Of cow farts and climate change. APFactCheck looks at bovine belches and other gaseous emissions that contribute to global warming.
FILE - In this May 8, 2018, filephoto, a Jersey cow feeds in a field on the Francis Thicke organic dairy farm in Fairfield, Iowa. Let’s clear the air about cow farts. In the climate-change debate, some policy makers seem to be bovine flatulence deniers. This became apparent in the fuss over the Green New Deal put forward by some liberal Democrats. More precisely, the fuss over an information sheet issued by the plan’s advocates.
The Associated Press surveyed global experts on global warming on this question, as well as an author who wroteTHE FACTS: Cows fart. That contributes to global warming. But cow burps are worse for the climate. “Ruminants are a significant source of methane,” which traps more heat than carbon dioxide but doesn’t last as long in the air, said Kristie Ebi, director of the Center for Health and the Global Environment at the University of Washington in Seattle. “The belches have to do with digesting their food” in the stomach compartments, not intestines, and that fermentation produces methane.
And she tweeted in March: “I also fly & use A/C. Living in the world as it is isn’t an argument against working towards a better future. The Green New Deal is about putting a LOT of people to work in developing new technologies, building new infrastructure, and getting us to 100% renewable energy.” “It’s a form of mockery,” said Anthony Leiserowitz, director of the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication. “They’re trying to whip up their own base’s opposition to any kind of action.”
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