How relevant are cow farts in global warming? is there a percent figure? as in cows contribute x% of gas emissions
Scientist discovers particular seaweed nearly eliminates cow methane emissions
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#12How relevant are cow farts in global warming? is there a percent figure? as in cows contribute x% of gas emissions
16.5% of methane emissions, give or take. If you could further apply this to all livestock, it's around 30%.
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#13How relevant are cow farts in global warming? is there a percent figure? as in cows contribute x% of gas emissions
Here are couple of articles about it.
http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2014/04/11/301794415/gas...
http://timeforchange.org/are-cows-cause-of-global-warming-me...
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#14But can the seaweed prevent an undersea methane hydrate apocalypse?
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#15Segment on Cow Farts from the latest Climate Change video by National Geographic starring Leonardo Di Caprio:
https://youtu.be/IxGOQDiWImA?t=49m31s
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#16How relevant are cow farts in global warming? is there a percent figure? as in cows contribute x% of gas emissions
With deforestation to make cow farms and methane released, its estimated at 18-30%.
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#17There probably isn't an incentive to reduce methane emissions for farmers right now though, right? We'd have to pass regulations mandating a reduction, or an emissions tax or something.
No, and that's not going to happen soon. But companies can start marketing their products as carbon neutral and selling them at a premium at retailers like Whole Foods.
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#18There probably isn't an incentive to reduce methane emissions for farmers right now though, right? We'd have to pass regulations mandating a reduction, or an emissions tax or something.
It's an interesting puzzle as to how you'd monitor something like that for a global warming tax. Random cow inspections? Some kind of satellite thing?
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#19Not just for Bovines, for humans too, Seaweed can come to rescue:
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#20Can eating seaweed make human farts smell less offensive?