declined to comment. UK billionaire Joe Lewis is a major shareholder in AACo and Andrew Forrest owns cattle stations, an abattoir and is building a $50 million feedlot.

 

Mr Forrest has been snapping up mussel and oyster aquaculture businesses in Western Australia through his private company Minderoo’s agriculture arm Harvest Road and is developing a big oyster farm in the Shark Bay Marine Park.

 

The iron ore billionaire said that part of the reason he had invested another $243 million to boost his stake in Fortescue Metals Groups to 36 per cent was its commitment to carbon neutrality and investment in “practical initiatives that reduce or eliminate emissions”.

 

“Over the past four years, I have taken the time to thoroughly research ocean ecosystems, pollution and the dangerous warming of our oceans, due to climate change,” he said in a statement.

 

A Minderoo spokesman declined to comment on whether it would invest in seaweed production as a way to reduce methane emissions in cattle.

 

However, it is understood Mr Forrest is exploring options in related sustainable agri-food production.

 

Livestock systems scientist Rob Kinley, who played a lead role in the research, said growing seaweed was a great way to clean water, including that used in other aquaculture projects.

 

"It can be done using local labour and low-skilled labour, and done in such a way to improve the environment while it is growing and then used as a product to improve the environmental footprint of agriculture and put money into the pockets of low-margin cattle producers," Dr Kinley said.

 

SaE

[iDemo]

Michael Moore Presents: Planet of the Humans | Full Documentary | Directed by Jeff Gibbs

 

 

[iDemo]

Je*ena #jeza... 

[iDemo]

Apsolutno nisam neki fan al' je ovaj film izuvanje i istresanje iz gaca... Ne znam sa kojiim ciljem (osim ovoga sto se vidi ocima) - al' dobro.

Michael Moore, filmmakers respond to criticism of new bombshell environmental film

 

 

[I*m with the pilots]

(Nisam citala, samo prenosim)

Klima101: 4 stvari koje su pogrešne u filmu Planet of the Humans

 

Edited April 30, 2020 by I*m with the pilots

[Ras]

On 29.4.2020. at 10:58, iDemo said:

Michael Moore Presents: Planet of the Humans | Full Documentary | Directed by Jeff Gibbs

 

 

Kraj sa majmunom je toliko potresan da mi je loše.

[Ras]

On 30.4.2020. at 13:22, I*m with the pilots said:

(Nisam citala, samo prenosim)

Klima101: 4 stvari koje su pogrešne u filmu Planet of the Humans

 

 Dobro je sagledati stvari iz različitih uglova, ali ovaj tekst suštinski ne osporava teze iz filma. Govore o napretku u efikasnosti u eksploataciji energije vetra i sunca, što svakako nije suština. Saglasni su da se eksploatacija drveća ne može smatrati biobnovljivom.

[iDemo]

13 hours ago, Ras said:

Kraj sa majmunom je toliko potresan da mi je loše.

Meni je njega (MM) teshko gledati od 'pocetka' i sasvim mi je jasno da on ima svoju agendu - to je sve dato™. Meni je muka pripala dok sam gledao ove likove koji su svi 'borci za nashu stvar' a zapravo trpaju i sebi poslovnim partnetima zelene dolare i u nos i u ljubicu bez da trepnu... 

[iDemo]

13 hours ago, Ras said:

ovaj tekst suštinski ne osporava teze iz filma

Trenutno je vrlo velika guzva u redu onih koji cekaju da pokusaju da ospore... 

 

Meni je (za sada) najsurovije sto se po filmu - izmedju ostalih - posr@o i onaj sto je napravi 'Gasland'.

2020/05/02
Filmmaker Josh Fox responds to Michael Moore on bombshell climate film

 

[I*m with the pilots]

On 29.4.2020. at 10:58, iDemo said:

Michael Moore Presents: Planet of the Humans | Full Documentary | Directed by Jeff Gibbs

 

 

 

Taman htela uvece da pogledam film, kad - nema ga vise.

 

Quote

EP Moore and writer-producer Gibbs told Deadline they discovered today that their film, which has racked more than 8.3 million views in a month-plus, was taken down from YouTube after a copyright claim was lodged against the documentary over four seconds of footage it contains.

https://deadline.com/2020/05/planet-of-the-humans-pulled-youtube-michael-moore-jeff-gibbs-censorship-1202942938/

[Indy]

Imaš na piratebay.

[vememah]

Neće da se ugradi u poruku, ali meni pušta s ovog linka:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsbYEOQTM9g

Edited May 26, 2020 by vememah