American ranchers and U.S. meat consumption have virtually no impact on greenhouse gas emissions or climate, reports a compelling new climate summary. The new climate summary, “Climate at a Glance: Livestock and Methane,” documents that cattle and beef account for just 2% of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions. All livestock combined account for less than 4% of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions.
Climate activists, many of whom are vegans for other reasons, often claim that ranchers, livestock, and meat production are a leading cause of rising greenhouse gas emissions and climate change. Yet, EPA data show crop production accounts for more greenhouse gas emissions than total livestock production.
The Climate at a Glance portal provides more than two dozen concise, compelling summaries of topics related to climate change. Bullet-points at the top of each summary provide an easily understandable summary of the topic. A Short Summary section under the bullet-points provides a concise, supporting explanation with links to scientific evidence. Most summaries also include a compelling visual graphic.
James, the real effect of cattle is much less than that see …….. http://bit.ly/2TgPMLA the url is for Google! or a longer url
https://www.nzipim.co.nz/Folder?Action=View%20File&Folder_id=120&File=The%20Journal%20September%202018.pdf
Cheers,
Jock
Call Cargill back and tell them to nevermind, the cows are safe again.
Please study this to further refute the cow-fart apocalypse.
even IF beef farts was the cause of increased methane emissions….how many cows do we have now VS the historic herds of bison that stretched for days across the US plains, the millions of deer and elk that are now only ~100,000 and managed.
It seems historically, there must have been way more wildlife with similar feed & emissions vs the current population of domestic stock.
Remember, before the white man ventured into the “Great American Desert”, the American Bison herd stretched from Canada to Mexico. There were tens of millions of them eating the plain’s grasses and producing untold amounts of greenhouse gas. The white man’s invasion and the decimation of the bison herds nearly caused the extinction, but it also reduced their greenhouse emissions to near-zero. There was NOT a simultaneous cooling from this reduction. And now they want to ban cattle and other livestock production because of their emissions–emissions that have the same zero effect on climate.
Gimme a break!
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