1. AGRICULTURE: GLOBAL WARMING’S VICTIM CAUSE AND SOLUTION

2. Agriculture: Global Warming Victim

4. This depiction of linear trends in the Palmer Drought Severity Index from 1948 to 2002 shows drying (reds and pinks) across much of Canada, Europe, Asia, and Africa and moistening (green) across parts of the United States, Argentina, Scandinavia, and western Australia. (Illustration courtesy Aiguo Dai and the American Meteorological Society .)

9. GLOBAL CROP PRODUCTION REVIEW, 2005 Prepared by USDA’s Joint Agricultural Weather Facility

13. Agriculture: Global Warming Cause

23. Agriculture: Global Warming Mitigator

25. Positive Agricultural Practices Practice Effect Conservation or riparian buffers Increased Carbon Storage Conservation Tillage on Cropland Enhance Carbon Sequestration/Reduce Emissions Grazing Land Management Enhance Carbon Sequestration/Reduce Emissions

27. Conservation and Riparian Area Source: Colorado State

32. Activity Sequestration Rate (MT/acre/Yr.) Time Prior to Saturation Reference (EPA) Afforestation 0.6 – 2.6 90 – 120+ years Birdsey 1996 Reforestation 0.3 – 2.1 90 – 120+ years Birdsey 1996 Changes in Forest Mangmt. 0.6 - 0.8 Wood Products Eliminate Saturation Row 1996 Conversion of Riparian Buffers 0.1 – 0.3 Not Calculated Lal et al. 1999 Convert to Reduced Tillage 0.2 – 0.3 15 – 50 years Lal et al. 1999 West; Post 2002 Changes in Grazing Mangmt 0.2 – 0.5 25 – 50 years Follet et al. 2001 Biofuel for Fossil Fuel 1.3 – 1.5 Saturation does not occur Lal et al. 1999