"Groups representing the #livestock industry, which is responsible for around 32% of global #methane emissions, want to increase their use of a new way of measuring these emissions that lets high polluters evade their responsibility to make big emissions cuts."
If we are going to drink dairy milk and eat cheese, make it goat! It's closer to human milk when it comes to digestibility, and has less lactose.
"For their body size, goats are slightly more efficient than cows; it takes less feed for a dairy goat to produce a gallon of milk than it does for a cow to produce a gallon of milk. For every 70 pounds of dairy ration fed to the average goat, she will produce one more gallon of milk than the average cow."
"Goats stand out in climate change scenarios due to their higher capacity to convert some feed sources into milk and meat more effectively than other farm animals and their ability to continue production in changing climatic conditions. Furthermore, the goat industry's most important feature is that the #methane emissions released during the production processes are lower than those of other domesticated ruminants per unit of body weight (FAO, 2017, Pragna et al., 2018)."
🍚🌾 Rice farming produces 12% of global methane emissions. That's more than 30 times as potent as CO2! But there are ways to reduce this impact, such as using rice straw for paper or MDF, or using machines that mulch the field instead of burning or flooding it. #rice#methane#innovationhttps://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-04020-3
Sounds a lot like how #BigPharma manipulated the medical community into hooking the world on opioids, resulting in an unsolved global mass crisis killing untold millions but in this case #BigOil is hooking builders & homeowners on planet heating #Methane. They need to be stopped.
This is like having an overweight population and banning weighing scales.
"Written into a must-pass spending bill the House approved in November, the provision prevents the government from funding a law that requires big #livestock farms to report how much #methane their operations emit. Every spending bill Congress has passed in the last 14 years has contained similar disabling language."
A new study has shown a number of academic papers have made misleading claims regarding #methane emissions and pollution from the animal agriculture industry.
Published in Environmental Research Letters, the article points out that these so-called "climate neutral" claims are too good to be true. The study found that an alternative method of quantifying the impact of methane emissions (GWP100 vs. GWP*) has led to a number of industry-friendly findings that the livestock sector seems to be using to claim climate neutrality as they continue to pollute the planet.
TPDS: Methane: possible tipping points or surprises
Euan Nisbet: Global #Methane - is methane telling us that climate warming feedbacks have already driven us over a #termination-scale tipping point?
Sara Knox: Network science: unlocking novel insights on regional & global methane cycling. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJlyBVT-OJg
Gabrielle Kleber | Glaciologist’s Perspective on the Importance of 1.5°C: PhD research investigated methane emissions from groundwaters that are released as glaciers retreat. -helped identify a positive feedback loop that’s currently not considered in climate models https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qp796V0H8g8#Methane#Feedback
#Africa’s #Hunger Crisis Deepens as War, Climate Pile on Pain
"The region of 1.2 billion people, which is home to many of the world’s poorest communities, suffered badly as food and fuel prices surged following Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine. Its farmers have also been battered by #ExtremeWeather events, including droughts and flooding linked to #ClimateChange, further pressuring prices by disrupting food supplies."
"#Food production is highly vulnerable to the effects of the #climate crisis, with research suggesting that as much as a third of global food could be at risk from global heating.
The targets include:
reducing #methane emissions from #livestock by 25%;
ensuring all the world’s #fisheries are sustainably managed;
safe and affordable drinking #water for all;
halving #FoodWaste;
eliminating the use of traditional biomass for cooking.
All by 2030.
"It's not as if we have to find the big #CO2 emitters; we already know where they are. Unlike #methane, which is fugitive - it shows up in places and at times you don't necessarily expect - we know where the large #PowerPlants 🏭 are in the world; we know where the aluminium smelters are. So, this is more about being able to verify 🛰️ #emissions." https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-64473574