What’s really warming the planet. The IPCC is using different models to calculate the emissions from fossil fuels and animal agriculture. Gerrard’s research shows, when we use the same model for both, animal agriculture becomes the biggest driver of global heating.

https://www.planetcritical.com/p/gerard-wedderburn-bisshop

by The_Weekend_Baker

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  2. people like Donnie King of Tyson chicken have done a great job of deflecting the blame elsewhere. They are even worse than the oil and gas lizard ‘people’

  3. I don’t like how this study seems to overindex on short-term cooling forces (which the authors do mention is a concern with the method used here), but farming is slightly greater than the impact of fossil fuels even when those are omitted

  4. Possibly stupid q’s: 

    1) Do modelers account for the likelihood that point source emitters, on average, understate their emissions? 

    2) Follow up – What about illegal flare offs and similar emissions? 

    3) If all emissions happened only over one country, how would that look globally? So how does concentration of GHGs impact climate trends? 

  5. So *even less likely* we’ll make changes to slow it.

  6. So eliminate about 4 Billion people and that will also reduce the food supply needed. Is that the GOP MAGA’s plan

  7. As far as I know (please someone correct me if this has changed) climate models use net vs gross emissions because the biosphere is assumed to be something humans didn’t solely create.

  8. There’s nothing new here. We’ve known for a long time that the biggest problem is meat as much or more than fossil fuels. 75% of all corn produced is eaten by animals for slaughter. It’s 4 dollars a TON to just eat it yourself! It costs way more to eat meat and is worse for you and the planet. If we really want to solve this problem we need to sharply curtail meat consumption, reforest the world and ban new fossil fuels production. If we do all of that we might be able to stop climate change but I wouldn’t hold my breath

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