Just a follow up.
Turns out the lawsuit was filed by the AG who is up for re-election. Typical for the land of fruits and nuts.
And if anyone feels they want to start a global warming thread, please fire away.
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Originally Posted by kutulu
Nice try, but mostly wrong. On a ton for ton basis, yes, the CO2 equivalent for methane is 21 (one ton of methane is worth 21 tons CO2). However, the amount of methane generated via livestock is negligible to the amount of CO2 generated just from vehicle exhaust, let alone total fossil fuel usage.
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A new study in Canada found about 20 different ways to reduce methane and nitrous oxide emissions from livestock—each of them capable of cutting these emissions by one-third. North America has more than 100 million cattle, hundreds of millions of hogs and feeder pigs, and more than 2 billion chickens, together emitting billions of tons of CO2 equivalent greenhouse gasses every year.
The Canadian authors, Karin Wittinberg and Dinah Boadi of the University of Manitoba, say that such methane reduction strategies should be a top priority in any greenhouse gas reduction effort.
Methane is 13% of the greenhouse gasses produced, thats 13% by volume but 21X more potent. The biggest emmiters are land fills, natural gas, and animal digestion. Wouldn't it make sense to start with these systems being you get the most 'bang' for your buck?