Journal of Environmental Science and Engineering B 8 (2019) 223-229 doi:10.17265/2162-5263/2019.06.003 Impacts of Stockbreeding on Global Warming Murat DURMUŞ and Nazan KOLUMAN Departement of Animal Science, Çukurova Üniversity, Faculty of Agriculture, Adana 01330, Turkey Abstract: The climate change is globally faced by the entire world and humanity with considerably negative impacts on people who live in undeveloped countries in terms of improvement and fighting poverty and who make production by using natural resources. The United Nations Development Fund prepared a Human Development Report on “Fighting Climate Change,” indicating that there are almost 2.6 million poor people in the world will bear the brunt of climate change and ecological conditions. In this respect, emphasis must also be put on the need for considering the people whose source of income usually originates from animal production. In this sense, climate change poses an obstacle on success of the work which is conducted to achieve millennium development goals. The observable changes emerging in climate particularly increases in atmosphere temperature in some regions have an impact on biological life in many regions of the world. Animal production has been considerably intensified in order to meet animal protein deficit which is suffered by the increasing population. The impacts of conventional applications aimed at increasing productivity in animal production have been negative and the people’s attention has started to focus on animal production with the global warming concept and Kyoto Protocol. The animal production might create negative effects on many aspects of environment such as air and water pollution, decrease in soil quality and biodiversity, as well as climate change. The aim of this paper to evaluate animal farming impacts on global warming. Key words: Stockbreeding, climate, global warming, greenhouse gases. 1. Introduction The global warming and climate change are mainly caused by 3 gases, namely, carbon dioxide (CO 2 ), methane (CH 4 ) and dinitrous oxide (N 2 O). Moreover, the increased water vapor level in the atmosphere is another factor contributing to global warming. In addition to these gases, it’s known that gases with chlorofluorocarbon which have been commonly used in the industry in the past also make considerable contribution. These gases which are naturally produced have no harmful effect. On the contrary, their presence in the atmosphere in normal limits contribute to holding some heat moving away from the earth and establishing the atmospheric conditions ensuring the continuation of life in the earth. However, the high-level release of these gases cause an increase in rational shares on this layer and thus keeps the long- and short-wave infrared rays from the sun on a higher level. It’s reported that considering the effects Corresponding author: Murat Durmuş, Ph.D., main research field: animal science and small ruminant breeding of global warming and assuming the CO 2 effect as 1, 1 ton of methane corresponds to the effect of 23 tons of CO 2 , whereas 1 ton of N 2 O equals the effect of 296 tons of CO 2 [1]. The intensive emergence of mentioned gases, particularly methane, as a result of agricultural activities, caused people’s attention to focus on this issue in the course of Kyoto Protocol. 2. Carbon Dioxide Emission The CO 2 is a greenhouse gas which is available in the atmosphere on the highest level and to which importance should be attached. The increasing CO 2 level in the atmosphere which has been evident in the last 250 years was caused by rapid decreases in forest lands and intensive use of fossil fuels. The CO 2 emission mainly results from the tendency of rapid industrialization which has started in 1970s. The CO 2 is a greenhouse gas which is available in the atmosphere on the highest level and to which importance should be attached. The IPCC (2007) reported that the CO 2 concentration which was 280 ppm in 1750 had reached 379 ppm in 2005 with an D DAVID PUBLISHING