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I keep seeing this and I don't understand it because it literally doesn't matter. There is a total amount of emissions in a year and it leads to a certain amou
by samatman 6y ago
I keep seeing this and I don't understand it because it literally doesn't matter.
There is a total amount of emissions in a year and it leads to a certain amount of atmospheric forcing.
Let's say the algae food amendment works out and cattle methane can be eliminated with it. Some cattle are completely pastured, let's say you can get a 70% reduction in total methane emission from cows, just mandate that lot-fed cattle must receive this feed amendment and maybe subsidize it.
That's huge. That reduces a big source of emissions. It's less atmospheric forcing in total for the year. That's the only thing that matters.
It's an open-and-shut scenario for "shut up and calculate".