I found Somalia's CO2 production per year with data up to 1995, then added 100 metric tons per year. Their main economic production is farm animals, I assumed they had goats, who produce about 23 m3/yr of methane. Methane has a GWP of 12, CO2 has a GWP of 1. I found the area of Somalia and the percentage of the area that is wild pasture lands and cut it in half, assumed 5 goats per acre, and assumed a growth of 100 km2 of pasture land used for goat herding. The GWP of the country is contributed to more by their pastured animals than by the CO2 sources.
I don't know how many pirates are in Somalia, but a loss of 3 will probably be made up pretty quick.
This is the supporting chart that was originally sent to the Kansas Board of Education.
Sources:
http://www.inra.fr/productions-animales/spip.php?page=en-article&id_article=332
http://www.studentsoftheworld.info/country_information.php?Pays=SOM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Somalia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somalia#Economy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somalia#Economy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_warming_potential
http://ipcc-wg1.ucar.edu/wg1/Report/AR4WG1_Print_Ch02.pdf
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Flying spaghetthi monster. Haha! That's a new one to me... hilarious.
ReplyDeleteYou gotta see 'Religulous'. Great flick!
Speak of raising farm animals, this week I moderated a government workshop that partly dealt with extracting methane from manure and from landfills and using that to either generate electricity on site or to clean up the gas and inject it into a natural gas pipeline. Check this out: http://www.energy.ca.gov/2009_energypolicy/documents/2009-04-21_workshop/presentations/07-Dusault_Sustainable_Conservation_Biomethane_presentation.pdf
ReplyDeleteI do need to see that movie!
ReplyDeleteI looked at that slide show, it's too bad that most of the existing biogas plants have gotten shut down. I think that biogas collection is a great idea.