Are prairie farmers Really Sequestering more Carbon than they Emit ??

[checking]

"Maybe the Chinese realize that things need to change and are doing something about it." foragefarmer

You mean like constructing another 363 coal fired plants during this year.

[blackpowder]

The whole ***g point is, the Chinese are cleaning up their own damn way. Without slowing down their pursuits. When will the unwashed koolaid lovers in NA get that.

[foragefarmer]

CO2 emissions (metric tons per capita)[4]


1980 1985 1990 1995 2000 2005 2010 2011 2012 2013


Canada 18.0 16.3 15.7 15.9 17.4 17.1 14.5 14.5 13.9 13.5
Us 20.8 18.9 19.3 19.3 20.2 19.6 17.5 17.0 16.3 16.4
China 1.5 1.9 2.2 2.8 2.7 4.4 6.6 7.2 7.4 7.6


China has a ways to go before catching up with Canada and the US. I noticed that China's emissions have been increasing and NA is decreasing , is there a correlation between that and NA companies moving production to China? Or, could it be that China needs to keep building coal power plants to keep up with NA demand for their cheap products? Maybe the Chinese standard of living is moving up and there are more cars?


Or could NA emissions be going down because we are using less coal? Would SK fall into that category? Just asking those of you on Agriville who are from SK.

[sumdumguy]

Lots of snow and winter out east and in Victoria too. Too bad.

[blackpowder]

Chinas winning the only race that matters.

[tweety]

So is it confirmed? No one knows of a single complete study about how much we sequester vs produce of CO2 and NOx?

[mcfarms]

tweety

here
[URL="https://coolfarmtool.org/"]https://coolfarmtool.org/[/URL]
or this
[URL="http://www.publish.csiro.au/an/AN15386"]http://www.publish.csiro.au/an/AN15386[/URL]

this is also going on

[URL="http://sustainablecrops.ca/projects"]http://sustainablecrops.ca/projects[/URL]

[tweety]

Great sites, but they don't answer the question.

[checking]

You are not getting it, tweety.

No government, and especially the UN agency on climate change, and their sucked in self proclaimed environmentalist supporters (including farmers on this site) are ever going to say that you sequester any CO2. They will never acknowledge that an equation exists.

You are a producer of CO2, so get use to paying a carbon tax

[sumdumguy]

I doubt very much if all on this site are farmers, just saying.

[Hamloc]

My only thought is this, just got my January natural gas bill and it had 53 dollars of carbon tax for one month. Heat my one shop with a tube heater, small shop 36x40, keep it at 10' C. Other shop is 48x60 R50 ceiling, R28 walls and a 1300 sq. foot bungalow R20 walls R 40 ceiling. Shop has the latest resnor heater supposed fairly efficient. Not planning to change what I am doing just going to pay the bill and know it is a waste of money going to the government. Can debate soil sequestration all you want, the supposedly enlightened envirnuggets on here will lecture us ludites all day and tell us how terrible we are but the fact remains the global alarmists are anti capitalists that want to lower everyone in the western world's standard of living. Just picked a buddy up from detox so this big debate on coal and taxes seems somewhat unimportant shouldn't have commented.

[tweety]

You are not getting it, tweety.

No government, and especially the UN agency on climate change, and their sucked in self proclaimed environmentalist supporters (including farmers on this site) are ever going to say that you sequester any CO2. They will never acknowledge that an equation exists.

You are a producer of CO2, so get use to paying a carbon tax

Don't care what they think. I want to know.

There is a carbon tax, i won't change that. Nothing to get used to, just pay it.

So are farmers emitting more than they sequester?