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Meat and dairy production emit more nitrogen than Earth can cope with
- Proven 6y agoSorry guys, but after decades of fake news alarmist climate scientists aren't exactly considered trustworthy people. I will ignore this warning.
- gus_massa 6y ago> One shortcoming of the research is how it treats dinitrogen (N2), which was excluded from the analysis of nitrogen emissions, Sutton says. What is the problem with N2??? Most of the atmosphere is N2 and most of the Nitrogen in fertilizers is extracted from the N2, so it's a closed cycle. (Other form of nitrogen can cause problems, like algae booms, and other nasty stuff, but can't imagine how N2 can be a problem.)
- csense 6y agoLast time I checked, about 70% of the Earth's atmosphere is nitrogen. "Nitrogen pollution" sure sounds like fake news to me.
- gus_massa 6y agoIt is very difficult to transform N2 to a molecule that is biological useful, only some bacteria can do it (some live in special nodules in the roots of some plants) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitrogen_fixation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitrogen_fixation and there are some artificial process to do it (mostly to make fertilizer and explosives) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haber_process https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haber_process . An excess of fertilizers (directly from plants or from the mature) can produce problems https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algal_bloom https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algal_bloom (Anyway, that sentence about N2 is very weird.)
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