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Your link mentions how it's all about whether or not you count the CO2 from cattle respiration. They say cattle respiration should not be counted because what
by arnoooooo 8y ago
Your link mentions how it's all about whether or not you count the CO2 from cattle respiration.
They say cattle respiration should not be counted because what CO2 comes from cattle respiration would have come from soil respiration.
But it seems to me that the two operate on vastly different timescales : according to wikipedia, "Carbon stored in soil can remain there for up to thousands of years before being washed into rivers by erosion or released into the atmosphere through soil respiration."
So it would seem to make sense to count cattle respiration as added CO2.
- kaybe 8y agoThe issue is not the CO2 but the methane that cattle produce during digestion. While its lifetime is shorter than that of CO2, its warming potential is 34 times that of CO2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmospheric_methane https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmospheric_methane
- arnoooooo 8y agoThey're both an issue. And methane might have a shorter lifetime than CO2, it degrades as CO2…